It didn’t take long — three questions, to be exact — before Lane Kiffin was asked about the role his mentors, including Nick Saban , played in his decision to come to LSU .

Kiffin, who was hired as the 34th head coach of LSU on Sunday, stood at the podium at his introductory news conference less than 24 hours later and talked about how “torn” he was to leave Ole Miss, as it was on the verge of making the College Football Playoff. He relayed what Las Vegas Raiders coach and former Southern Cal coach Pete Carroll told him: That Kiffin’s late father Monte would tell him he should take the LSU job.

“He would tell you,” Kiffin said. “ ‘Boy, go get it. Go for it.’ "

But what did Saban — the national championship winning coach at LSU and six-time national title winner at Alabama — say to

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