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Lane Kiffin left 11-1 Ole Miss to become LSU’s next head coach, walking away from the Rebels on the brink of a College Football Playoff berth.

Pete Carroll invoked Kiffin’s late father Monte, telling the coach his dad would urge him to “take the shot” at the bigger LSU opportunity.

Guided by his father’s legacy of impacting people, Kiffin decided to leave Oxford before the postseason despite initially wanting to stay.

Lane Kiffin has left Mississippi to become the new coach at Louisiana State. But not before getting some key advice from his former USC boss, he has revealed. Key advice that also came indirectly from his late father.

More than two decades ago, Kiffin helped USC win

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