New LSU head football coach Lane Kiffin poses for a picture after his first press conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Jonathan Mailhes/Cal Sport Media/AP

In the midst of a press conference that oscillated between revivalist pep rally and convenient disingenuous recreation of reality on Monday, Lane Kiffin told a very real story that highlighted the absurdity of this whole sordid tale.

After deciding to leave Ole Miss for LSU and finally and firmly being shown the door by administrators in Oxford, Mississippi, Kiffin and his son, Knox, made their way to the airport to head to Baton Rouge.

Angry fans not only met him at the airport; some, Kiffin claimed, chased him down the highway. “I thought they were going to run me off the road,’’ he said.

So concerned was Kiffin that he phoned a

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