Lane Kiffin
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first heard Apr 2025
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So then at the end, like, I'm like, guess what? We need overtime. Like last week, I'm like, it's March madness. We need an overtime. And everybody's like, no, no overtime. No overtime coach. And I'm like, kick the field goal, coach. We got to get out of here. Yeah, we're making these kids tougher.
Yeah, I would say very different. I looked at social media when I started. It was for recruiting because we weren't able to text. It was a dumb NCAA rule like most of them. You couldn't text them? Could you mail? Yeah, you could DM them. You could...
on twitter you can message them you can message them on twitter but you couldn't text them personally yes made no sense right so that's why it was started and then i just kind of started being a normal person i was like you know i can't be a normal person as a coach in a lot of my life so i was like on social media i'll just be normal and then buddies start sending me stuff i just retweet it or other coaches like in the sec like kirby smart he all the time because he's politically correct so
He's got stuff he wants to put out there, but he's like, they just send it to me because they know I will. So I just kind of embraced it and ran with it.
The reason why I kept going with it was because...
would go into home visits and these parents would say or they'd come into my office like when they're doing a campus tour and they would say to me like coach we feel like we already know you we love your social media i love your twitter i love your instagram like we feel like we already know you and i'm like well shoot how much is that worth that they're already coming to visit us wanting their kid to go here saying we already know you because of it so then i just kept going with it
I would say the Twitter is probably closer to it. You know, people that are around me all the time and stuff say like, what was out there early on, especially about me or what people think really isn't what he is. And you probably hear that a lot, but yeah. So I feel like Twitter is more actually how I am just kind of, okay, that's funny.
I'll just like say that or send that out, you know, like, and so I'm not an old school coach and, many regards at all, just because I think you should always evolve. You should always not do things because it was in a book of how to do it before and always kind of test things. You know, like around here, we say, you know, instead of just thinking outside the box, we create a new box.
We challenge everything, different ways of thinking things. So and social media is part of that because that's not or how I do a press conference or even doing this. probably be some coaches that even if they, if you did call them up for this, they wouldn't do it because it's okay. Well, that's not really the message I want to put out, you know? Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, that should be like a no brainer. That's what I'm thinking in state. I mean, you got to have amazing, like Louisiana following positive numbers. I don't know how they track that, but it's gotta be amazing. I mean, you're one of them.
As a head coach, you got a lot of people that you've got to please. Right. And that's challenging in these type of settings and these things because you want to talk to recruits in that age group, your current players, your fans, but then you also have administration. You've got, old donors that have been around a long time, seen things done a certain way for a long time.
So there's a lot of challenges in that. And you can't please everybody, which, you know, so I've kind of, right or wrong, I've always said, hey, my job is to wherever I'm working at, meaning my job is to Ole Miss. And not to potential future presidents or ADs at other places or other fan bases.
And so whether I was at Tennessee or USC or here, wherever I was, it was like, okay, a lot of what I say other fans don't like. Maybe even other athletic directors are like, well, I don't like that he said that.
But our own fans, our own administration really like it because it's usually me backing Ole Miss and saying what I think about the program, what it should be, and maybe sometimes taking shots at other programs or something like that. Yeah.
factual information blatantly you know and putting it out there and so that that upsets some people and upsets um a lot of other fan bases well that's not my job to worry about them yeah yeah you have one fan base yeah they they're not they didn't hire me they're not paying the bills so um i've always looked at and i think a lot of coaches don't do that and i'm not saying i'm right
A lot of coaches say, hey, I'm going to say things so that future employers potential that they see it. So then they're going to want to hire me. And I've just never thought that way. Do you.
Well, I think, you know, I was, as you mentioned, head coach of Tennessee, then office coordinator at Alabama. So I spent some time there. And those programs really over a long period of time had won a lot of games. Alabama, unbelievable championship runs, Coach Saban, probably a decade there that's never going to be done ever again. Too many wins, I think, for a school.
Not good for a competitive environment throughout the conference when he was taking all the players and winning all the games. And Ole Miss had been down. Somebody said a stat the other day, in the last four years, so the seniors in college here, it's been a cool experience for them. They saw a national championship in baseball. They just saw both basketball teams go to the Sweet 16.
And in four years of football here, we've had three top 12 finishes. Well, they only had one in the previous 51 years. Wow. So there's been four in 55 years. They've seen three of the four. So the difference, obviously, in the programs was different, but I really liked that. It was like a challenge because you can come in at the top of a place that's kind of always won, and then you win.
It's like, okay, versus, wow, let's change what's happened. Let's create a new winning culture, a new way of thinking about in how the locker room and the whole university thinks about football and the program. And so we've raised the expectations to where we won 10 games and people are upset around here, you know? Right. And so.
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