Lane Kiffin
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 1 Oct
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Yeah. So my daughter goes to school here. Okay. And she's a sophomore. She's a sophomore. Okay. My other daughter's going to college at USC. And then my son is moving here. He's actually on a spring break here right now. And he's moving here next month. And he's going to go to Oxford high. He is. Nice. Yeah.
and he plays football too or no he does yeah yeah he's um he's quarterback he's got a chance to be good um so that'll be exciting to be able to watch all his games here and he's always up here working out with his buddies so oh that's going to be great just to be around that much that many other players and stuff it's awesome i was my dad was a coach i grew up as a coach's kid that to be around those locker rooms and to be around those players and to learn from them it's it's it's so awesome and so motivating
Yep.
Amazing. So he passed in July. And was he sick? Was he pretty sick at the end of his life? He had dementia. And so he slowed down a lot. But here's what's really cool. You know, just saying like the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. Like we probably have the pain of regret from things we weren't disciplined at in life.
You know, if you look back, man, if I would have done that or like I would have gotten
know made different decisions so now you have the pain of the regret of that yeah well i think a lot of times people with parents sometimes like when they pass you know they have the pain of regret man we should have been around them more i didn't go to see him well my dad worked for me all the way up until then at 84. so all these last three stops he was here in the building helping us coach.
So every day I would see him 15 times a day. And he was such a coach that like, even his doctors would say that was keeping him alive because he could come into the office every day. He was 84 years old with dementia, still coming in the office. And he just was like, he was the ultimate coach, the old school coach. And so I got to be with him every day all the way up.
So because of that, of bringing him to all the places, making sure he was at work every day and everything like-
Yeah, but that's where I've gotten to like, who knows what's supposed to be perfect? What I thought, what we thought as a plan should be, I was like totally off. You know, like I've been like, there's no way I'm going to like want to move to Oxford, Mississippi, have my kid go to college here, have my other kid go to high school here and love it. And now I do.
And who would have thought they would have ever wanted to come here? Like, it's like, you know, God's plan obviously makes a lot more sense than ours. Because every time I take that and I'm like, wait, wait, wait, wait, maybe he wants it. Let me turn that over here.
My way. This is what I want to happen. Like, these people need to do this. I need to go here. I need to get that job. Let me control everything. Yes. Yeah. And then it just doesn't work. It really doesn't. And then when I just, which is hard, when I just let go and just let it go and whatever's going to happen is going to happen. And that tide's going to come in and it's going to go out.
I'll just float along with it.
Told you, the people here are amazing. God, that was great. There's nothing as good as SEC football. Because it's like when the plays work, it's like a video game for me. I feel like I'm playing a video game on the sideline. So think like when you're playing a video game, you throw your controller. That's really what I'm doing. It's still the kid in me right there.
You know, like throw my clipboard like your controller.
Yeah. Yeah. I think that like they can do it. Like these things happen, you know, in life, these major obstacles that seem so horrible at the time, a divorce, firings, maybe you have a health scare, like these things that seem so terrible and they're really not, they just feel like it in the moment and they're going to pass and you're going to actually look back later on and be glad for them.
Like, My kind of major thing was I got fired as a head coach at USC and like my career is over. Well, if that wouldn't happen, I wouldn't have gotten to work for Nick Saban for three years. You know, so like whatever those things are or- Yeah, your career's been over like four times. Yeah, that you can do it. And it's actually-
Feels way better than like, let's say you come out, like I came up and got a lot of breaks because my dad and stuff. And so it's like, OK, I got to the top. OK, well, that felt good. But then to actually have it torn down and all taken away, some by circumstance, some by your own decisions. and rebuild from the bottom personally and professionally, it feels so much better.
It's like instead of buying the house, you build the house from the beginning. And so just for people that are struggling in whatever one of those areas may be, like you can do it, but don't get overwhelmed. Like it really is... One day at a time. Like, hey, just start working out today, you know, or stop drinking today, you know, or start being a better person today. Whatever those areas are.
Yeah, just today. Just today, man. Because the other stuff's overwhelming. We don't know what's going to happen next week or next month or next year. And just be really good at it today.
Zoom out. Yeah. Zoom out. Watching my dad pass in the last couple years of dementia, but also watching him on what was important to him. He'd been a head coach. He'd been fired. He'd been through all these. It didn't matter. Like whatever that is right now that you're struggling with. you're going to look back toward him like, what was I even like losing sleep for or having anxiety about that for?
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