lol what !! That was after the first practice. How this Team looks that day and game 1 before Clemson will be totally different. It’s not like lsu had no talent lol. The funniest part was this wasn’t an lsu fan that asked this.
Fo sure. Good thing no GAME day 2 of practice. Now lets see what happens going forward. By end of spring ball CK will be leading band down Victory Hill.
He was saying that because he was in day two of spring camp. He hasn't even seen his team in pads yet. So he was telling the reporters to chill out because he hasn't even gotten everybody on the same page yet. He hasn't taught the offense everything yet. The team should not look like a well-oiled machine on day two of spring camp. What Lane Kiffin said was perfectly reasonable.
I heard it too. It was aimed more at the press asking about players and goals before he finished his 2nd day of practice. This is just stinkin' clickbait.
Especially at LSU. This was always the danger leaving Ole Miss for the LSU job, he will have less job security inherently. Ole Miss would’ve literally renamed the school for Coach O if he did there what he did at LSU.
Expectations are always going to be high and he never said they shouldn’t be! He just was telling the press to be patient with team evaluations from him! Also anytime you have a new head coach even if you pay him 100m a year it dosnt change the fact it’s still a new staff and team that take time to build into an elite program! All real lsu fans know this and aren’t at all upset about these comments!
LSU fan here. I am glad that Kiffin was hired. I am patient in seeing the process play out. Losing that many players plus basically a new OL along with key positions on offense means it will take time to gel. I don't think a NC in year 1 is feasible. If 9-3 is the final record, I would be happy. It is a tough schedule to navigate with new coaching staff and players. If 9-3 is good enough for CFP, great. If miss it but go to a decent bowl, the future will be setup nicely.
This quote was actually from his press conference last week. Yesterday, he made another comment about it taking time to get to an elite level when asked if he thought his team was "on schedule" for spring practice... He also followed up with "I didn't say YEARS, I just said it takes some time." Also, to clarify - only 2 players on this team have played in his offence, which just happens to be one of the fastest tempo, highest paced in the country. He hasn't shied away from the expectations from Day 1, regardless of how everyone is trying to paint it. As expectations go, I'm not committing to any certain number of wins or losses... To me, what matters is how it looks on the field. Having attended games last year where the product on the field did NOT look like LSU football should look, THAT is what matters to me. Games can be won and lost by the bounce of a ball or a ref's bad call. But if the offense is constantly going 3 and out, barely scoring, and the defense is the only hope of winning the game (like last year), that will be unacceptable imo. There can't be any repeats of Texas A&M.
I live here in Baton Rouge as an Alabama fan. This is exactly how most of the fan base thinks. They want Nick Saban Results without Him. This is why they got Lane. This is as close as they can get. SMH.
I should’ve waited til the end of the video lol my bad Josh. Point taken. At around the 2:30 mark, I agree with your point until last year…. Curt Cignetti ruined that for future head coaches lol unfortunately now there is actually a push for pay-to-win coaching year to year
I think the comment the questionnaire is referring to came later. "Kiffin said it takes time, and before y'all get mad. I'm not talking years, but it takes time" He was basically saying, give me a month and ask the question again
I would revise Georgie's statement to be something along the lines of "...you can ask for patience OR you can ask for $13M a year AND $40M for your roster, but you don't get both at a place like LSU..."
He is given no patience because he played Ole Miss like a fiddle, left an actual playoff team for this new squad, and sabotaged said playoff team while seeking to steal all their thunder and headlines.
He allowed his offensive staff to return to Oxvegas to coach CFP. That's AFTER the om ad BEGGED him. If he wanted to sabotage the runts season he would have said NO.
@darrylsevier6121 You ever catch their locked on dude? He never met an om player or recruit that wasn't an All American or a 5*. They all just the BEST there is. It was really bad till a couple of weeks ago. NEVER stopped talking about CK and LSU. He had MORE LSU fans watching/commenting than runt fans.
6:23 yes we would - you get paid based off performance at any job Josh - if you get paid the minimum they require AT LEAST the minimum from you get paid more they expect more wtf are you talking about.
I think he gets patience. I mean if they put up embarrassing losses the headlines will pop up. I think outside of disaster, he gets 3 years to get into that top 8 team tier.
There's this feeling in the college world that LSU is "quick" to fire its head coaches. Depends on your definition of quick I guess. In the modern era, we've had 5 years, fired; 5 years, resigned; 12 years, fired; 6 years, fired; 4 years fired. You go back to the 70s and we had Charlie Mac for 18 years. We want to hire a coach and leave him and we tried with miles but well .... Even with Kiffen preaching patience, I don't think he's talking about more than 4 years, he's just trying to pull everyone back from lofty, unrealistic expectations for his first year. And I think that's fair.
