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Agent of chaos: Lane Kiffin fed Dabo Swinney intel, egged him on to publicly attack Ole Miss over tampering
An excerpt from upcoming book "Lane Being Lane: The Story of Lane Kiffin, College Football's Agent of Chaos"
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Agent of chaos: Lane Kiffin fed Dabo Swinney intel, egged him on to publicly attack Ole Miss over tampering
An excerpt from upcoming book "Lane Being Lane: The Story of Lane Kiffin, College Football's Agent of Chaos"
Adapted from Lane Being Lane: The Story of Lane Kiffin, College Football's Agent of Chaos by John Talty to be published by Harper, Sept. 15, 2026. The first book on the most polarizing coach in college sports, Louisiana State University football coach Lane Kiffin, charts his inexorable rise and his impact on the game, as he left a trail of winning teams, bad feelings, and controversy in his wake.
Lane Kiffin came off like a man who badly wanted revenge on Ole Miss, but everywhere he turned he was rebuffed. Eventually, he found a target: Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney.
Swinney had just lost talented Cal transfer linebacker Luke Ferrelli to Ole Miss despite his signing with the Tigers and even going to classes on Clemson's campus. Ferrelli, the ACC Defensive Rookie of the Year, took a visit to Ole Miss before signing with Clemson, but the Rebels didn't have a spot available for him.
"This is a whole other level of tampering," Swinney said in January. "It's total hypocrisy…We have a broken system, and if there are no consequences for tampering, then we have no rules and we have no governance."
Kiffin even passed along information, according to multiple sources, to help Swinney in his crusade against Golding and Ole Miss. Clemson offensive line coach Matt Luke, the former Ole Miss head coach, called his alma mater to give it a heads-up on what Kiffin had helped convince Swinney to do.
Ole Miss officials were furious, not only because they now had to deal with another national controversy once Swinney went public with the allegations, but over Kiffin's hypocrisy.
"Dabo's one of the main guys when [Lane] was at Ole Miss he would always say that guy's a fraud and I don't like that," says a high-ranking Ole Miss official. "And of course, he's feeding him all this stuff."
Says another Ole Miss source, "He can't handle Ole Miss being successful. Pete (Golding) said, 'They better be careful I know where every body is buried.'"
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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
We now know why Lane Kiffin is so determined to add former NFL players to LSU's roster and it's not the reason we were led to believe
We now know why Lane Kiffin is so determined to add former NFL players to LSU's roster and it's not the reason we were led to believe
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We now know why Lane Kiffin is so determined to add former NFL players to LSU’s roster and it’s not the reason we were led to believe
LSU head coach Lane Kiffin has created plenty of headlines over the last few weeks in Baton Rouge.
Lane Kiffin and the LSU Tigers have made headlines over the last week for their attempts to add former NFL players to the roster.
The assumption from many has been that Kiffin felt LSU needed more talent to compete for a College Football Playoff spot this season.
That assumption is wrong.
This isn’t about LSU’s roster being insufficient. Kiffin went into the summer believing his $50 million roster was good enough to compete. And sure, he probably thinks these former NFL players can make LSU even better, but this isn’t a situation where he believes the Tigers have to have former NFL talent in order to truly contend. This is about something much simpler: Kiffin trying to prove he can do something the SEC is telling him he can’t.
Lane Kiffin has always been driven by defiance
People close to Kiffin have pointed out that he is driven by this kind of thing. When someone tells him he can’t do it, it makes him want to do it even more, regardless of whether it’s worth it.“Those who know Kiffin best swear he wouldn’t want it any other way,” wrote On3’s Chris Low this week. “The more he’s told he can’t do something, the more hell-bent he is on doing it, even when the risk doesn’t seem to be worth the reward.”
“He’s one of the best coaches in the game, and for some reason, that’s not good enough for him. He lets things drive him sometimes that shouldn’t drive him,” added somebody who’s known Kiffin for decades to Low.
