Lane Kiffin took the podium in Baton Rouge on Monday and, without being asked to, spent a large part of it moving Saturday off his own locker room and onto himself. Locked On Ole Miss host Steven Willis argues that is not a man who is comfortable. Kiffin called the situation "unusual" three times in one session — "one team you built and then now a new team that you're building" — then said "I know obviously a lot's gonna be made about me, but this is about the players being prepared really well and playing really well." Later, plainer: "There's just gonna be so much attention, hatred, everything on me. I said, you just get to go play." Hatred is his word, volunteered; the reporter had said heckling. Segment two is the four-day problem he named himself, and it is not the defense. On Louisiana Tech, Kiffin said LSU "didn't do well taking care of the ball in the turnover margin," that there were "a lot of negative runs," and that the issue is "the inability — everybody doing things right — to finish drives." Then the example: "one of those drives, I think it was 20 plays. It's got to be a record to go 20 plays and not get any points but give the other team 7 on the 20th play." And the verdict on his own stat sheet: "As you see the yardage, whatever, 2nd in the country, but that's — that doesn't matter. You got to finish the drives." Add three interceptions against Louisiana Tech and a red zone that LSU's own pregame radio show placed 13th in the SEC, and that is the list he has four days to work through, in the loudest building he will visit all season. The honest counterweight on both: his players did not choose this storyline, and shielding a locker room from a week like this is exactly a head coach's job. LSU has also scored 96 points in two games, and a coach picking at his own team in week three is coaching, not panic. So what does he fix first? Tell us in the comments. Locked On Ole Miss Hits — quick takes on the Rebels every weekday. Subscribe and hit the bell. Hotty Toddy. #OleMiss #HottyToddy #LaneKiffin #LSU #OleMissFootball #SEC #MagnoliaBowl CHAPTERS — 0:00 Cold Open And Today's Two Takes 0:48 The Portal Defence — “That's Not The Case” 2:17 Kalshi 2:45 Leaks In The Building
Lane Kiffin took the podium in Baton Rouge on Monday and, without being asked to, spent a large part of it moving Saturday off his own locker room and onto himself.
Locked On Ole Miss host Steven Willis argues that is not a man who is comfortable. Kiffin called the situation "unusual" three times in one session — "one team you built and then now a new team that you're building" — then said "I know obviously a lot's gonna be made about me, but this is about the players being prepared really well and playing really well." Later, plainer: "There's just gonna be so much attention, hatred, everything on me. I said, you just get to go play." Hatred is his word, volunteered; the reporter had said heckling.
Segment two is the four-day problem he named himself, and it is not the defense. On Louisiana Tech, Kiffin said LSU "didn't do well taking care of the ball in the turnover margin," that there were "a lot of negative runs," and that the issue is "the inability — everybody doing things right — to finish drives." Then the example: "one of those drives, I think it was 20 plays. It's got to be a record to go 20 plays and not get any points but give the other team 7 on the 20th play." And the verdict on his own stat sheet: "As you see the yardage, whatever, 2nd in the country, but that's — that doesn't matter. You got to finish the drives."
Add three interceptions against Louisiana Tech and a red zone that LSU's own pregame radio show placed 13th in the SEC, and that is the list he has four days to work through, in the loudest building he will visit all season.
The honest counterweight on both: his players did not choose this storyline, and shielding a locker room from a week like this is exactly a head coach's job. LSU has also scored 96 points in two games, and a coach picking at his own team in week three is coaching, not panic.
So what does he fix first? Tell us in the comments.
Locked On Ole Miss Hits — quick takes on the Rebels every weekday. Subscribe and hit the bell. Hotty Toddy.
#OleMiss #HottyToddy #LaneKiffin #LSU #OleMissFootball #SEC #MagnoliaBowl
CHAPTERS —
0:00 Cold Open And Today's Two Takes
0:48 The Portal Defence — “That's Not The Case”
2:17 Kalshi
2:45 Leaks In The Building