Lane Kiffin
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 1 Oct
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That's fine. But I was so focused on that that it controlled everything. I just slept at the office all week long because we had to win. That's all that matters. Like John Daly used to sleep at a Hooters. Yeah, that was a little different. Yeah, that's true. He didn't work there. It's not like he was, you know, working on chipping and hooters.
Yeah. I think John Daly still goes to Hooters for the John Daly two-hour signing special. I love JD, by the way. He's awesome. He's awesome.
Yes. Yeah. He's got that two-pack.
Okay. Okay. So anyway, so that's where this failure came in because it was like, okay, if you're going to put all, if this is the most important thing to you, then I like look back and shoot, no wonder like I ended up getting divorced. No wonder that, you know, I ended up having a straining relationship with my kids.
And then I kind of figured this out later on and started going, okay, wait, wait, wait a second.
this is just part of who i am you know being a coach and then i started to work on the other areas of my life um got sober from a lot of things really um just not just physical sober like stop drinking but like emotionally sober you know like and that's still a constant battle like working on that like and things not making me go way up way down like every day but and people say okay well what do you do you don't drink like what do you do like thursday and i was like
And what's replaced that is like amazing, like going to dinner with Landry or watch a movie with her friends. Like, you know, like you just, I just had this shift and it really helped me. And actually I'm a better coach out of it, which you wouldn't think would be like, cause you think, okay, well, if you put everything into it.
But then you lose balance and you're just kind of off and everything is so defined on a win or loss that, like, it's everything. I remember, like, losing a really, really important game. And I remember at the time, like, seeing why she's like, and I'm like, I don't want to wake up. We actually lost to USC, we lost to Texas.
We were in our third straight national championship and lost in the Rose Bowl National Championship. Vince Young, couldn't tackle him. And I'm like, I don't wanna wake up tomorrow. She said, what is wrong with you? We had one kid at the time, Landry. And she's like, you have a kid, like you have a whole life. We lost the game, third straight national championship.
How long is it going to take to ever get there again?
But I was just so out of whack on that because that's, I mentioned earlier that the ego had gotten so big when I became a head coach and all the money and success and attention that like it just built and like you got to keep feeding it. And so it's really been cool to get out of that spot. Yeah. And what do you attribute to helping you get out of it? Probably lifestyle change.
You know, I came to Mississippi and decided like, okay, I started eating more food, not working out. Like, and I just was like, man, I'm not the best version of myself. I didn't have this like rock bottom moment, you know, that people have. Sometimes I just was like, man, I don't,
really like this lower version of myself i want to be the highest version of myself so i changed my diet i stopped the alcohol i started working out um and really what i started to do is to pour into other people instead of just pouring into myself dang coach you're making me feel bad about my life bro you You're younger than me. You're still good there.
Like I, that's a daily battle. God boy. And I really got on this after the physical sobriety after a couple of years of, okay, well, okay. I got really healthy working out all the time and don't drink, but it was like, okay. But I still was letting people situations like, man, well that, that went my way. So everything's good. Yeah. You know, like, oh, that didn't go that way.
We lose that recruit or have an argument with this person. And like, everything's terrible. And I was like, man. And I had somebody tell me like, remember the tide goes in and out every day. Like it's going to, and like, do you just get freaked out by that? Or are you just like, Hey, the tide came in, tide went out. And so I really try to do that. Cause like I'll do the yoga.
Everything's good, man. And then I'll come in here and then, this player has this issue, you know, or a kid has this issue, you know, and then it's like, or this doesn't go this way. Especially like, if you're like me, which I feel like you are from your last answer, when somebody doesn't do what you want them to do. Like, wait, everything would be good, man. If he just wouldn't say that.
Sorry, and I'll believe this. If she does this, if he does that, and they do that, I'll be good.
Yes.
Or I did this and then they don't deal. And then they don't act how I want them to act after what I did. Yeah. Haven't I shared with you? Yeah. But there is a major problem that when you become and you're in charge of a company, you're a head coach, you know, like, and all the people are working for you. So your whole day, they really are doing what you want.
And then now in your personal life outside of it, maybe somebody doesn't do what you want and then you lose your mind. That's where I was off with the emotional part. You know, and had to like work on that part. Yeah.
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