It’s not just those around Kiffin saying this. Kiffin himself told reporters earlier this year, while discussing his trip to Knoxville to woo quarterback Sam Leavitt to LSU instead of Tennessee, that he doesn’t do well with being told no.
“I don’t know. I just know how I do things,” said Kiffin. “There’s a good and bad to it. I’m extremely competitive, and I don’t really do well with no — that just makes me more competitive when someone says no. So sometimes that happens in recruiting, they say no. But I think that’s my job. That’s my job to LSU.”
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We now know why Lane Kiffin is so determined to add former NFL players to LSU's roster and it's not the reason we were led to believe
We now know why Lane Kiffin is so determined to add former NFL players to LSU's roster and it's not the reason we were led to believeWe now know why Lane Kiffin is so determined to add former NFL players to LSU’s roster and it’s not the reason we were led to believe
LSU head coach Lane Kiffin has created plenty of headlines over the last few weeks in Baton Rouge.
Lane Kiffin and the LSU Tigers have made headlines over the last week for their attempts to add former NFL players to the roster.
The assumption from many has been that Kiffin felt LSU needed more talent to compete for a College Football Playoff spot this season.
That assumption is wrong.
This isn’t about LSU’s roster being insufficient. Kiffin went into the summer believing his $50 million roster was good enough to compete. And sure, he probably thinks these former NFL players can make LSU even better, but this isn’t a situation where he believes the Tigers have to have former NFL talent in order to truly contend. This is about something much simpler: Kiffin trying to prove he can do something the SEC is telling him he can’t.
Lane Kiffin has always been driven by defiance
People close to Kiffin have pointed out that he is driven by this kind of thing. When someone tells him he can’t do it, it makes him want to do it even more, regardless of whether it’s worth it.
“Those who know Kiffin best swear he wouldn’t want it any other way,” wrote On3’s Chris Low this week. “The more he’s told he can’t do something, the more hell-bent he is on doing it, even when the risk doesn’t seem to be worth the reward.”
“He’s one of the best coaches in the game, and for some reason, that’s not good enough for him. He lets things drive him sometimes that shouldn’t drive him,” added somebody who’s known Kiffin for decades to Low.
It’s not just those around Kiffin saying this. Kiffin himself told reporters earlier this year, while discussing his trip to Knoxville to woo quarterback Sam Leavitt to LSU instead of Tennessee, that he doesn’t do well with being told no.
“I don’t know. I just know how I do things,” said Kiffin. “There’s a good and bad to it. I’m extremely competitive, and I don’t really do well with no — that just makes me more competitive when someone says no. So sometimes that happens in recruiting, they say no. But I think that’s my job. That’s my job to LSU.”
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Meh, it’s more likely that one of them just has a hot mom or sister.We now know why Lane Kiffin is so determined to add former NFL players to LSU's roster and it's not the reason we were led to believe
We now know why Lane Kiffin is so determined to add former NFL players to LSU's roster and it's not the reason we were led to believeWe now know why Lane Kiffin is so determined to add former NFL players to LSU’s roster and it’s not the reason we were led to believe
LSU head coach Lane Kiffin has created plenty of headlines over the last few weeks in Baton Rouge.
Lane Kiffin and the LSU Tigers have made headlines over the last week for their attempts to add former NFL players to the roster.
The assumption from many has been that Kiffin felt LSU needed more talent to compete for a College Football Playoff spot this season.
That assumption is wrong.
This isn’t about LSU’s roster being insufficient. Kiffin went into the summer believing his $50 million roster was good enough to compete. And sure, he probably thinks these former NFL players can make LSU even better, but this isn’t a situation where he believes the Tigers have to have former NFL talent in order to truly contend. This is about something much simpler: Kiffin trying to prove he can do something the SEC is telling him he can’t.
Lane Kiffin has always been driven by defiance
People close to Kiffin have pointed out that he is driven by this kind of thing. When someone tells him he can’t do it, it makes him want to do it even more, regardless of whether it’s worth it.
