Lane Kiffin

Basketball totally unsees it

And then baseball you have a system where, look at your national champion Oklahoma

Really athletic. Remind of old Alabama defense and guys that can make plays on the ball with length and twitch

I was like, well, if someone thinks the SEC wants us to win this year after what’s been going on, they must have just been on Mars the last four months

As much as the play of him [matters], it’s the feeling. You just feel different when he’s there

Now the confidence really turns on if you can really just run away from people like that

[I] just felt like it was a really good matchup game for us. Just through the week, watching tape, and [seeing] how we match up with them

The game plan was to make [Brown] throw and stop the run. And I think when you do that, you can look really good

We haven’t won one on the road at LSU in 24 months

We’re going to have to play really well and be ready to play in a really loud environment that they play really well at

[He’s] really hard player to tackle

We’re going to have to play really well and be ready to play in a really loud environment

Really hard player to tackle

We’re gonna have our hands full

So, really good day, especially after last week

So, Sam really played well for someone that was not 100 percent, obviously, in moving around, and threw the ball really well

I’m really proud of our defense for shutting them out. Going 0-for-5 on fourth down was obviously really critical and challenged our guys after last week

This team was built to be a championship team with significant players and starters that I still see can match up with anybody if we were healthy

We do really good things and then we don’t finish drives on both sides of the ball well enough to have that type of stat

He’s a problem in both areas when he is healthy and able to run the ball. We just played him where we were at. He makes really good plays, especially late in the game when he starts running around and obviously he’s much better in year two

It was good to see a lot of guys make plays

Corey’s done a great job

These [injuries] that are season-ending, of players that have major roles, they just affect a lot

Yeah, I have been going through that all day yesterday

We have a toss to the running back that’s going to walk into the endzone and tight end doesn’t block the defensive end, we still made five yards but, it was going to walk in the end zone

Those are the ones you struggle with because a lot of the times their four point plays

Very explosive and fast

Very explosive, fast, you know you watch them. You know they missed a few of them last week, you know they’re really hard to deal with out of breaks, and they do a great job kind of taking off from where they got people open a year ago and were a problem for people as you guys saw, so we’re going to have our hands full

When you play at home, at night, you play better.

Well, this is a big test; we’ve struggled with him before. I think we led the country in rush defense, but that hasn’t been against a lot of quarterback-schemed runs.

They went through a lot, and some players have played there. One feeling about that happening and losing the game. On the other hand was right there to be won.

(Ole Miss) rushed really well, and Echoles, I thought, played a really good game

All week, my biggest fear every minute was, you know, when the games at the end and Trinidad has the ball in his hand and the guy made a lot of plays during the game

I’ll be criticized for saying that, but yeah I am

Six years here and a lot of things and a lot of life-changing experiences and a lot of really good people that helped me through some really hard times

We’ll go back and look at the tape

I think you walked into a storm

Neither seemed really well

Same thing [Georgia head coach Kirby Smart] said in the games last year: you can have these calls and you can do great things and then, you know, he calls them ‘Houdini plays’

The pressure is on them

He can’t be wherever it was at this recruit’s house, he’s on my couch. I just saw him walk in.

I guess there’s real safety issues and stuff. So, there’s people that have a plan for that. It is what it is

Really, the pressure is on them

We won seven games last year; they won 13

There’s not always a winner and a loser

That says to me it’s the most relevant matchup of these two teams in 64 years

When we got there, they had won four games (in 2019). And when we got here eight months ago, (the Tigers) were 7-6

I’m sure both places are already worried about leaks within the building getting game plans out

I know, obviously, a lot's going to be made about me

You know, we got to execute better. Sam’s got to do a better job, take care of it all. You know, we made a lot of yards, and we were smooth through that at times, but obviously, the red zone work is where you got to finish drives.

Maybe it was perfect for us, you know, that we needed something like that, because in the game, we played well on offense and he was 70 to 7 or something. Maybe it’s what we needed.