Lane is correct. But so is the person asking the question. Expectations are very high, realistically or not. If there isn’t significant improvement over last year, he is going to hear all about it. Part of that is Lane’s fault, with his cocky attitude.
The adverb begging tends to lead to negative thoughts that aren't necessarily true. For example: Nick Saban begged his fans to.... Get the point? Every new coach tells his/her fan base to be patient.
I really don't think it's about if LSU will be patent with kiffin but if Kiffin will be patient with LSU or just take the first 14 million $ job he's offered. The reputations seem to be weighing that direction
Watching the BK regime squander talent and uninvent offensive scheme has fried the brains of most of the fanbase. Josh is right AND as an LSU fan, I totally empathize with the “surely THIS is enough to make a run.”
LSU fan here. Just have to say, our fanbase is unrealistic about timing of things very often. I think Kiffin is simply trying to temper expectations for the first season, and rightly so. The first season of a coach's tenure doesn't always speak to the future of that coach's tenure at a place. Year 1 was pretty rough with Saban, but he's the greatest to ever do it. In contrast, Brian Kelly had his best season with LSU in Year 1, and we all know how that turned out. I had no problem with what he said, nor do I think him tempering expectations is unwise.
With the amount of talent that LSU puts in the NFL, arguably places the highest grade NFL talent of any college, that should come with expectations. At least a 9-3 year. CFP seed would be a success, not even have to win a game in CFP. Les Miles won a nati and went 0-12 at Kansas a few seasons after. Coach O won a nati with 'the greatest team of all time' and was 9-25 as Ole Miss head coach. This shouldn't be that difficult of a job.
Not with a $40,000,000 roster-boosters put up and expect him to deliver year one with that kind of investment-so how quickly can he get chemistry with this roster? This isn’t the old days when’re you get 4-5 years; not with Cignetti made noise year one and got a ring year two … in Indiana, no less.
Considering all but a handful of all those portal adds have MULTIPLE years left. LSU is setup for an indi run. Very good year 1. Make CFP. EXPLODE year 2 and WIN the whole damn thing.
He was saying that because he was in day two of spring camp. He hasn't even seen his team in pads yet. So he was telling the reporters to chill out because he hasn't even gotten everybody on the same page yet. He hasn't taught the offense everything yet. The team should not look like a well-oiled machine on day two of spring camp. What Lane Kiffin said was perfectly reasonable.
After several stupid questions, Kiffin embarrassed the press by telling them to be patient, so they deflected the impatience accusation at the fans. Kiffin was not talking about his players, the program's progress, or the fans; he was speaking directly to the hyperventilating press!
He’s obviously talking about the fact that there’s a mountain of work to be done between now and the season. This is ridiculous. And, to be honest, the expectation should be to field a team that is as complete as possible since the last several years the team has been a disjointed mess. If LSU goes 9-3 and is just outside the playoffs but they look like they know what the hell they’re doing and like there isn’t a massive liability in the coaches’ box, that should suffice for year one. If LSU looks like crap and is getting blown out by the likes of Florida, it’s a problem.
10-2 = floor! Necessarily!! Brian Kelly barely showed up for work, barely recruited, coasted his first 3 years and had regular season wins: *9; *9; *8. It is entirely reasonable to expect Kiffin to win at least 10 with a $40M+ roster. 10-2 LSU vs 2026 schedule is a playoff team. Spot the ball!! 🐅💜💛
People are saying most Lsu fans aren't that way ,are most Lsu fans paying for this roster? No only rich boosters who demand instant results and have zero patience.
This is not exclusive to sports, if you pay more for a service you expect better service. I think that’s pretty universal. Fancy cars have to be better. Kiffin knew what he was getting into, but as you said none of that matters because it’s not like LSU can fire him anyway. Still we are way more lenient with sports than the real world. Just try doing a contract holdout working in a normal industry, see how that goes for you. The schools are overpaying but ultimately that’s their problem.
@FredPitre-o4bI can't because I'm not at their practices and I don't keep up with LSU's injury list. As a head coach, you're with the team every day at practice, so he has to see some weaknesses in the team and what the position coaches are saying, too. Plus if you like what you see in spring practice, he should have been more confident in his team.
@Austen-t6o How bout this my partner. CLK was speaking directly to his offense. There are 40 players give or take on offensive side the ball. ALL of 2 of them have prior time in CLK offense. Sure there will be a learning curve and need time to get acclimated to it. That why they practice. CLK has NO concerns with the defense. His biggest get of all offseason was NOT a player but retaining one of the BEST DCs in the country Blake Baker. His LSU defense was much MUCH better than record indicates. They will be IMPROVED this year.
LSU definitely need to be more patient. We are going full blown tribal over here wanting instant results or else. This patch work portal team isn't winning a championship this year.
