LSU football turns the page to the Lane Kiffin era. Kiffin ended weeks of speculation and accepted LSU's offer Sunday . Turns out, though, a conversation with Pete Carroll sparked the move out of Ole Miss.

Kiffin chatted one-on-one with Marty Smith of ESPN while on his way to the airport . The incoming Tigers leader shared how he sought the advice of the Las Vegas Raiders head coach and Nick Saban, whom he calls his mentors. Carroll brought up Kiffin's famed dad Monte and what he would've told the son.

“Carroll said ‘your dad will tell you to go and take the shot. You've accomplished a lot here,'” Kiffin shared to Smith.

Kiffin and Carroll helped build USC into a perennial national powerhouse during the early 2000s.

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