Name: Lane Kiffin | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #575
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Lane Kiffin | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #575

Today's guest is the head coach at Ole Miss, down in Oxford, Mississippi, which
is where we are taping today.
He's helped take that program to new heights in the past five years.
He's got his own group of fans called the Laniacs, and it was great talking to
him about his mentality on life, coaching, and leadership.
Today's guest is the one, the only, Lane Kiffin.
I know me, and I will find a song I've been singing.
Yeah, bro, so you invited, did you invite me to Pilates, or did you invite me
to yoga, which one?
Yoga, very big difference.
Yeah, my daughter's actually a Pilates teacher, but yoga's like better, like
the hot yoga part of it.
The intensity, like make it so miserable.
You know, that's what I do.
I control the heat in the back.
You do?
Yeah.
At the yoga studio?
Yeah.
Oh, that's great, man.
Yeah, does it remind you almost of game day out there on the field?
Like, is it, because it gets pretty, I mean, you're in the SEC, so it's really,
this is a really humid area.
Yeah, so I make it that way, too, like that we're playing, like, in the swamp,
or in Baton Rouge, like, in our early September games.
So it's, like, really hot, so you gotta, like, fight through it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Bat and ratchet, dude.
That's what I call it.
Yeah, I was trying to get you to go this morning, so then, like, you would have
gone through the misery and the experience, and then we'd, like, discuss it on
air, so you'd be like, man.
I did get my yoga in this morning, though.
Yeah, a little slower, a little different.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, I got it in at room temp.
This isn't, like, traditional yoga, like, flow, which that's good.
Uh-huh.
And that's actually where I started with it.
Then I was, like, I gotta go to another level.
Like, make this, put a heater in there, like, make it as hot, intense, and then,
like, put cardio in there.
And I just like bringing new people, too, and then they struggle, so it makes
me feel good about myself.
Oh, I see.
Yeah, yeah, that's part of it.
Yeah, so, oh, yeah, that was me just a couple hours ago, getting it done with
my Cat Williams statue right there.
I didn't know what that was, like, Nutcracker or something.
Oh, yeah, that's a statue of Cat Williams that they have.
But, yeah, so is that a big part of your, like, is yoga, like, a regular part
of your day, usually, or your week?
Yeah, every day, every morning.
It, like, starts my day that way, and so there's no phone for an hour, you know,
and you gotta, like, you gotta get uncomfortable.
Yeah.
You gotta sit in it, so I figured, if I can start my day, usually at, like, 6 o'clock
in the morning that way, and be so uncomfortable, that's the hardest part of my
day.
The rest of it, man, I can deal with the rest.
Yeah.
And so that, you know, you just, you get in those poses, too, in those
positions, you're just like, man, this is, I wanna get out of this discomfort.
Right.
So I gotta stay in the discomfort.
And over time, just, I'm able to stay in it longer and longer and more intense
with the heat.
And I feel like the rest of the day, man, I'm just kinda, like, chill for the
rest of the day.
And what, so the heat's been ramped up, what's the next thing you think you
would add in to, um, to Lane Kiffin, like, the Lane Kiffin yoga experience,
which almost seems like people should wear pads to be at it, it seems like.
Yeah, well, we have playlists, so we got good music, good energetic music, uh,
we put some cardio in there now.
And so we challenge the teachers, like, come up with the hardest things
possible.
So they just, like, make this list of stuff, like, you know, back when you were,
like, young and you were, like, training in high school.
And they just put up all the, all the different, like, 3x10, 3x15, like, all
these, and keep going.
And then, like, some of the classes, like, are public.
So we got students in there, we got other people in there, so, and then we,
like, I feel like, civilians, I call them.
Yeah, I'm trying, I'm trying to take Oxford to another level, so I'm, like, I
want for generations it to be tough.
Yeah.
And so sometimes they're, like, well, open the door, you know, I'm, like, don't
open the door, man.
We, like, keep them in the heat.
Yeah, hold the line.
Yeah, so then at the end, like, I'm, like, guess what, we need overtime.
Like, last week, I'm, like, it's March Madness, we need an overtime.
And everybody's, like, no, no overtime.
No overtime coach, and I'm, like, kick the field goal, coach, we got to get out
of here.
Yeah, we're making these kids tougher.
Dang, I can't believe, the fact that somebody's trying to start generational
yoga is, that's next level, man.
I guess that's the Lane Kiffin level, you know?
And I like the fact, yeah, you hit me up on social media, I thought that was
cool, just to, like, kind of welcome me into the area today, so I thought that
was pretty cool.
You kind of have, like, a notorious, you're kind of notorious on Twitter for,
like, being, like, a unique, like, kind of an outspoken coach.
Would you say that's a fair term?
Yeah, I would say very different.
Yeah.
I looked at social media when I started, it was for recruiting, because we
weren't able to text, like, it was a dumb NCAA rule, like most of them.
And-
You couldn't text them, could you mail?
Yeah, you could DM them, you could, on Twitter, you could message them.
You can message them.
On Twitter, but you couldn't text them, personally?
Yes, made no sense.
So that's why it was started, and then I just kind of started being a normal
person.