If you pay a premium for a service, you expect premium results. If you go cheap, you dont care as much about the results. Me-Ma didn't know how to handle money, i see. Is a Pate State education even close to a juco, lol.
@nikivory6891Lane is a Genius apparently, so He needs to have a Run Game, and Weapons for Sam Leavitt immediately. He should win 10 Games with Blake Baker’s defense at worst. Brian Kelly got under pressure because he didn’t win 10 games.
You need to define patience! They want SEC titles and natties so Lane needs to get one in say 3 years or the patience will be long gone. LSU did not sign up for the 8 year plan😅 Good luck, he may quite within 5 years!
It’s not even the Salary though, he asking for patience from the public, which is not the problem. When your school is spending over 40 million on your roster it’s the school you’re gonna have issues with if you don’t deliver.
LSU spent 95 million to hire Brian Kelly just to eventually fire him. Then turned around and spent 91 million to hire Lane Kiffin, lol. Lane has three to four years to get it right starting this season coming up. If Lane doesn’t work out then LSU will have one of the biggest financial blunders in sports.
As much money that was spent on their roster it really is nc or bust. Any coach that gets that money for a roster multiple years would win so yes there is no patience
Wow, you’re such a lsu homer. Open your eyes Josh pate. You can’t leave a program because you say you can’t win like a natty there and then go to the next program and say hey relax, we gotta be patient to win. No no no, you came to win, don’t be scared or the pressure now that comes with the bigger brighter program
Kinda acting like Brian Kelly burned LSU to the ground and so Kiffin deserves time to rebuild it. The place had a Heisman, won the SEC West, and beat Saban. They weren’t 7-6 every year for the past 20 years. Does he deserve time? Yes. Will he get it? Hell no.
He was saying that because he was in day two of spring camp. He hasn't even seen his team in pads yet. So he was telling the reporters to chill out because he hasn't even gotten everybody on the same page yet. He hasn't taught the offense everything yet. The team should not look like a well-oiled machine on day two of spring camp. What Lane Kiffin said was perfectly reasonable.
Yes, he’ll get a period of time. That’s just common sense. We LSU fans aren’t stupid. We are excited, but we aren’t unrealistic. (Btw-Brian Kelly did screw up the program-he had money, talent, etc..but everyone can see what that program degenerated too by the Texas A&M game in Tiger Stadium!! Talk about a completely demoralized program and fanbase.)
The expectations of a 150k employee vs a 45k are vastly different. College coaches are no different, to sit here and argue that it is not a factor is ridiculous. We get it Josh, you’re super enlightened and nuanced, however, 99% of the college football fanbase you pander to is not.
I think Georgie meant everyone praising LSU for being a top 5 program and LSU spending 40 MILLION DOLLARS on a roster and the idea of LSU not winning a Natty and ppl like Josh being ok with that outcome is a bit backwards and backtracking of their comments made when he left Ole Miss. All we want is to acknowledge that LSU expects greater than what it really is. The coach with the highest winning percentage career record couldn’t get LSU a natty and Lane Kiffin will fall short as well.
Just the next program to be left burning in Lanes rear view mirror. Not one place he has been to would welcome him back for and afyernoon brunch let alone anywhere near their school.
Nah this is a public relations error. Patience is the wrong word. It makes it feel like Lane Kiffin is already starting his bs. You get all the pressure and expectations of coaching at a major program with big boosters and resources. People know you might not be a finalist year one, but you don't want to come out in spring practice like this. Take notes from Sumrall at Florida.
I know Josh loves him some LSU! But Brian Kelly (who Josh did luv but is now stepping back from) let the Tigah out of the bag 😂 You don't get patience when you get 13 million and a 40 million dollar roster! Especially at a place like LSU! They ain't paying Lane for pithy social media posts 😂
The LSU baseball team has won 2 of the last 3 national championships. They were said to have a good recruiting class and a good portal class this year, but it looks doubtful they will be a contender this year. So, by this person's logic, Jay Johnson would be a failure, and that is just dumb. Lane can go 8-4 but win a title in the next couple of years, and no one would say what they are saying now.
He would be fine if he didnt run his mouth all the time, thats why nobody spares him. He has something to say about everything and everyone else and what they are doing constantly
when you go on an on about how it's "just different" at LSU because of the financial resources and the brand, and then you construct the most expensive college football roster ever as you bask in people stroking your ego for being a football genius (which he is), you don't get the luxury of patience. Again, ESPECIALLY when you wont stfu about how it's "just different". don't walk it back now
He was saying that because he was in day two of spring camp. He hasn't even seen his team in pads yet. So he was telling the reporters to chill out because he hasn't even gotten everybody on the same page yet. He hasn't taught the offense everything yet. The team should not look like a well-oiled machine on day two of spring camp. What Lane Kiffin said was perfectly reasonable.
