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Lane Kiffin (HC LSU)

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LSU Tigers head coach Lane Kiffin dropped a quote this week that he shouldn't have, and he's going to regret it

LSU Tigers head coach Lane Kiffin dropped a quote this week that he shouldn't have, and he's going to regret it. Kiffin is
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LSU Tigers head coach Lane Kiffin dropped a quote this week that he shouldn’t have, and he’s going to regret it​

Not really sure what LSU head coach Lane Kiffin was thinking with that one.

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Lane Kiffin can fight against the expectations all he wants, but the reality is that he’s facing playoff-or-bust pressure in his first season at LSU. And that’s for a couple of reasons.

For one, he left Ole Miss in the middle of a College Football Playoff run to take the job in Baton Rouge. When you leave a team that’s already competing for a championship, it’s only going to increase the spotlight and the expectation that you can do the same at a school with even better resources. Especially in the transfer portal era when year one isn’t viewed the way it used to be anymore. You can instantly build a program from scratch and compete at a very high level.

The other reason the expectation is so high is simple: if you’re the head coach at LSU, you better win a championship. And even if you do win a championship, you still might get fired. Ask Les Miles and Ed Orgeron. And especially ask Brian Kelly what happens when you don’t win one. The expectation is clear.

I’m not saying Kiffin has to win a championship this season or he’ll face questions about his job security. I’m not even saying he’s going to face questions about his job security if he misses the playoff – that’s obviously not going to happen. But there will be quite a bit of noise if LSU isn’t at least in a position to reach the playoff this fall.

Lane Kiffin’s latest comments only add fuel to the fire​

Earlier this offseason, Kiffin told On3 that it might be year two or year three before LSU breaks through.

“I know that this will show, for me, being the right decision,” said Kiffin. “It may not be this year because everybody’s going to want to compare the two places and everything like that. It’ll show in Year 2, 3. It’s going to show that we have the same systems, we have all this stuff and we brought it here, and combined it with the branding of LSU and the ability to sign elite high school (players). That will show. It may not be next year, but this wasn’t a one-year decision.”

That quote from May is why I’m a bit surprised by what Kiffin said this week when asked about his team.

After trying to kill some of the hype over the last few months, he told a reporter that he’s actually more pleased with this team right now than he typically is at this time of the year.

“I’m very pleased where our team is actually – which I’m normally not right now,” said Kiffin. “Obviously, we’ve got a lot of work to do. But no problems [with] players’ attitudes and [we’re] playing physical.”

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I don’t know if that was a wise decision by Kiffin. If you’re trying to kill the hype and lower expectations just a little bit and quiet the noise, the last thing you should be saying is that you’re more pleased with this team than you normally are with your teams in the middle of August (especially considering his team last year at Ole Miss was a playoff team). That’s only going to increase the expectation that LSU goes out and puts itself in a strong position to be in the playoff conversation this fall.
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The author of this dumbass drivel is

Zach Ragan — Tennessee Volunteers News Writer

Tennessee Volunteers News Writer
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Is really all that needs to be said
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2028 GA DL Jamir Lee (Verbal Offer)

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305Buck 23 hours ago
Jamir Lee says Ohio State, Georgia and Miami are recruiting him the hardest and he plans to visit all 3 this season.
Says he loves the way LJ coaches, said he has the best method. One of those kids where you ignore the ranking, elite talent.

KYBuck4858 16 hours ago
If there is a big GA or AL defensive lineman out there, Miguel Patrick is all over them.
Visited us in June.
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I knew the Miguel Patrick hire would eventually start paying off. Coaching HS in GA and winning state titles, to coaching in AL and also playing CFB there as well. He is well known in those 2 states
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Lane Kiffin (HC LSU)

ScriptOhio
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LSU Tigers head coach Lane Kiffin dropped a quote this week that he shouldn't have, and he's going to regret it

LSU Tigers head coach Lane Kiffin dropped a quote this week that he shouldn't have, and he's going to regret it. Kiffin is
atozsports.com atozsports.com

LSU Tigers head coach Lane Kiffin dropped a quote this week that he shouldn’t have, and he’s going to regret it​

Not really sure what LSU head coach Lane Kiffin was thinking with that one.

