It’s been a whirlwind three days for Lane Kiffin, but the new LSU football coach is steadfast in his decision to leave Ole Miss after six years — in part, he revealed, because of his late father.

“Over the past few weeks, and especially the past few days, trying to figure out this decision, I really tried to channel my dad,” Kiffin said during his introductory press conference on Monday, December 1. “And I thought of when I spoke at his funeral. And when I spoke, it occurred to me as I was writing that speech: I never understood why as a kid we moved so much. And I realized we had moved 17 times. But during that funeral and during that week when he passed, the amount of people that reached out to me.. was amazing.”

He continued, “That happened for a reason. He went to all those different

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