Pretty sure that was day one of SPRING. He still has to teach the players how he wants his offense to function. That’s all he was saying. But because your feelings are hurt you are being irrational like a child.
Lane Kiffin is not right. He left a program because the opportunity to succeed was so much better, right? In his own words he didn’t even look at the contract, right? He can’t back down on what he sold to LSU for $13mil and the ridiculous amount he spent on his 26 roster vs 25 roster. He is expected to come hot out of the gates and LSU deserves it for their level of commitment
Ypou don't drop the kind of money that LSU did, and then expect to wait. It is win now or be fired. Period. Kiffin already making excuses, and he has none that are legit. And no, you are not correct Josh. You keep harping about the $13 million salary, which isn't even the issue. Its the $40-$50 million spent on the roster.
This has to be April Fools rage bait. If I’m paying a chef $50 to make me a steak and another chef $500 to make a steak that $500 steak better be a slice of heaven what are we talking about Josh 😂
You must be starving for clicks, lane did not beg lsu fans for patience. Ppl please giv watch the presser he did tues. And you would see he wasn't "begging" for patience
“It’s just different” if you are making that your catch phrase, getting paid 13 million dollars annually despite having not a single natty, sec champ, or playoff wins, and are spending roughly the 30 million dollars a year in NIL on your team, you better win and fast
lol, good luck with this take Jersh.
He saw how bad they were that first practice and wants to set realistic expectations.
lol what !! That was after the first practice. How this Team looks that day and game 1 before Clemson will be totally different. It’s not like lsu had no talent lol. The funniest part was this wasn’t an lsu fan that asked this.
Fo sure. Good thing no GAME day 2 of practice. Now lets see what happens going forward. By end of spring ball CK will be leading band down Victory Hill.
Similar to your comment? Clueless troll you are…..
It’s funny how many LSU fans you triggered
@ShermansMarchBurnTheSouthlol yup! Crazy comments get crazy responses 😂 nah let me stop.
2:34 the conundrum you speak of is “Indiana” Georgie is correct you do not get both at LSU
Am I crazy? Hes obviously talking about patience from spring practice to week 1? Right?
You're not crazy. Most fans are just morons that react completely off emotions.
He was saying that because he was in day two of spring camp. He hasn't even seen his team in pads yet. So he was telling the reporters to chill out because he hasn't even gotten everybody on the same page yet. He hasn't taught the offense everything yet. The team should not look like a well-oiled machine on day two of spring camp. What Lane Kiffin said was perfectly reasonable.
Obviously he was saying that. Only an emotional kid would interpret that differently.
That's how I read his comments.
I heard it too. It was aimed more at the press asking about players and goals before he finished his 2nd day of practice. This is just stinkin' clickbait.
Here we go 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Sounds like he attended the Hugh Freeze school of press conferences
😂😂😂😂
Indiana literally did it in one year the second year they won the national championship
More money = higher expectations. In any industry. At any level.
Especially at LSU. This was always the danger leaving Ole Miss for the LSU job, he will have less job security inherently. Ole Miss would’ve literally renamed the school for Coach O if he did there what he did at LSU.
Expectations are always going to be high and he never said they shouldn’t be! He just was telling the press to be patient with team evaluations from him! Also anytime you have a new head coach even if you pay him 100m a year it dosnt change the fact it’s still a new staff and team that take time to build into an elite program! All real lsu fans know this and aren’t at all upset about these comments!
Rare bad take by Josh
LSU fan here. I am glad that Kiffin was hired. I am patient in seeing the process play out. Losing that many players plus basically a new OL along with key positions on offense means it will take time to gel. I don't think a NC in year 1 is feasible. If 9-3 is the final record, I would be happy. It is a tough schedule to navigate with new coaching staff and players. If 9-3 is good enough for CFP, great. If miss it but go to a decent bowl, the future will be setup nicely.
He saw the cupboard and said we have a lot of development to do.
This quote was actually from his press conference last week. Yesterday, he made another comment about it taking time to get to an elite level when asked if he thought his team was "on schedule" for spring practice... He also followed up with "I didn't say YEARS, I just said it takes some time." Also, to clarify - only 2 players on this team have played in his offence, which just happens to be one of the fastest tempo, highest paced in the country. He hasn't shied away from the expectations from Day 1, regardless of how everyone is trying to paint it.
As expectations go, I'm not committing to any certain number of wins or losses... To me, what matters is how it looks on the field. Having attended games last year where the product on the field did NOT look like LSU football should look, THAT is what matters to me. Games can be won and lost by the bounce of a ball or a ref's bad call. But if the offense is constantly going 3 and out, barely scoring, and the defense is the only hope of winning the game (like last year), that will be unacceptable imo. There can't be any repeats of Texas A&M.