Screenshot-2026-08-14-at-3.43.23-PM-1280x718.png


Lane Kiffin can fight against the expectations all he wants, but the reality is that he’s facing playoff-or-bust pressure in his first season at LSU. And that’s for a couple of reasons.

For one, he left Ole Miss in the middle of a College Football Playoff run to take the job in Baton Rouge. When you leave a team that’s already competing for a championship, it’s only going to increase the spotlight and the expectation that you can do the same at a school with even better resources. Especially in the transfer portal era when year one isn’t viewed the way it used to be anymore. You can instantly build a program from scratch and compete at a very high level.

The other reason the expectation is so high is simple: if you’re the head coach at LSU, you better win a championship. And even if you do win a championship, you still might get fired. Ask Les Miles and Ed Orgeron. And especially ask Brian Kelly what happens when you don’t win one. The expectation is clear.

I’m not saying Kiffin has to win a championship this season or he’ll face questions about his job security. I’m not even saying he’s going to face questions about his job security if he misses the playoff – that’s obviously not going to happen. But there will be quite a bit of noise if LSU isn’t at least in a position to reach the playoff this fall.

Lane Kiffin’s latest comments only add fuel to the fire​

Earlier this offseason, Kiffin told On3 that it might be year two or year three before LSU breaks through.

“I know that this will show, for me, being the right decision,” said Kiffin. “It may not be this year because everybody’s going to want to compare the two places and everything like that. It’ll show in Year 2, 3. It’s going to show that we have the same systems, we have all this stuff and we brought it here, and combined it with the branding of LSU and the ability to sign elite high school (players). That will show. It may not be next year, but this wasn’t a one-year decision.”

That quote from May is why I’m a bit surprised by what Kiffin said this week when asked about his team.

After trying to kill some of the hype over the last few months, he told a reporter that he’s actually more pleased with this team right now than he typically is at this time of the year.

“I’m very pleased where our team is actually – which I’m normally not right now,” said Kiffin. “Obviously, we’ve got a lot of work to do. But no problems [with] players’ attitudes and [we’re] playing physical.”

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I don’t know if that was a wise decision by Kiffin. If you’re trying to kill the hype and lower expectations just a little bit and quiet the noise, the last thing you should be saying is that you’re more pleased with this team than you normally are with your teams in the middle of August (especially considering his team last year at Ole Miss was a playoff team). That’s only going to increase the expectation that LSU goes out and puts itself in a strong position to be in the playoff conversation this fall.
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Ohio State Men's Basketball (2026-27 Official Thread)

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This week’s question: How many Ohio State players will record a 30-point game this season?​

Connor: Four​

Maybe four guys scoring 30 feels like a reach, but it really isn’t. Two seasons ago, Ohio State had three players – Bruce Thornton, Devin Royal, and Micah Parrish – record at least one game with 30 points, and a then-freshman John Mobley was not too far behind with six different games of at least 20 points.

This year’s team may not have a single player who averages 20 points per game, like Thornton from last year, but it has several players who are capable of scoring 20 or even 30 points on any given night. All it takes is a big first half, the team choosing to feed the hot hand, and maybe some end of game free throws to make it happen.

Right off the top, it feels like a surefire thing that Mobley will break his record of 28 points at some point this season and get to 30. He scored 28 two separate times last season, and fans should expect the now-junior guard to continue to improve with another year under his belt.

It will be tougher for Amare Bynum to get 30 points in a game with the way the offensive production will likely be spread out on this team, but let’s go ahead and pencil him in as the second guy to do it. They’re not the exact same players, but I think the Bynum – E.J. Liddell comparisons are fair to make when looking at the freshman to sophomore year jump.

