Making a decision this big is never easy, especially when you’re leaving a successful program on the verge of making of the playoffs after 6 years of patience. The Ole Miss Rebels HC Kiffin has a fair share of moving around the programs a little too much; having coached at Tennessee, USC, and with the NFL’s Raiders, so he wanted to avoid the feeling of a rushed exit like his one-year stint at Tennessee. He leaned on two legendary coaches he’s worked under in the past for advice.

Nick Saban, his former boss at Alabama, and Pete Carroll, his former boss at USC. Kiffin needed some serious guidance to figure out the right path.

The advice from his mentors really hit home for Kiffin. Nick Saban had mentioned on a different show that every coach has to manage situations based on “where their h

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