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Chapter 1: Who is Lane Kiffin and what is his coaching background?
And it's like, whoa, can we, like, move these just back a little bit? Maybe, like, maybe I can just do the wave. Yeah. You know, hey, guys, good to see you.
Yeah, put the defensive tackles along the outside. Yeah, I agree. But you guys, yeah, it's definitely a ton of tradition here. I mean, this is like Morgan Freeman's front porch down here in the South. It's a slower lifestyle. Was that a little bit tough for you? I mean, what's, I mean, it is, Mississippi is the, it's a, it is like wandering back through time, you know? Yeah. There's a lot there.
Yeah. I can unpack there. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's a lot of history. I moved here. A lot of tradition. And everything you're going to give me is just full disclosure anyway. I moved here because it was SEC head job, and I thought we could win and do a great job. I wasn't like, man, I want to move to like... I'm just really dying to move to Oxford, Mississippi. Right.
But I also didn't know much about it either. So I judged it that way, just kind of like a lot of people do about Mississippi. And at first, it was a lot. Because I'd spent most of my time before that in South Florida or in LA at USC. And I was like, at first, I was like, whew, this is a lot. Like, I mean...
long-winded like a lot of conversations slow moving oh yeah but then you say thank you like it's not over right hey thank you yeah and then like they just keep going yeah oh yeah like no but no really thank you i really appreciate it like i'm gonna go to go now oh well um well what are you so what are you doing tomorrow I just met you like, you know, like.
Oh, yeah. You can make everybody's a friend. They and there's also so many famous authors. So that's why the South is so full of famous storytellers, because everybody is one, you know.
But then it took me some. I'm so glad that I've been here long enough now, five years going on the sixth year. And now I see it completely different. Now I go back to like South Florida or I go to LA and I'm like, dang, these people are rude. Like everybody's just moving fast. Everybody's just into themselves. Nobody's like saying hi. So it's like what I thought really was kind of bad.
Now I'm like, man, I love it now. You know, it's like a warmth, a sweetness, you know, hospitality and people being nice. And I've learned to, that's actually slowed me down because I was always like, What job can I get? You know, how fast can I move? How many championships to win? Like just always moving. And I was like, maybe they're onto something here.
Maybe this slow down thing that I was judging at first, like I made jokes about the rocking chairs, like people sit in rocking chairs. Yeah. And I'm like, first Charlotte airport or whatever. I saw that. Yeah, I did when I was, and I was like, you'll see somebody has a 40 second layover. They're like, I'm going to get a little rest in. Yeah.
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Chapter 2: How does Lane Kiffin use social media to connect with fans and recruits?
What, for somebody out there who's getting into their middle age and is kind of struggling with having a setback or something, what is something you think you would share with them from your experience or a thought or statement or?
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.
Hey, man, man, I needed to hear that. Yeah, there's something I've been like, I just feel like kind of the world is ending because it's something that's kind of like just work stuff. And I'm like, what do I do? But I just have to look at it as a challenge, adjust the perspective.
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?
It really ain't that big. If you zoom out to later on, you're going to look back and be like, man, that wasn't a big deal. I'm glad it happened.
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