The TRUTH About Lane Kiffin at LSU - Josh Pate's College Football Show

0:00 The truth teller series is what we do this time

0:02 of year where we just pick a certain topic

0:03 or a person or whatever and just kind of tell

0:06 the truth about them as best we know the truth.

0:08 And we we spun the the wheel tonight and it landed on Lane Keifin.

0:14 But specifically, you know, Lane Kein over the last few years,

0:18 Lane Keifin even over the last year,

0:20 that's like a whole book, a whole novel if you will.

0:22 The move from Old Miss to LSU.

0:24 What's the truth about all that?

0:25 Well, I think the truth about Lane in general historically

0:29 is going to have to be split into two categories.

0:31 So, you got two compartments, if you will.

0:33 You got the one compartment, which is Lane Keifin, the person.

0:36 And I don't think many people are changing their minds at this point.

0:38 Everyone's got a pretty fully formed opinion

0:41 on what they think of Lane Kein, the person.

0:44 Now, most of you don't know Lane Kein,

0:45 the person, but you know, of Lane Keifin, the person.

0:48 So, you got your opinion on that.

0:50 Let's table that for a second.

0:51 Then over here in this compartment, you've got Lane Keifin, the football coach.

0:56 That one is still very much evolving.

0:59 One of them is set.

1:00 The other one, I think, very much is not.

1:03 So Lane Keifin at LSU has the chance to become a legend,

1:08 has the chance to become an icon.

1:10 He has the chance to do at LSU what Nick Sabin did, what Les Miles did.

1:14 Ed Orzon found a way to do it.

1:16 Brian Kelly, this millennium,

1:17 is the only guy who didn't find a way to win a championship there.

1:20 And if he wins a championship there,

1:22 then it will affirm everything that they believed about

1:25 him that made them pursue him in the first place.

1:28 And also Lane coming in there was it was part

1:32 it was like the face of this this big churn.

1:37 There's a ton of change down there,

1:39 but there was also a ton of looking around the country and realizing,

1:43 oh, that's the way college football works now.

1:46 Well, game on and Lane's going to be the face of it.

1:50 Now, if he falls flat on his face, well, that's one thing.

1:55 And, you know, at that point, okay, well, he still had his years at Old Miss.

1:59 Uh, he still lasted a lot longer than most

2:02 people thought he would when he got tarmaced at USC.

2:05 Like, no, no one who in the world would have ever predicted him

2:08 all these years later to be the head coach at multiple SEC stops,

2:11 ending with LSU, which is a premier job in college football.

2:15 But even if he fails there,

2:16 he will have accomplished more than most people thought he would if you

2:20 go back to that period in time where he got fired at USC.

2:22 But that's not the fun thing to talk about.

2:24 The fun thing to talk about is if Lane Keifin gets it rolling at LSU,

2:28 which he's almost certain to do to some degree,

2:32 then you will not find probably a more entertaining,

2:36 mustwatch, just fun team to follow.

2:40 I think about like Sheay Dixon who's who's just been on the LSU beat

2:44 for a long time and I think about

2:47 Sheay Dixon being able to cover Lane Kein's LSU.

2:52 Uh but going back to the decision for just

2:54 a second because that was kind of, you know,

2:56 the genesis for why we talked about this tonight.

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3:11 Back to the clip.

3:12 Everybody's got an opinion, it seems.

3:15 Or go back to the time it was happening.

3:17 You remember December, Miss LSU, Lane Keifin,

3:25 and Miss is headed towards the playoff.

3:28 And we talked about it for several weeks on this show.

3:30 I mean, November was a crazy time last year because LSU has already fired Kelly.

3:35 You know, they've circled Lane Keifin.

3:36 Everyone knows they've circled Lane Kein.

3:38 Lane Keifin knows they've circled Lane Kein.

3:40 Old Miss knows they've circled Lane Kein.

3:42 And Miss and Lane Keifin are in the thick of a playoff run.

