Lane Kiffin Feature Writer Chris Smith To Be On Tiger Rag Radio Tuesday Night

By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor

Just about everything he touches goes viral.

LSU football coach Lane Kiffin has been trending for most of Monday after a feature on him in Vanity Fair magazine by best selling author Chris Smith went viral.

It’s Just Different when a cool, non-sports magazine like Vanity Fair profiles a football coach. But then, Lane Kiffin is just different:https://t.co/7C3CoslJCj

— Glenn Guilbeau (@SportBeatTweet) May 11, 2026

Smith, who wrote the best selling book “Till The End” about former New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia, will be on Tiger Rag Radio live Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. statewide to discuss his Kiffin feature.

Smith interviewed Kiffin in his office at LSU.

“@Lane_Kiffin is a hot mess. But he’s not the problem. It’s what’s going on in college sports.” @VanityFair @ChrisMurphyCT @finebaum @LSUfootball @OleMissFB https://t.co/rx8vpj1jYo

— chris smith (@chrissmithnymag) May 11, 2026

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Behind the scenes with @VanityFair and @Lane_Kiffin pic.twitter.com/IpXuNhspbx

— LSU Football (@LSUfootball) May 1, 2026

Ole Miss fans are still as sore about Kiffin leaving their school as head coach after last season after six years as LSU fans were when Nick Saban became Alabama’s coach in 2007 – two years removed from leaving LSU after five seasons for the Miami Dolphins job.

Ole Miss Should Treasure Historic Season And Forget About Who Gets The Credit … Which Is Mostly Lane Kiffin | Glenn Guilbeau

Kiffin led Ole Miss to its greatest season in history in 2025, while Saban won LSU’s first national championship in football in the 2003 season since 1958. He left after the 2004 season.

But Ole Miss fans and other Mississippians are particularly upset about a comment about their state’s racist past.

“When he was coaching there, Kiffin says, top recruits would tell him, ‘Hey, coach, we really like you. But my grandparents aren’t letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi,’” Smith writes.

Kiffin is then quoted. “That doesn’t come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana,” he says. “Parents were sitting here this weekend saying the campus diversity feels so great. ‘It feels like there’s no segregation. And we want that for our kid because that’s the real world.’”

Kiffin added later to Smith, “I just hope (the above comment) comes across respectful to Ole Miss. There are some things that I’m saying that are factual. They’re not shots.”