We have to win the game regardless of what that looks like

We’re in a good place, winning by 31 points and being really upset, you know, we got a good standard going

To watch defensive tackles chase the ball and get it out, it was awesome to see

Maybe it was perfect for us; maybe we needed something like that because if we play good on offense and the game is 70-7 or something, we don’t have attention

We’ve got to execute better

Now that I understand the [No.] 7 and what those guys talk about, when you need to play

The first team was really lights out, It’s almost like you felt like they were gonna get turnovers on every possession

We had over 300 yards rushing, we had no sacks, but at the same time Sam got us out of trouble a couple times

It’s not [usually] a high rank recruit, but some guy that’s just big, strong, fast and you’re like, ‘Man, that’s a backup at LSU?’ And every time you looked it up, you’re like yeah, some three-star player from Louisiana

I don’t believe you practice poorly and just play great in games

A lot of times to do great things, you're going to be hated

Sam had a great camp

The question whether, myself, as the head coach of football, will follow SEC orders. I said it earlier this morning when asked, of course we will

This is how it works at the next level

All we’re waiting for is clarity this week from the SEC, which they can’t give final clarity until Thursday’s ruling

(Recruits would say), ‘Hey coach, we really like you, but my grandparents aren’t letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi,’

There’s no intent, nor there ever was to play somebody that were not supposed to over SEC rule

Every minute of last week was exactly like every minute of this week but the fans

Everyone of them was emphatic about, if they can help us win, bring them

I can’t predict on Junior and Dae’Quan being this early in the week what that would look like, obviously there’s still new information to come with Thursday and what the SEC guides us to do

Again even if it’s a couple players that don’t even start, if it makes your team better and it’s legal to do and your players want it, I’ll take the hit publicly for it

When you come to watch, that’s an exciting team to watch, that plays really good football and they really master situations, they’re really well coached, they have a style about how they play, which I think we’ve done at previous places

We retooled [the offensive] room almost from top to bottom, and it’s been very competitive

They were granted a fifth year by a judge, saying they were wronged by the NCAA

In my opinion, knowing the information, it’s really wrong to be critical of these kids

At the end of the day, because of these rulings, they’re either going to play for you or they’re going to play somewhere else around the country

This a very unique circumstance

I feeling like we’re really coming along

These kids should, if they get a fifth year, they should [be able to] go wherever they want. Any conference, anywhere

When a kid’s promised something to come to a school, he should wear it

I thought Sam had a great day today

Sam’s been moving around really well

It’s not coach speak — I don’t give coach speak — I don’t deal with it at all

And I think for recruits and recruits’ parents, I don’t think any of them don’t see why I did what I did

I wish I would have gone in when I met with Keith and said, ‘I’ve made the decision to go,'

Yeah, I do (regret it)

I guess (so), in that I hope that some way for future coaches, they’re not put in that situation

I made a challenging decision and change

It just made me reflect on, I can’t be so concerned about little things and what people say

Knox pushing me to do that, challenging me, allowed me to help other players, friends, coaches to say, 'Man, you should try this sometime, because once you remove something from your life, you start to realize how many other people are addicted to it or need it,'

I kind of feel like there’s some Jaxson in there

It’s been really freeing because what you do at the end of the day is you don’t compare anything. … (And) comparison is the thief of joy

That doesn’t come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana

A lot goes into these decisions

It just seemed like the perfect time to bring him back

I think with them getting paid, I don’t think that’s as challenging

’Hey, coach, we really like you. But my grandparents aren’t letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi.’ That doesn’t come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana

In a four-hour interview, I was asked a lot of questions on a lot of things, and Ole Miss has been wonderful to me and my family

I was asked questions about the differences in recruiting, and I said a narrative that we battled there from some out-of-state Black parents and grandparents was not wanting their kid to move to Mississippi. That’s a narrative that coaches have been fighting forever. It wasn’t calculated by bringing it up.

Our building’s open to former players, and I’ve talked to a number of them

It was really neat to see JaMarcus

I just stopped the spring game a few years ago

Don’t mistake because you see me doing things around the community, or a parade, or Mardi Gras, or a concert that there isn’t relentless pursuit of greatness here and effort in the way that we work and the amount of time spent in this office

His skill set is ultra-elite. But so is his mindset. And that’s really, really unique to have, because they usually don’t coincide

It’s a sport guys. Stop attacking each other personally and each others families. Move on and both sides just enjoy what they have. Make a grateful list of what you have this morning and focus on that and not what you don’t have

Coach Saban kinda coached at another place in this conference, so I can’t really say exactly what he said