Great take on the situation my partner.
Hell ya! This guy understand college football and lsu fans expectations!
I live here in Baton Rouge as an Alabama fan. This is exactly how most of the fan base thinks. They want Nick Saban Results without Him. This is why they got Lane. This is as close as they can get. SMH.
If it happens at Indiana why not lsu?
That's how the LSU '26 roster shapes up. '27 will be the year LSU EXPLODES and dominates college football.
This will end with fireworks regardless. Complete feast or famine.
I should’ve waited til the end of the video lol my bad Josh. Point taken.
At around the 2:30 mark, I agree with your point until last year…. Curt Cignetti ruined that for future head coaches lol unfortunately now there is actually a push for pay-to-win coaching year to year
I think the comment the questionnaire is referring to came later. "Kiffin said it takes time, and before y'all get mad. I'm not talking years, but it takes time"
He was basically saying, give me a month and ask the question again
😂 Kiffin is in way over his head with this bunch
It took him almost six years to get Ole Miss legit... so how long will it take him with expectations??
I would revise Georgie's statement to be something along the lines of "...you can ask for patience OR you can ask for $13M a year AND $40M for your roster, but you don't get both at a place like LSU..."
I think he’ll go 8-4, miss Atlanta and the playoffs but say it was SOS or something
Why you talking bout the webels season on an LSU topic. CLK leads LSU to 10-2 and CFP berth.
8-4 would be an improvement.
W take Josh, anybody who disagrees just hates Lane Kiffin lmao
He is given no patience because he played Ole Miss like a fiddle, left an actual playoff team for this new squad, and sabotaged said playoff team while seeking to steal all their thunder and headlines.
He wanted to coach in the playoffs, Ole Miss AD wouldn’t let him 🤷♂️
He allowed his offensive staff to return to Oxvegas to coach CFP. That's AFTER the om ad BEGGED him. If he wanted to sabotage the runts season he would have said NO.
@NotFlightt then he should of took the lsu job after the playoffs were over
@FredPitre-o4b That is absolutely correct. You’ll never convince the runts he wasn’t “out to destroy them!” 😂
@darrylsevier6121 You ever catch their locked on dude? He never met an om player or recruit that wasn't an All American or a 5*. They all just the BEST there is. It was really bad till a couple of weeks ago. NEVER stopped talking about CK and LSU. He had MORE LSU fans watching/commenting than runt fans.
6:23 yes we would - you get paid based off performance at any job Josh - if you get paid the minimum they require AT LEAST the minimum from you get paid more they expect more wtf are you talking about.
When it comes to millions of dollars it’s a little different than what a normal person makes at their job
I think it’s naive to think LSU fans won’t be having a certain level of expectations that are relatively high
10-2
@FredPitre-o4b yeah I’d say anything less will get fans already disappointed
@zachstolpa6521 Fo sure
I think he gets patience. I mean if they put up embarrassing losses the headlines will pop up. I think outside of disaster, he gets 3 years to get into that top 8 team tier.
There's this feeling in the college world that LSU is "quick" to fire its head coaches. Depends on your definition of quick I guess.
In the modern era, we've had 5 years, fired; 5 years, resigned; 12 years, fired; 6 years, fired; 4 years fired. You go back to the 70s and we had Charlie Mac for 18 years. We want to hire a coach and leave him and we tried with miles but well ....
Even with Kiffen preaching patience, I don't think he's talking about more than 4 years, he's just trying to pull everyone back from lofty, unrealistic expectations for his first year. And I think that's fair.
Lane is correct. But so is the person asking the question. Expectations are very high, realistically or not. If there isn’t significant improvement over last year, he is going to hear all about it. Part of that is Lane’s fault, with his cocky attitude.
I give him three years before he's fired for going 8-4 every season.
That will be TWO years more than goldilocks gets at om. After runts go 7-5 goldberg will be shown the door.
Kiffen knew the expectations when he took the job. He better go at least 9-3. Playoffs preferable, but at least by 2027.
10-2 year ONE. WINS it all year TWO.
Most of us lsu fans aren’t this delusional.
I just want to be competitive against the best. And we’ll get there 💜🐯
Roger bannister effect
LSU fan here. We are excited, yes. But we are realistic too.
People need to stop speaking for LSU fans!
The adverb begging tends to lead to negative thoughts that aren't necessarily true. For example: Nick Saban begged his fans to.... Get the point? Every new coach tells his/her fan base to be patient.
Lane should check in with Coach cig.
He asked for patience between now and the beginning of the season. He hasn’t said anything about number of wins etc.
I don’t hear LSU fans complaining with what he said?
