The many lives of Lane Kiffin: 'I'm really trying to make it not about me'

"E60: The Many Lives of Lane Kiffin," debuts Wednesday, astatine 7 p.m. ET connected ESPN. An extended mentation volition beryllium disposable afterward connected the ESPN App. Fans tin besides ticker the programme successful the authoritative streaming hub.

The beingness of a shot manager is 1 spent perpetually searching for a amended pathway. That's wherefore they walk specified a important percent of their lives sitting successful acheronian rooms, watching the aforesaid play implicit and implicit again. Searching for an opening. Scanning their opponents for adjacent the tiniest cracks oregon tells. A constant, never-ending pursuit of thing and everything that volition assistance their eventual extremity of guardant progress.

For Lane Kiffin, everything is crippled film. How helium works his job, present successful his sixth play arsenic caput shot manager astatine Ole Miss, successful arguably the top epoch of occurrence successful the program's 132-year history. How helium works connected himself, having turned 50 successful May and down that galore pounds, acknowledgment to a strict diet, a self-imposed intoxicant prohibition and a regular dose of blistery yoga. And however helium works with his family, reconnecting with 3 children and adjacent his ex-wife, each portion hiring his member arsenic an adjunct coach, with whom helium shares a backyard border, and having said goodbye to each of his parents implicit the past 2 summers.

He studies it all. Just arsenic diligently arsenic helium has studied Saturday's opponent, SEC and Magnolia Bowl rival LSU (Saturday, 3:30 p.m. ET, ABC). And that survey isn't constricted to the contiguous day. It besides includes his past. Perhaps the astir public, polarizing, but besides misunderstood past of immoderate shot manager of this century. A biography that is overmuch excessively analyzable to beryllium told successful specified chapters but alternatively would necessitate full volumes.

Fresno State backup QB-turned-undergrad adjunct coach. USC assistant-turned-then-youngest-ever NFL caput coach. Tennessee caput coach-turned-Big Orange nationalist force No. 1. USC caput coach-turned-guy fired connected the tarmac. Nick Saban mentee-turned-guy dismissed the week of the natty. Ole Miss caput coach-turned-second accidental father.

Kiffin goes into item astir each of those stops successful "E60: The Many Lives of Lane Kiffin," a communicative that yet lands successful his existent life.

"I deliberation there's things successful beingness that you do, that you marque mistakes," Kiffin explains. "I telephone them self-inflicted wounds. Then there's things, you really are truly trying to spell supra and beyond to bash the close thing, and it conscionable doesn't work."

Those mistakes thin to overshadow those close things. At immoderate constituent implicit these six years successful Oxford, portion astir were inactive rewatching Al Davis's one-hour slideshow presumption explaining "I didn't prosecute the idiosyncratic I thought I was hiring" successful 2008 oregon Tennessee students mounting mattresses ablaze to chants of "F--- Lane Kiffin!" portion the household fled Knoxville for Southern California 1 twelvemonth later, the manager truthful galore person loved to hatred evolved. He grew up. The punk kid turned into ... an elder statesman?

"It didn't usage to fuss maine due to the fact that I was benignant of like, man, I'm doing this my mode and I don't attraction what anybody thinks," Kiffin says of however radical comprehend him. "I deliberation arsenic I've gotten older present and kids, they turn older, I've cared a small much conscionable due to the fact that I'm like, that's your legacy, similar what radical say, you know?

"I utilized to conscionable beryllium like, hey, you cognize what? If you don't enactment here, your sentiment doesn't matter. So what these radical constitute astir the country, not conscionable fans, but adjacent writers that don't genuinely screen america and they privation to constitute Lane Kiffin's similar this and he's truthful unspeakable and helium doesn't attraction astir this, and he's got nary respect for authorization and each these things, they don't know. That did not fuss maine astatine all. And now, I conscionable would similar to alteration that communicative truly for bequest and for kids and grandkids."

How does 1 bash that? By looking backmost connected their clip arsenic 1 of those kids. Kiffin was raised successful locker rooms and connected si...