Sometimes in sports, certain outcomes seem like formalities.
Stephen Curry swishing a 3-pointer. Cristiano Ronaldo scoring from the penalty spot. Most recently, the Philadelphia Eagles' tush push gaining a yard. And when Lane Kiffin leaves a job, things will likely get messy.
Kiffin is one of college football's top coaches. He has won 55 games in six years in Oxford and this season has guided Ole Miss to what is all but certain to be its first College Football Playoff appearance.
There's one problem — he won't coach in that Playoff. On Saturday, one day after the Rebels beat hated rivals Mississippi State to cap the first 11-win season in program history, news broke that Kiffin will be taking the LSU job after weeks of speculation. Kiffin made it official with a statement Sunday on X. Defensive coordinator Pete Golding is expected to be the «permanent» head coach at Ole Miss, according to ESPN's Pete Thamel, guiding the program through the postseason.
Kiffin has more coaching jobs in the past two decades than many of his counterparts combined. He has been in the Pac-12, NFL, SEC and Conference USA. He has called plays for Nick Saban and Pete Carroll. But among Kiffin's many jobs over the past 20 years, one thing tends to be consistent: When he moves on to the next gig, things aren't especially harmonious.
While the dust is still settling on this latest edition of Kiffin's job changes, it seems all but certain it will go down as another memorable — and messy — departure. Here's a brief recap of Kiffin's assorted breakups over the years.
2008, Oakland Raiders: «He conned me»
You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who took a faster track to an NFL head coaching gig than Kiffin. Hired by the Raiders at just 31 years old with
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