Lane Kiffin
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284 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 1 Oct
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Well, this is like a big tradition, like as far as everywhere, not specific places. Like I love the band thing, you know, before, like, it's just really cool when they have the band out there and they spell things. Speaking of the Tennessee, the opening of the T and then run out, like that was really cool to like, see you're like right there.
And then like the band just opens up the T and you run out. Like that's, that's a really cool tradition.
The fan storming thing is a little bit tough. You know, like. they don't do it in the NFL. They found a way, like I get it. It's pretty cool. Um, but then it can be aggravating because like they're storming and like, and you're worried about like, I'm hitting you. What's going on? What are they going to do? It's like very, um, very invasive at that point. But, um,
I think like if they could just let everybody out and then let the fans on. So they still get to tear the goalpost down. Cause that's the school and stuff.
Yeah, but you were at a historic moment. It was so cool. That will probably never happen ever again. I don't see. It was a once-in-a-lifetime.
We tried. We didn't win it. Jack Star actually tried to get another year or at least see if the option was there. And, you know, they denied it. And there we are. We iced that dude up.
Them. I do. Yeah, Vanderbilt. Because I think they have, like, so much stacked against them, you know? Like, they got higher academic... qualifications to get guys in so they can't just get all the players everybody else can, you know, like harder, you know, because the stadium's usually half full and stuff. So I root for them, especially Clark, because that's a hard job.
And so that's, that's pretty cool for them to win like they did this year.
Yeah, we do. Um, he's not a big like techs guy. Um, but we talk every once in a while. Um, He's not texting. He's like to write.
No, you got to call him. Okay. He did just learn how in the last like two years, two texts. He had never texted before. Wow. Ever. Like when I was assisting coach Sarah, he's just like, I'm not texting. Like, he just refused. It was like that old school. Like, he's got those old school things that aren't changing.
And then I, like, got a text, like, two years ago from him that said good luck or something like that. And I was like, to the group, I was like, dude, I got a Saban text. Like, this is amazing. This is like Manor Belt beating Alabama. Like, this isn't supposed to happen. Never thought I'd see this day. And then Kirby's like, yeah, I got one earlier this year, too.
Like, he's, like, learned how to text. Just, like, you get one or two words, but...
um but that relationship's like almost in a way kind of like how you can struggle sometimes like maybe when you're in it with like a parent and then you get out like you get older and you get away get out of the house yeah and then you're like dang man he he was on to something he was right on those things so i look back and i was there for three years And there was friction initially.
And I look back, there's all my, I'm the assistant. You know what I mean? Like he's the head coach, you know, whatever he says goes. Oh yeah. You supposed to keep it classy over there. Yes. And that's not, his way is very like, this is the way, like there's not open discussions about it and stuff. And I was, I'd worked for Pete Carroll as assistant. So that's all I knew.
And it's just totally different. So, like, you come in, you have an open conversation, and you're questioning the process. No, I just was asking, like, have we looked at this? You know, like, so I didn't really know how it worked right away. And so it took a little bit of time. Like, he didn't want a lot of suggestions. No, no, no, no. It's not like a suggestion box. Like, hey, let me pull this.
Oh, here's a good idea. You know, like, so it was just something I wasn't used to that way. And so it took a little bit of time. But now that I look back, I'm like, okay, he was, so strict on everything, kind of like an apparent way, like with his team, with the players, the coaches, like nothing changed. We won a national championship and there's 7.30 staff meeting the next morning.
I'm like, what are we meeting on at 7.30 the next morning? He's like, we're behind. You know, because we won the championship, everybody else was recruiting and we're behind. And I was like, well, what are we doing? But now I look back and be like, that's why he is what he is. That's why he was so great. Because it was like the standard never changed no matter what.
And then it took me some time to understand too, like when you, when we were winning and playing really well and coaching really well, he was harder on you because he didn't want you to have relief syndrome. You know, like, oh man, we've made it. And I didn't really understand that. I saw he was on the pivot like a month ago and I listened to it with my son Knox and he talked about it in there.
He'd never explained it to us before. But it was interesting to hear. And he said, most people are born with a relief syndrome. He wasn't. He just always had this way of thinking like, Hey, you never relax. Like, but most people are. So he went above and beyond to make sure people didn't have that. Like we'd win a game. And then he comes in and just like rips us.
And we're like, man, we played great. Like coach. Great. That was because he was guarding against that because he knew that that could happen. Dang. Yeah. He wasn't letting anything be a possibility to lose. When I left, we had won 26 straight games. So I only hadn't had many losses, but I do remember the three losses that we had over the three years. Like he actually, after those was calm.
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