As a sophomore, Liddell had eight 20-point performances, with his season-high being 26 points. It does not feel unreasonable to think that at some point this year, Bynum surpasses that and gets 30.

Anthony Thompson is the third player I think will put up a 30-point game, and if he does it, I expect it to be sometime during the non-conference. The freshman can absolutely shoot it, and will probably put together a game early in the season where he knocks down five or six three-pointers.
That volume of threes is the way to put up crooked numbers, so it wouldn’t shock me if Thompson goes bananas in the non-conference one time against a Mississippi Valley State or someone of that sort.

Finally, I think at some point during the season, Justin Pippen will put up a 30-point game. I expect him to average a number much closer to 10 points per game than 30, but Pippen likes to attack the basket, draw fouls, and – even if he’s not super efficient – he loves to shoot the ball.

Pippen had three games last year where he scored at least 20 points, and as Ohio State’s point guard he’s also going to have the ball in his hands down the stretch, and could be shooting some free throws at the end of games.

Justin: Two​

30 points is not an easy number to come by, and this team has a lot of mouths to feed when it comes to offensive output, so I don’t think this will happen often. But I do think it will happen.

First of all, the five-star freshman Anthony Thompson is too elite of a scorer and a shooter to not have at least one game where he goes off and puts up a crooked number of points.

Similar to Malaki Branham as a freshman, I would not be shocked if there are some games where he struggles, especially early on, but he will go off in the games where he finds his rhythm early.

Also, John Mobley will be looking to get 30 points this season. He scored 28 twice last season, and that remains his career high. He also had two games in which he scored 26 points and one game with 25 points. He will get 30.

I think Amare Bynum, Jimmie Williams, and Justin Pippen will have games where they score 20 and maybe even 25, but not quite 30.

I am going with two players.
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QB1 Julian Sayin (All B1G, B1G Frosh of Year, All American, National Frosh of Year, National Champion)

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The other new wrinkle for Sayin, though it’s not a particularly new change, is his offensive coordinator. He started with Chip Kelly, who is now the Northwestern offensive coordinator after a year with the Las Vegas Raiders. He then had a season with Brian Hartline, who was promoted from wide receivers coach and is now the head coach at USF.

Now, it’s Arthur Smith, who heads to Columbus with an NFL track record and experience working with Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson and Matt Ryan to help teach Sayin.

“He’s an extremely bright offensive mind. When you have someone who has an NFL background like that and coached at the highest level of an NFL head coach,” Sayin said. “It's really awesome for our development as players, we want to go to the next level. So it's really cool to have him in our plan.”

While Sayin has tremendous praise for his offensive coordinator, the longtime NFL coach has reciprocated that right back to his gunslinger who was a finalist for the Heisman Trophy a year ago.
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But it’s a new year, a new Sayin and a new offensive coordinator, one who is expected to put Sayin in the best position to succeed in his second year at the helm of the offense.

And he thinks the sky is the limit for Sayin.

“He continues to impress. He doesn't feel like a young player to me, cause he sees the game so well and he understands football,” Arthur Smith said Thursday. “He's so smart, sometimes I have to pull him back and be like ‘you got to let everybody else catch up to you.’ But that's a great problem to have, I'm super impressed with him. He understands how to play quarterback and understands the game.”
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Game Thread Northwestern at tOSU, Sat. Nov. 14th, TBA

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New at the ‘Shoe: Ohio State Unveils 2026 Home Game Themes and Fan Experience Upgrades​

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  • Nov. 14 vs. Northwestern:
    • This weekend's matchup will serve as Ohio State's Military Appreciation Game, presented by Anduril. Through the Our Honor Defend military appreciation program, Buckeye Nation will come together to recognize the veterans and service members who have served, are serving or will serve our country.
    • Inspired by the values of duty, loyalty and courage, Our Honor Defend reflects Ohio State's pride in supporting military-connected students and honoring those who defend honor with character and integrity. Proceeds from officially licensed Our Honor Defend products support Ohio State Veterans, ROTC and other military-connected student scholarships.
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