3:45 And then it was, well, what do you do?

3:48 What do you do if you're lane and you're going to make the playoff?

3:51 What do you do if LSU says, "Hey, we need you down here.

3:54 Signing day is coming up right after the regular season wraps.

3:57 We don't care if you make the playoff.

3:59 If you're taking our job,

4:00 you're going to be down here coaching this team, running this program.

4:04 We're not paying you to stay up in Oxford, Mississippi.

4:06 Hey, what are you doing?

4:07 Everyone had an opinion.

4:08 And I remember pretty consistently saying then,

4:11 as I will say now that we know how the story ended,

4:15 nobody else's opinion mattered.

4:16 His mattered.

4:18 So like some people out there looked at it

4:21 and said it's foolish to think LSU is a significant step

4:25 up from Old Miss in today's college football because

4:28 of what portal and nil have done to flatten things out.

4:31 Like if Kurt Signetti can walk into Indiana

4:33 and do what he's done over Ohio State,

4:36 certainly you could duplicate those kind of results

4:39 in the modern day at Old Miss over LSU.

4:42 And that's a fair stance to have.

4:46 But Lane didn't have that stance is the only point.

4:49 So it didn't even matter if I thought it.

4:52 I'm not the one who's being pursued.

4:54 Lane Keifin was.

4:55 So he obviously looked at it and said even today it is a significant jump

5:03 up in caliber of job to go to LSU as opposed to remaining at Old Miss.

5:07 Well, that was the long and short of it.

5:09 And then you can be mad at him, which a lot of people will be.

5:12 You can choose to not forgive him, which a lot of people won't.

5:15 You could be an outsider and just look and say,

5:17 "I don't know if I would have done that." Or, "Oh,

5:19 absolutely I would have done that." Doesn't matter.

5:22 Didn't matter what I thought or you thought or anything like that.

5:24 That's the truth of it.

5:25 Now, it is also true that he could very much come to regret the decision.

5:31 That happens all the time.

5:32 That happens all the time.

5:34 It's also true that we could look back on it five years from now and say,

5:38 "That's the best decision he could have ever made." That's the fun of it.

5:42 We don't know yet.

5:43 Every Saturday, I wake up and before I even put my contacts in, I

5:49 use one eye and I scroll index finger like this through the eye.

5:53 Josh and I find the cornfield picture and I tweeted out

5:58 with a reminder of how many Saturdays we are from college football season.

6:04 Alex and allegedly producer Jesse allegedly looked at that and said,

6:11 "Well, if that means college football is coming eventually,

6:15 and we've got the P State store over here

6:17 just sitting there with infinite amounts of shelf space,

6:21 why shouldn't we put representation about college

6:26 football approaching in the store?" And then they

6:30 found out that Savannah State has recently gotten

6:33 me to watch Game of Thrones very recently.

6:37 It's a new thing.

6:37 I don't know what to think about it yet.

6:39 But what I do know is whatever winter is coming means is of secondary

6:46 concern to me at the moment because

6:48 college football coming is of primary concern.

6:51 And as you can see here, we have brand new items, not merch,

6:57 items in the Pate State store to signify that football is coming,

7:01 ladies and gentlemen.

7:02 It will be here.

7:03 Now, in the meantime, we can have a lot of fun.

7:07 Just a just a sun-filled, vacationfilled summer.

7:11 And there's also a new shirt for the Pate

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7:15 Uh, but yeah, we got two new items in the Pstate store, pstatemate.com.

7:19 Jesse predicts that the football is coming shirt

7:21 will be our biggest mover of the month.

7:23 I think you've got an unfair advantage because it's a new item.

7:26 So, I'm not betting him on it.

7:28 But yeah, I already bought the sleeveless version.

7:31 I had Alex make sleeveless versions.

7:33 By the way, I know our audience.

7:34 Jesse may not lift, but our audience lifts.