Lane Kiffin Still Doesn't Get It

There was much made this weekend about Lane Kiffin's ire towards an Ole Miss media member who said of Kiffin, "You can't turn a ho into a housewife." Whatever you think of the phrasing, his point was very clear and concise: Lane is never going to stop being Lane. And it would be impossible to argue anything Kiffin has done in the last 48 hours could lead anyone to a different conclusion.

Based on all the available reporting, it seems Kiffin's decision to leave Oxford for LSU has been made for some time. The delay in making that official has come from his desire to coach in the College Football Playoff, which Ole Miss obviously can't allow from someone who has decided to take a job with a rival. So now the situation has deteriorated to the point that Kiffin has reportedly given an ultimatum to staff members that they're either going with him immediately or finding employment for next season elsewhere and an 11-1 Ole Miss team could be left with a decimated staff heading into a CFP it could very conceivably win.

In other words, Lane is being Lane.

This is part of the Lane Kiffin Experience. It has been for more than a decade. Yes, he is an outstanding coach. He's going to have funny posts online that you will swear are incredibly endearing when he's coaching your team. But there is going to come a time when things go sideways for whatever reason and it's at that time you're going to find out what "toxic" really means. Just ask Tennessee, USC, Alabama, Ole Miss or the Oakland Raiders. I'm sure they'll all give you similar accounts.

Remember when ESPN ran that fluff piece a couple months ago in which Kiffin talked about how much he's changed and learned from his previous experiences? And how he was going to take the Auburn job, but it was his second chance at being a good father that kept him at Ole Miss? It seems all he actually needed was a better job than the second-rate program in Alabama and $13 million a year and all of a sudden all that other shit didn't matter too much.

I don't blame Lane for taking the LSU job. As a matter of fact, I'd bet he's going to kill it there and if I had to pick whether or not he wins a national championship there, I'd say yes. Just spare me the act. Because make no mistake, Tigers fans: this will happen to you, too. It may be in two years or it may be in 20, but it's going to happen.

This is still Lane Kiffin. And Lane is going to be Lane.