Lane Kiffin posts cryptic message day after taking LSU head-coaching job

Lane Kiffin made a cryptic station connected Monday greeting arsenic the assemblage shot satellite deals with the aftermath of his determination to permission Ole Miss to instrumentality the LSU Tigers’ head-coaching job.

Kiffin announced his determination to permission the Rebels arsenic the squad is apt going to participate the College Football Playoff for the archetypal clip successful schoolhouse history. Meanwhile, LSU volition person to commencement again with a caller caput manager and anticipation to rebuild into the title powerhouse it erstwhile was.

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Ole Miss Rebels caput manager Lane Kiffin successful the 4th fourth against the Arkansas Razorbacks astatine Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium connected Nov. 2, 2024. (Nelson Chenault/Imagn Images)

The manager made a station connected X to commencement the day.

"Exhale. Have the champion Monday ever," helium wrote, adding, "#GodsPlan."

With the post, Kiffin attached a photograph from a motivational book.

"Let the seams unravel and betterment your full beingness the mode you truly intended for it to be," the transition read. "When you are forced to fto go, you are besides asked to exhale. What does not clasp is not meant to. If you are not certain, wait. Time reveals each truth, each knowing, each world that volition comes to be. It volition each go clear."

Kiffin told ESPN connected Sunday arsenic helium was leaving for Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that the determination to permission Ole Miss was "challenging."

He said helium wanted to enactment and manager Ole Miss done the postseason.

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Mississippi State fans clasp signs referencing Ole Miss caput manager Lane Kiffin’s imaginable departure during the Mississippi State and Ole Miss crippled astatine Davis Wade Stadium successful Starkville, connected Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. (Ayrton Breckenridge/Clarion Ledger/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

"We went done a batch past nighttime with (Ole Miss diversion director) Keith Carter trying to fig retired a mode to marque this playoff tally enactment and beryllium capable to manager the team. And astatine the extremity of the day, that's his determination and I wholly respect that. I recognize that decision," helium said.

"I conscionable wholly privation the squad the champion of luck, privation that I was coaching.... I conscionable anticipation they play truly good and spell triumph the nationalist championship."

He added that helium reached retired to Las Vegas Raiders caput manager Pete Carroll and erstwhile Alabama Crimson Tide manager Nick Saban earlier making his decision.

"My bosom was here. But I talked to immoderate mentors – manager Carroll, manager Saban. Especially erstwhile manager Carroll said, 'Your dada would archer you to go. Take the shot.'

"I ever hated however we gave it 1 twelvemonth astatine Tennessee and left. I hated that feeling of that. I deliberation we gave a batch to this programme and to this metropolis and immoderate of those historical wins successful this stadium, champion regular play successful the past of the school. So, I'm arrogant of that part. But it conscionable became time. I talked to God, and helium told maine it's clip to instrumentality a caller step. It's a caller chapter."

Ole Miss named antiaircraft coordinator Pete Golding its caput manager to regenerate Kiffin.

Ole Miss Rebels caput manager Lane Kiffin speaks to the media during SEC Media Day astatine Omni Atlanta Hotel connected July 14, 2025. (Jordan Godfree/Imagn Images)

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Kiffin guided Ole Miss to its 11th triumph of the play implicit Mississippi State successful the Egg Bowl.

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