Lane is expected to turn LSU into a monster, and we got them in Houston in 2027
By 2027, UH should be a CFP contender.
Go Coogs
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Let’s continue the UH tradition of getting LSU coaches fired.
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Hell.
We might get LSU in a bowl game this year!!
Ratings will be crazy!!
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How does he do in year 2 because our game would be the 1st game of his 2nd season.
And for Tilman who didn’t want him, he stayed 3 years at Florida Atlantic…we would have gotten 2-3 years from him
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There are +/- on that. I have a feeling our NIL donors are going to go all in for the 2027 season.
Playing LSU in december gives them reps against many of our players…or maybe few will be here in 2027 but it also gives us reps vs LSU.
That’s who i hope we land in the Texas Bowl!
Feel like LSU would be a good OOC rival.
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This is awkward because Ole Miss is making the playoff.
Dude is walking away from a chance to win a National Championship to make a SEC lateral move to LSU?
Ask Brian Kelly how that worked out for him…
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If I’m not mistaken. He’ll be the highest paid coach in college football, but we’re supposed to believe it’s not about the money.
Yeah…
Right…
Go find your next girlfriend and drink some Mai Tais in the Bahamas Lane…and have another conversation with your god, while your Family sits at home.
Pathetic…
So Pete Carroll told him to “go for it”.
Wonder what Nick Saban told him?
Nick left a great program, in LSU, only to arrive at Alabama a couple years later. It worked out for Nick.
Maybe it works out for Lane?
I have my doubts…
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Far from a lateral move. Ole Miss doesn’t compare to LSU and it’s not even debatable. There’s a reason Death Valley seats 40k more than Hemingway. Of course the pressure on the HC is another story.
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You are thinking pre NIL…Ole Miss will be in this year’s playoff…LSU will not…and that is after LSU broke the bank hiring a proven coach from ND and getting their normal recruiting class.
This is a broken record as we see in constant repeat…Coach XYZ has tremendous success at College A only to leave to go to College B where they suddenly turn into a horrible coach that gets fired soon after arriving.
Herman
Frost
Fickle
Kelly
Franklin are just some recent examples.
Why not stay and sustain the juggernaut you’ve already built?
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Shiney new car? Burning bridges as fast as you build them?
Lots of reasons. Lane’s is simpler than that. He never grew up. He relishes in being the center of attention. He grew up with a silver football tucked under his arm that Daddy put there.
Q: What’s the definition of commitment?
A: The pig is committed to breakfast. The chicken is just involved in it.
Lane is afraid of commitment…
Is he a good coach. Simple answer… Yes.
Is he a good human being? Debatable. He’s amicable with his ex-wife and has “friends”. Money buys a lot of friends.
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I think there’s an element of always needing somewhere to go up. If you’re already the head coach of a team, you don’t want to go be the AD or school president because those aren’t higher achievements. There is no next rung of the ladder. If you’ve done the same thing three or four years in a row and you get a sense that you’re at the ceiling of what you can do there, the only way to feel a sense of continuing to achieve is to make a move.
Now I personally view this as potentially a form of idolatry that will always leave you empty when it’s through squeezing the juice out of you, but I also see a similar pattern with some of the jet pilots I work with as their Navy careers come to an end and they have to navigate the civilian world for the first time as adults.
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Nick told him he wouldn’t have to build his roster through the portal.
I thought Lane would have been smarter to stay, but the contract and NIL LSU was offering would be hard to turn down.
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Lane Kiffin has signed a seven-year, $91 million contract with LSU, which includes $13 million in annual salary and incentives. The contract also features a large buyout clause if LSU fires him without cause and an escalator that could make him the highest-paid coach if he wins a national championship.
Contract details
Length: Seven years
Total value: $91 million
Annual average: Approximately $13 million
Incentives: Up to $4 million in postseason bonuses for winning the SEC championship and national title in the same year
Buyout: If LSU fires Kiffin without cause, it would owe him 80% of his remaining salary. This clause does not require him to mitigate (find a new job).
Escalator: An automatic increase would make him the highest-paid coach in the country if he wins a national championship.
HE’S SMILING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK…
Kiffin is doing himself right by his family and his ego. If he’s smart, he will divert some of his hefty salary to his assistants. LSU probably has a plan B and plan C reserved for Kiffin in case some other school or an NFL owner comes calling. And of course LSU expects a national championship and will probably fire him if he doesn’t deliver.
I wonder what would have happened if we hired Kiffin over Applewhite in 2017?
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Simple, UH would have won 3 national champions in the last 8 years with greatest coach/product of Nick Saban and Pete Carrol, the Messiah Lane Kiffin. 
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Kyle Allen for Heisman in 2017.
King would have been at WR the whole season.
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