As he wrestled with the career decision of a lifetime, Lane Kiffin dearly wished his father was there to help him choose his path.

Stay at Ole Miss, with a College Football Playoff-bound team in hand, or leave for a boundless but unknown future at LSU.

Monte Kiffin, one of the most respected defensive coaches in NFL history, died in July 2024, in Oxford, Mississippi, where he’d relocated in retirement to be close to his sons Lane and Chris, also on the Ole Miss staff. Without his dad, Lane did the next best thing he could think to do. He asked his two living mentors, former LSU and Alabama coach Nick Saban and Las Vegas Raiders and former USC coach Pete Carroll, for their advice.

Carroll once told Monte Kiffin he would always look out for Lane in his career. More than anything, it seems

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