Lane Kiffin
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 1 Oct
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where it's different is the old school unfortunately kind of the old school recruiting of the relationships and having a relationship three years since the kid was a sophomore in high school and stuff it's not as important anymore because now i'm like okay well what are you paying me you know the school is this the school is this the school is this and most of them usually go to the higher higher number and is that just a real question out of the gate is what is the offer yeah
wow and do most of them have agents or they have to do that directly by themselves yeah they now it's now just transitioned to where most of them agents oh that's trash it's really you know we're in my office right here so i sit here all the time and the recruits sit over there where your guys are and the parents and i said this to our staff the other day like i've sat in so many of these meetings like whatever say the last hundred
And do you know, I never hear anymore, what's your graduation rate? I never hear anymore, like, what's the academic plan? And it's just kind of sad. These are the parents. It just is what it is. And then I go, okay, well, when's our NIL meeting? Yeah. What's the number? What's the second year number? Like, I'm not mad about it, but it's just kind of sad. Yeah, you just recognize it.
And I'm also recognizing it to say – I don't believe long-term that's good for the kids. So this has been great for players to make some money, but it's so much money and it's so much focus on the money that then it's like, okay, well, then what's next? If I'm already getting the money when I'm 18, then what? Right. You've seen this all the time. People get too much too early, and then what?
They crash. Crash out. Yes, and I feel like we're creating a lot of that in this. And now a kid's sitting there listening to his parents at, you know, they want to know the money. Like, so what's the kid supposed to want to know?
But I'm sure at that time you thought, man, if I just had a million dollars, man, I'd have no problems.
Yeah. Then life would be great. I hear it all the time. These players, I just get money, man. Players, I hear it from adults. I get money, man, on my problems. Then I'll be good. Okay. We'll see. We'll see. When I go in the homes and recruiting over all these years, I see the most problems in the families with the most money. Hmm. Most money, most success.
And then I don't feel any warmth in that room. I don't feel the connection with the kids. Like, and then I'll go to a house here in Mississippi or Louisiana, you know, and there'll be 10 people living in this two bedroom house. And you just feel like the warmth and like the closeness and everything.
And they ain't got hardly anything financially, but then they have this love and this family and, um, I've just done this for a long time, and I see it usually the other way around. The bigger the houses, the more cars, the more money, the more problems.
Hmm. Their minds.
Yeah. Yeah. A lot of them run fast, jump, throw, and it's their minds and then getting in their own way. You know, and then here comes this, now you got money too. Here comes this ego coming in because I'm a five star. I got all these scholarship offers, like the entitlement of that and the ego comes in and out. Now they got the money too. So it's like,
they had this drive to get to the NFL because they want to play in the NFL and they want to get the money. Well, I'm getting the money already. So now that's, now I've lost some drive there. Right. And they just get in their own ways, you know, and they get so much attention so early and so much. And then it's like, they just think it's going to last forever.
And they just like, they just screw it up. So they get in their own ways. Dang. And it's usually that one word ego. Yeah.
Not the animal. I wouldn't say crazy. Like I don't have a good story, like a crazy thing, you know, like, but it just, what continues to blow my mind in nowadays is they want more when they haven't done anything new. Meaning like, okay, here's what I got. I got this to come, you know, to transfer, to come around to high school. And then they come in like, okay, well, I need more.
And they're like, well, you didn't do anything. Like, You didn't have a good year. Well, why, why would you get more? Like, it's just that mindset of like, I just deserve more. Like I deserve more and more because there's no, there's no appreciation in there for where they're at or like, man, I got to play better to get more. Just I'm supposed to get more. And that happens all the time.
There's two transfer portal windows. So like if you could negotiate your contract twice a year, every year, but then, For six months, you haven't done a show. You haven't done anything. But after that six-month period, you want a new contract and a new deal bigger than what you had, but you hadn't done anything. Yeah. Or maybe you screwed the shows up. Right.
Through interceptions, but you still want more. So it's just, and it's not even their fault. There's the parents. Now you got agents. Do you still feel like a coach or do you feel like a banker more? Mm-hmm. it's not really like a banker, but you, you spend so much time not coaching.
And I think that's part of the Nick Saban and, you know, getting out, it's just like, it just changed, you know, because these conversations and these things, and you see the like greed for it, you know, like, but it's, it's a, it's unique because from someone that's been fortunate to make money, have success, get to the highest levels, like,
It's like, I keep trying to tell them like, that's not going to be the answer. Like that new contract, getting that much more money isn't going to change anything. You're not going to, you know, be happier because of, but it's like, they don't. You can't hear it. Yes. Kids can't hear it. Cannot. I can sit in these two chairs right here to some, some, most of them, some will, but most of them.
And they just look at me like, there's no, I'm like, listen to me until you fix these internal problems until you fix how you think that everybody's against you or whatever it is, these issues that they each have. And I'll try to like work through them. I'm like that, that money, that new contract, that next car, that next girl, like that's not going to fix that. And I'm like, what?
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