Lane Kiffin fails miserably while trying to troll two former teams he walked out on
There’s no one in the college football coaching world who plays the social media game better than Lane Kiffin. Depending on who you ask, this is either his greatest superpower or his biggest strike against him.
Most would agree that his latest social media effort was a swing and a miss.
Sharing more motivational quotes and messages than your chronically online middle-aged aunt on X, Kiffin chose to tag Ole Miss and Tennessee’s official football accounts with his latest post on Saturday.
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Lane Kiffin speaks at a press conference where he is introduced as the new head football coach of the LSU Tigers at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La., on Dec. 1, 2025. (Tyler Kaufman/Getty Images)
“Think about this for a second,” Kiffin wrote with a photo that read, “Imagine how boring your life would be if I didn’t have me bothering you.”
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On the surface, it’s a strange move for LSU’s 50-year-old multimillionaire head coach to hit the Internet on a random Saturday in late April. When you add in the fact that Kiffin left the head coaching job at Tennessee in 2010 and Ole Miss left just a few months earlier, we see the behavior go from outlandish to legitimately irrational.
LSU head coach Lane Kiffin stands next to Louisiana State Tigers athletic director Verge Ausberry before a game against the Houston Cougars on Dec. 27, 2025, at NRG Stadium. (Maria Lysaker/Imagn Images)
Kiffin left Ole Miss days before the program made its first College Football Playoff appearance, transforming him from a man many believed deserved a statue in Oxford to making Tommy Tuberville the most hated man in the history of the Rebels’ football program.
While Kiffin got what he wanted from the post on X, which meant hours of endless interaction, he still received some serious and relatively justified backlash from people online.
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Kiffin is entering his first season as the Tigers’ head coach, but expectations in Baton Rouge are already sky-high for the first-year LSU squad, due in large part to the success the Tigers had at Ole Miss, one of their toughest rivals in the SEC.
Lane Kiffin speaks during his introductory press conference as head coach of the LSU Tigers at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La., on Dec. 1, 2025. (Gus Stark/LSU/University Images)
LSU will travel to Ole Miss on Sept. 19 and Tennessee on Nov. 21 next season. To say that both programs, and more importantly both fan bases, want revenge on their former coaches would be a huge understatement.