I really don't think it's about if LSU will be patent with kiffin but if Kiffin will be patient with LSU or just take the first 14 million $ job he's offered. The reputations seem to be weighing that direction
You still asshurt 😂
You cant ask for money then patience .. The nil will go dry if the wins aren't at expectation then Lane goes next.
Watching the BK regime squander talent and uninvent offensive scheme has fried the brains of most of the fanbase. Josh is right AND as an LSU fan, I totally empathize with the “surely THIS is enough to make a run.”
LSU fan here. Just have to say, our fanbase is unrealistic about timing of things very often. I think Kiffin is simply trying to temper expectations for the first season, and rightly so. The first season of a coach's tenure doesn't always speak to the future of that coach's tenure at a place. Year 1 was pretty rough with Saban, but he's the greatest to ever do it. In contrast, Brian Kelly had his best season with LSU in Year 1, and we all know how that turned out. I had no problem with what he said, nor do I think him tempering expectations is unwise.
With all the money they put into bringing in transfers he won't get patience. Roster building is not something that takes 3 years anymore.
With the amount of talent that LSU puts in the NFL, arguably places the highest grade NFL talent of any college, that should come with expectations. At least a 9-3 year. CFP seed would be a success, not even have to win a game in CFP. Les Miles won a nati and went 0-12 at Kansas a few seasons after. Coach O won a nati with 'the greatest team of all time' and was 9-25 as Ole Miss head coach. This shouldn't be that difficult of a job.
This may not be popular but I think you got to give him two years then go from there. Geaux Tigers
I guess many forget how it took saban a few years to get Bama going. He deserves at least 3 years to get this program to an elite level again!
Not with 40 million dollars of bought players. When Saban took over Bama that was a different time.
If lane doesn’t win 7 it’s gonna be loud there in year 3
Homeboy has the most expensive roster in America. patience will not be afforded him.
Not with a $40,000,000 roster-boosters put up and expect him to deliver year one with that kind of investment-so how quickly can he get chemistry with this roster? This isn’t the old days when’re you get 4-5 years; not with Cignetti made noise year one and got a ring year two … in Indiana, no less.
Considering all but a handful of all those portal adds have MULTIPLE years left. LSU is setup for an indi run. Very good year 1. Make CFP. EXPLODE year 2 and WIN the whole damn thing.
He was saying that because he was in day two of spring camp. He hasn't even seen his team in pads yet. So he was telling the reporters to chill out because he hasn't even gotten everybody on the same page yet. He hasn't taught the offense everything yet. The team should not look like a well-oiled machine on day two of spring camp. What Lane Kiffin said was perfectly reasonable.
As a tiger, this is not what I want to hear
After several stupid questions, Kiffin embarrassed the press by telling them to be patient, so they deflected the impatience accusation at the fans. Kiffin was not talking about his players, the program's progress, or the fans; he was speaking directly to the hyperventilating press!
He’s obviously talking about the fact that there’s a mountain of work to be done between now and the season.
This is ridiculous.
And, to be honest, the expectation should be to field a team that is as complete as possible since the last several years the team has been a disjointed mess.
If LSU goes 9-3 and is just outside the playoffs but they look like they know what the hell they’re doing and like there isn’t a massive liability in the coaches’ box, that should suffice for year one.
If LSU looks like crap and is getting blown out by the likes of Florida, it’s a problem.
10-2 = floor! Necessarily!! Brian Kelly barely showed up for work, barely recruited, coasted his first 3 years and had regular season wins:
*9;
*9;
*8.
It is entirely reasonable to expect Kiffin to win at least 10 with a $40M+ roster.
10-2 LSU vs 2026 schedule is a playoff team. Spot the ball!! 🐅💜💛
People are saying most Lsu fans aren't that way ,are most Lsu fans paying for this roster? No only rich boosters who demand instant results and have zero patience.
People acting like the team had a good season 1 under BK and then hasn’t been in a slow nosedive since then.
This is not exclusive to sports, if you pay more for a service you expect better service. I think that’s pretty universal. Fancy cars have to be better. Kiffin knew what he was getting into, but as you said none of that matters because it’s not like LSU can fire him anyway. Still we are way more lenient with sports than the real world. Just try doing a contract holdout working in a normal industry, see how that goes for you. The schools are overpaying but ultimately that’s their problem.
You’re such an LSU and Kiffin homer its actually unreal. Whatever pays the bills I guess
Boy oh boy this press conference is getting spread around and taken WAYYYY out of context lol
I think he found out that there are holes in his team on both sides of the ball and they could go under 500 this year.
HOLES plugged 10-2. Can you name some of them HOLES you spoke of??