I was like, you know, I can't be a normal person as a coach in a lot of my life,
so I was like, on social media, I'll just be normal.
And then buddies start sending me stuff, I just retweet it.
Or other coaches, like in the SEC, like Kirby Smart.
He all the time, because he's politically correct.
So he's, like, got stuff he wants to put out there, but he's like, they just
send it to me, because they know I will.
Oh, nice.
So I just kind of embraced it and ran with it.
Yeah, I think it's, I think it separates you from some of the other guys out
there, that's for sure.
I think, yeah, it makes you seem a little bit more kind of crazy and personable
at the same time, I think.
The reason why I kept going with it was because I would go into home visits,
and these parents would say,
or they'd come into my office, like, when they're doing a campus tour, and they
would say to me, like,
Coach, we feel like we already know you, we love your social media, I love your
Twitter, I love your Instagram,
like, we feel like we already know you.
And I'm like, well, shoot, how much is that worth, that they're already coming
to visit us,
wanting their kid to go here, saying, we already know you because of it.
So then I just kept going with it.
Yeah, I mean, look, you're the only, you're the only college coach that we've
wanted to meet up with.
So this has kind of worked out.
Yeah, I think it probably does have an effect, you know.
I've made it, I feel like I've made it then.
Well, no.
College coach that Theo Vaughn wants to do a show with.
You don't lose your job by the time this is over, then.
That's the goal.
That's the goal, yeah.
To keep you.
55 more minutes.
Yeah, 55 more minutes, that's the goal.
Is there a difference between the kind of the Twitter lane and I'm the one
saying, putting you in a third person.
I know you're not doing that.
But is there a difference between the kind of the Twitter personality and the
personality of the actual personality?
Like, what's kind of like offline lane?
I would say the Twitter is probably closer to it.
You know, people that are around me all the time and stuff say like, what was
out there early on, especially about me or what people think really isn't what
he is.
And you probably hear that a lot, but yeah, so I feel like Twitter is more
actually how I am just kind of, okay, that's funny.
I'll just like say that or send that out, you know, like, and so I'm not an old
school coach in many regards at all, just because I think you should always
evolve.
You should always not do things because it was in a book of how to do it before
and always kind of test things, you know, like around here we say, you know,
instead of just thinking outside the box, we create a new box.
We challenge everything, different ways of thinking things.
So, and social media is part of that because that's not, or how I do a press
conference or even doing this.
There'll probably be some coaches that even if they, if you did call them up
for this, they wouldn't do it because they'd say, okay, well, that's not really
the message I want to put out, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah, Kim Mulkey won't text me back.
I mean, that should be like a no-brainer.
That's what I'm thinking, an in-state.
I mean, you got to have amazing, like, Louisiana following positive numbers.
I don't know how they track them, but it's got to be amazing.
I mean, you're one of them.
Yeah.
I'm not at the Flavie Johnson levels yet.
I'll get there though, I think.
So why, why do you think like, because yeah, you do have a unique personality,
right?
And you, at least your personality is able to be seen these days.
And I think that that's something that just happens more over time with social
media and more just, we have more video of people in general now, you know?
So there's just like so many more little moments that get captured.
So you get to know somebody's personality.
And that's how I think a lot of fans, they, I think they gravitate a lot more
towards athletes, coaches, anybody really in the world because they get to know
their personality, right?
We were talking before about social media and how that kind of like, like why
people kind of gravitate towards certain people on social media.
And I think some of that's, that's just kind of the answer.
It's just, there's more out there.
And if people are willing to show some of their personality and not kind of
follow like this playbook of exactly how things are supposed to be, but remain
within HR, HR has a box.
You have to stay in pretty much.
Yeah.
But I think, I don't know if I'm, do I make any sense?
As a head coach, you got a lot of people that you've got to please.
And that's challenging in these type of settings, these things, because you
want to talk to recruits in that age group, your current players, your fans,
but then you also have administration.
You've got old donors that have been around a long time, seen things done a
certain way for a long time.
So there's a lot of challenges in that.
And you can't, you can't please everybody, which, you know, so I've kind of,
right or wrong, I've always said, hey,
my job is to wherever I'm working at, meaning my job is to Ole Miss and not to
potential future presidents or ADs at other places or other fan bases.
And so whether I was at Tennessee or USC or here, wherever I was, it was like,
okay, a lot of what I say, other fans don't like.
Maybe even other athletic directors are like, well, I don't like that he said
that.
But our own fans, our own administration really like it because it's usually me
backing Ole Miss and saying what I think about the program, what it should be.
And maybe sometimes taking shots at other programs or something like that.
Yeah.
Factual information.
Blatantly.
know and putting it out there and so that that upsets some people and upsets um
a lot of other
fan bases well that's not my job to worry about them yeah yeah you have one fan
base yeah they're
not they didn't hire me they're not paying the bills so um i've always looked
at and i think a
lot of coaches don't do that and i'm not saying i'm right a lot of coaches say
hey i'm gonna say
things so that future employers potential that they see it so then they're
gonna want to hire me
um and i've just never thought that way do you um you already had two
experiences like
coaching in the sec right at um alabama and at tennessee yep um like how's it
been different
here at old miss because i mean you know some people call it the yale of mississipp