“My phone was not ringing very much at the time after USC, and that was a very humbling experience after being let go there and to go through that process. You start calling a lot of people that don't call you back all of a sudden, and you realize things about people.”

American football coach

Lane Monte Kiffin is an American football coach and the head coach of the LSU Tigers. He has worked across both college football and the NFL, with a career that includes head coaching jobs at the Oakland Raiders, Tennessee Volunteers, USC Trojans, Florida Atlantic Owls, and Ole Miss Rebels. Kiffin has been known for leading programs in prominent conferences and for moving between professional and collegiate football. His career has centered on coaching, team leadership, and building offenses, though the provided facts focus mainly on the jobs he has held rather than on specific achievements or style.