@FredPitre-o4bI can't because I'm not at their practices and I don't keep up with LSU's injury list. As a head coach, you're with the team every day at practice, so he has to see some weaknesses in the team and what the position coaches are saying, too. Plus if you like what you see in spring practice, he should have been more confident in his team.
@Austen-t6o How bout this my partner. CLK was speaking directly to his offense. There are 40 players give or take on offensive side the ball. ALL of 2 of them have prior time in CLK offense. Sure there will be a learning curve and need time to get acclimated to it. That why they practice.
CLK has NO concerns with the defense. His biggest get of all offseason was NOT a player but retaining one of the BEST DCs in the country Blake Baker. His LSU defense was much MUCH better than record indicates. They will be IMPROVED this year.
LSU definitely need to be more patient. We are going full blown tribal over here wanting instant results or else. This patch work portal team isn't winning a championship this year.
Then why spend 40 million on a roster? I would demand a championship this season or what did I buy that expensive roster for.
If you pay a premium for a service, you expect premium results. If you go cheap, you dont care as much about the results. Me-Ma didn't know how to handle money, i see. Is a Pate State education even close to a juco, lol.
Even Lane understands that team/coach chemistry cannot be purchased…
Then why spend 40 million on a roster?
They won’t be patient. LSU expects to win now. That’s Lane’s problem.
Fans are always going to be ridiculous. They could be misunderstanding what is meant by the coach asking for a little patience.
Kalen DeBeor went 25-3 two years at Washington before Curt Cignetti made it to Indiana. Lane will have no patience.
@Francisk25 his contract says otherwise. Your emotions won't dictate a damn thing 😂
@nikivory6891Lane is a Genius apparently, so He needs to have a Run Game, and Weapons for Sam Leavitt immediately. He should win 10 Games with Blake Baker’s defense at worst.
Brian Kelly got under pressure because he didn’t win 10 games.
@Francisk25 I'm not arguing with your feelings kid
@nikivory6891But you did.
You need to define patience! They want SEC titles and natties so Lane needs to get one in say 3 years or the patience will be long gone. LSU did not sign up for the 8 year plan😅
Good luck, he may quite within 5 years!
It’s not even the Salary though, he asking for patience from the public, which is not the problem. When your school is spending over 40 million on your roster it’s the school you’re gonna have issues with if you don’t deliver.
LSU spent 95 million to hire Brian Kelly just to eventually fire him. Then turned around and spent 91 million to hire Lane Kiffin, lol. Lane has three to four years to get it right starting this season coming up. If Lane doesn’t work out then LSU will have one of the biggest financial blunders in sports.
So Georgie thinks LSU will fire him in 2-3 years if no natty? They'll still be paying BK's buyout, and now got a $10m buyout for basketball.
The statement isn't wrong but going from 7 wins to 14 or 15 wins isn't easy for anyone.
As much money that was spent on their roster it really is nc or bust. Any coach that gets that money for a roster multiple years would win so yes there is no patience
Wow, you’re such a lsu homer. Open your eyes Josh pate. You can’t leave a program because you say you can’t win like a natty there and then go to the next program and say hey relax, we gotta be patient to win. No no no, you came to win, don’t be scared or the pressure now that comes with the bigger brighter program
To me, it doesn’t matter if LSU wins 6 games or wins the National Championship. Kiffin deserves the outcome.
Kinda acting like Brian Kelly burned LSU to the ground and so Kiffin deserves time to rebuild it. The place had a Heisman, won the SEC West, and beat Saban. They weren’t 7-6 every year for the past 20 years. Does he deserve time? Yes. Will he get it? Hell no.
He was saying that because he was in day two of spring camp. He hasn't even seen his team in pads yet. So he was telling the reporters to chill out because he hasn't even gotten everybody on the same page yet. He hasn't taught the offense everything yet. The team should not look like a well-oiled machine on day two of spring camp. What Lane Kiffin said was perfectly reasonable.
Yes, he’ll get a period of time. That’s just common sense. We LSU fans aren’t stupid. We are excited, but we aren’t unrealistic.
(Btw-Brian Kelly did screw up the program-he had money, talent, etc..but everyone can see what that program degenerated too by the Texas A&M game in Tiger Stadium!! Talk about a completely demoralized program and fanbase.)
Except most of that was year one and the team only regressed since then.
CLK will be at LSU LONGER than he was in Oxvegas.
The expectations of a 150k employee vs a 45k are vastly different. College coaches are no different, to sit here and argue that it is not a factor is ridiculous. We get it Josh, you’re super enlightened and nuanced, however, 99% of the college football fanbase you pander to is not.
I think Georgie meant everyone praising LSU for being a top 5 program and LSU spending 40 MILLION DOLLARS on a roster and the idea of LSU not winning a Natty and ppl like Josh being ok with that outcome is a bit backwards and backtracking of their comments made when he left Ole Miss. All we want is to acknowledge that LSU expects greater than what it really is. The coach with the highest winning percentage career record couldn’t get LSU a natty and Lane Kiffin will fall short as well.