“Those who know Kiffin best swear he wouldn’t want it any other way,” wrote On3’s Chris Low this week. “The more he’s told he can’t do something, the more hell-bent he is on doing it, even when the risk doesn’t seem to be worth the reward.”
“He’s one of the best coaches in the game, and for some reason, that’s not good enough for him. He lets things drive him sometimes that shouldn’t drive him,” added somebody who’s known Kiffin for decades to Low.
It’s not just those around Kiffin saying this. Kiffin himself told reporters earlier this year, while discussing his trip to Knoxville to woo quarterback Sam Leavitt to LSU instead of Tennessee, that he doesn’t do well with being told no.
“I don’t know. I just know how I do things,” said Kiffin. “There’s a good and bad to it. I’m extremely competitive, and I don’t really do well with no — that just makes me more competitive when someone says no. So sometimes that happens in recruiting, they say no. But I think that’s my job. That’s my job to LSU.”
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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Lane Kiffin dropped some comments after LSU's blowout win over Clemson that Dabo Swinney is not going to recover from
Lane Kiffin dropped some comments after LSU's blowout win over Clemson that Dabo Swinney is not going to recover from
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Lane Kiffin dropped some comments after LSU’s blowout win over Clemson that Dabo Swinney is not going to recover from
LSU was obviously confident going into the game, but even they may have been surprised at just how much of a beatdown it was against Clemson.Kiffin, in fact, said after the game that he was surprised at how dysfunctional Clemson was on offense.
He also said the scout team scored more against LSU’s defense in practice this past week than Clemson did.
“I thought it’d be like 35-7 or 35-10,” said Kiffin on the field after the game (via David Hale). “I didn’t know they’d be that dysfunctional on offense.”
Kiffin also made the comment about LSU’s scout team outscoring Clemson to ESPN’s Laura Rutledge.
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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Lane Kiffin did something that LSU fans have never seen happen in a football game, even though he hinted that he wouldn't
Lane Kiffin did something that LSU fans have never seen happen in a football game, even though he hinted that he wouldn't
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Lane Kiffin did something that LSU fans have never seen happen in a football game, even though he hinted that he wouldn’t
There’s truly no one quite like LSU Tigers head coach Lane Kiffin, and fans in Baton Rouge got the full experience during the season-opening win over Clemson.
A couple of weeks before the season started, LSU head coach Lane Kiffin hinted that the Tigers’ sideline wouldn’t have too many gimmicks.
Well, I guess he changed his mind.
And I think it’s a good thing.
LSU’s sideline was electric during the 51-10 win over Clemson on Saturday night in Baton Rouge, and there were a couple of fun gimmicks.
We saw Kiffin’s Ole Miss teams have a similar energy in the past (though LSU was more electric).
What we haven’t seen, though, is Kiffin taking a jump shot in the middle of the game.
Kiffin, as he did at Ole Miss, has a basketball goal on the sideline to celebrate big plays.
At one point during the win over Clemson, Kiffin took a 20-foot jumper as LSU was kicking an extra point.
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He just makes me laugh.
If he was our coach I'd cringe like hell but I love watching him for other teams
If he was our coach I'd cringe like hell but I love watching him for other teams
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If he can win big I’d be like how he feels after banging out 3 19 year old sorority sisters:
Don’t care had sex
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i was never a fan of Lane, and he wasn’t my first choice when we made this hire.
but i gotta give him credit.
he is who he is. he doesn’t even try to hide it.
he just embraces it and moves on.
and i’ll be honest.
I’d rather have a Kiffin who is out in the open about it than a Dabo trying to act high and mighty when cameras are rolling.
but i gotta give him credit.
he is who he is. he doesn’t even try to hide it.
he just embraces it and moves on.
and i’ll be honest.
I’d rather have a Kiffin who is out in the open about it than a Dabo trying to act high and mighty when cameras are rolling.
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