r/CFB • u/Fonzie5 UCF Knights • Big 12 • 18h ago

News [On3] BREAKING: The SEC has filed a lawsuit against LSU and head football coach Lane Kiffin, @PeteNakos reports.

https://x.com/on3/status/2095555292859646137?s=46&t=FavtrbPsHpJY8Odvh2TYUA
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u/Baiji519 Wofford Terriers 15h ago

I’ve never seen someone who kept failing upward, then torched all that unearned good will to the ground.

Que Kiffin entering some sort of rehab/treatment center by November/December.

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u/eetsumkaus California • 立命館大学 (Ritsumeikan) 9h ago

Those are pretty much the norm though. These people don't know how good they have it until it's too late. They have to be smart and self-aware enough to know they didn't get there on their own merits.

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u/Sargentrock Kentucky Wildcats 6h ago

There's something to be said about the schools that keep getting sucked into this somehow. Dude sold his soul and got his money's worth I guess.

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u/ReverendRodneyKingJr 15h ago

Can you please explain how going from USC HC to Alabama offensive coordinator was failing upward? And how he failed as the Alabama OC? And how he failed as the Ole Miss HC?

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u/Baiji519 Wofford Terriers 15h ago

If Lane wasn’t a nepo baby, no one would put up with his shenanigans.

I never said he was a poor coach. His last name and charm bought him a lot of grace with glazed over his garbage behaviors.

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u/TenMovesAhead Miami Hurricanes • Indiana Hoosiers 12h ago

I think that was right for a long time, through his flame out at USC probably. I disagree post-Bama tho. IMO, his success at Ole Miss was real and his. He did not get that job because he was Monte Kiffin’s son. Let’s not pretend he wasn’t tied to basically everything P4 head coach vacancy from 2018 until he went to ole miss

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u/ReverendRodneyKingJr 14h ago

You didn’t answer any of my 3 questions. You said he failed upwards. Please explain how he’s done that in the last decade of his life

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u/DB_Seedy13 Alabama Crimson Tide 7h ago

He’s a really good coach. Hardly failing upwards. He’s also just a prick

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u/TenMovesAhead Miami Hurricanes • Indiana Hoosiers 12h ago

Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. Lane Kiffin’s problems post-Bama haven’t really been about his coaching ability, they’ve been about basically everything else. He’s a solid coach and potentially elite program builder in 2026. But he’s also the GOAT program destroyer, so…..