Just the next program to be left burning in Lanes rear view mirror. Not one place he has been to would welcome him back for and afyernoon brunch let alone anywhere near their school.
Week 3
Deserve's got nothin' to do with it. The fans are fickle. Lose one game and they'll be calling for his head.
Nah this is a public relations error. Patience is the wrong word. It makes it feel like Lane Kiffin is already starting his bs.
You get all the pressure and expectations of coaching at a major program with big boosters and resources. People know you might not be a finalist year one, but you don't want to come out in spring practice like this.
Take notes from Sumrall at Florida.
I know Josh loves him some LSU! But Brian Kelly (who Josh did luv but is now stepping back from) let the Tigah out of the bag 😂 You don't get patience when you get 13 million and a 40 million dollar roster! Especially at a place like LSU! They ain't paying Lane for pithy social media
posts 😂
I’m a fan but this is an incredibly dumb take!
The LSU baseball team has won 2 of the last 3 national championships. They were said to have a good recruiting class and a good portal class this year, but it looks doubtful they will be a contender this year. So, by this person's logic, Jay Johnson would be a failure, and that is just dumb. Lane can go 8-4 but win a title in the next couple of years, and no one would say what they are saying now.
He would be fine if he didnt run his mouth all the time, thats why nobody spares him. He has something to say about everything and everyone else and what they are doing constantly
You ride LSU like no one I’ve ever seen and at least you admitted it in your playoff mistakes video, but I just don’t understand why
when you go on an on about how it's "just different" at LSU because of the financial resources and the brand, and then you construct the most expensive college football roster ever as you bask in people stroking your ego for being a football genius (which he is), you don't get the luxury of patience. Again, ESPECIALLY when you wont stfu about how it's "just different". don't walk it back now
😂😂😂😂😂😂 SOOOO MADDDDDD WE STOLE YOUR COACH. STTDB.
He was saying that because he was in day two of spring camp. He hasn't even seen his team in pads yet. So he was telling the reporters to chill out because he hasn't even gotten everybody on the same page yet. He hasn't taught the offense everything yet. The team should not look like a well-oiled machine on day two of spring camp. What Lane Kiffin said was perfectly reasonable.
😂 yeah ok
Who hurt you ?
Pretty sure that was day one of SPRING. He still has to teach the players how he wants his offense to function. That’s all he was saying. But because your feelings are hurt you are being irrational like a child.
Lane Kiffin is not right. He left a program because the opportunity to succeed was so much better, right? In his own words he didn’t even look at the contract, right? He can’t back down on what he sold to LSU for $13mil and the ridiculous amount he spent on his 26 roster vs 25 roster. He is expected to come hot out of the gates and LSU deserves it for their level of commitment
Ok how about patience or a 40 million dollar roster? They are going to get pissed about going 8-4 this year with that lmao
Good thing they won’t be going 8-4.😂
Didn't realize the runt webels spent as much money as LSU on their roster. LSU starts SEC 1-0. They 7-1 at the bye and finish 10-2.
Wtf are u saying Josh in the world of sports how does a guy making 13 million not have higher expectations than someone making say 5 million
Ypou don't drop the kind of money that LSU did, and then expect to wait. It is win now or be fired. Period. Kiffin already making excuses, and he has none that are legit. And no, you are not correct Josh. You keep harping about the $13 million salary, which isn't even the issue. Its the $40-$50 million spent on the roster.
Terrible take. Since NIL we've seen other programs have quick turnarounds or flash seasons (FSU, Miami) based off the portal.
I hope LSU never wins again with Lane.
This has to be April Fools rage bait. If I’m paying a chef $50 to make me a steak and another chef $500 to make a steak that $500 steak better be a slice of heaven what are we talking about Josh 😂
Casual!
Good thing we are going to win this yeat
LSU bias at its finest
Look at these clowns in the comments running interference for LANE KIFFIN of all people. FOH simping for him.
Love you Josh but this could be you’re worst take to date.
You must be starving for clicks, lane did not beg lsu fans for patience. Ppl please giv watch the presser he did tues. And you would see he wasn't "begging" for patience
“It’s just different” if you are making that your catch phrase, getting paid 13 million dollars annually despite having not a single natty, sec champ, or playoff wins, and are spending roughly the 30 million dollars a year in NIL on your team, you better win and fast
YALL OLE MISS FANS SO MAD 😂 STTDB. Yall gonna suck so bad. Gonna be amazing .
Most insecure fan base in the history of college football
This is such a misleading exaggerated headline.
The downfall of LSU athletics is going to epic and hilarious..