Lane Kiffin And LSU Deserve Each Other

It does not take long to assess Lane Kiffin's time at LSU, and not just because it hasn't begun yet. He has decided yet again to see how far into the campfire he can stick his face, and this time has chosen a bessemer furnace to test his hide. Put another way, Kiffin has brought the concept of heatedly saying the word "hoe" back into mainstream conversation, which is more than can be said for any other coach in any other job. This is true even though, to some extent, they all approach job-seeking the same way.

LSU is the 11th coaching job Kiffin has had in this century, including his assistant's gigs. It is also almost certainly the job that will break him, because LSU football is the place where insanity goes to get its doctorate. In that sense, it's an ideal fit for Kiffin, who is the perfection of shamelessness before he is anything else. Nothing interests him quite as much as the full-length mirror, and we know this because he is currently leaving the team he has led into the college football tournament to go not recruit players at the new job. He doesn't want to do any of that, and won't have to; LSU knows, as all SEC schools do, that recruiting is done with financial planners rather than position coaches.