Name: Lane Kiffin on SEC Rivalries, Getting Booed in His Return to Tennessee, and More
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Lane Kiffin on SEC Rivalries, Getting Booed in His Return to Tennessee, and More' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-04-16. Transcript available.

you'd 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 mississippi kind of well i think you know i was as you mentioned
head coach of tennessee
then the office coordinator at alabama so spent some time there um and those
programs really over
a long period of time um had won a lot of games alabama unbelievable
championship runs coach
saving probably a you know a decade there that's never going to be done ever
again yeah too many
wins i think for a school not good for them at a certain point but we're not
not good for competitive
environment throughout the conference when he was taking all the players and
winning all the games
no um and old miss had been down right you know um somebody said a stat the
other day you know in the
last four years so the seniors in college here it's been a cool experience for
them they saw a
national championship in baseball they just saw both basketball teams go to the
sweet 16 and in four
years of football here we've had three top 12 finishes well they only had one
in the previous 51 years
wow so there's been four in 55 years they've seen three of the four so the
difference obviously in the
programs was different but i really liked that it was like a challenge because
you can come in at the top
of a place that's kind of always one and then you win it's like okay versus wow
let's like change what's
happened let's like create a new winning culture a new way of thinking um in
how the locker room and
the whole university thinks about football and the program and so we've raised
the expectations to
where we won 10 games and people are upset around here you know right and so
yeah that's a different
energy you guys were 13 points away from 13 more points and you guys are undefeated
last year 13 total
well you need three to win so 16 more points last year and you guys would have
been undefeated
yeah pretty crazy yeah we played 13 games 10 of them we won by double digits
and then the three losses
were all one score games um right at the end of the game what what's what's
kind of different between
coaching like in the pack 10 or i think it's the pack 12 or something now
everybody keeps kind of like
changing their names but i don't think it exists anymore it's like pack two now
yeah it was like
it was eight at one point and it was 10 and it was 12 and some of those teams
should not have been in
there and now there's like two everybody else left what was it like what do you
notice different
between coaching and like the pack like a different conference as opposed to
the sec like yeah you
coached at fau you coached at um you coached in the pack 10 to 12 eight you
know what's the difference
you think yeah um you know there's a saying like in the sec day coin like it
just means more
and it really does like the passion in the towns um for the football programs
um the attention on it
and really the play over time has been dominant the sec's had more draft picks
more championships all
all those things it's just different it's a way of life down here oh yeah and
people that can't even
read and they can but they're just yelling go dogs i feel if somebody come out
of a coma and be like go
dogs or something you know yeah or somebody like come out of a coma and be like
and then just pass
away like people's last words baby's first words there's like 30 videos of baby's
first words being
like sec chance or whatever it's a lot i was the head coach at usc you spend
time out in l.a so it's
just a different world out there and i remember i was walking through campus
and i was like man i bet like
50 70 of these students have no idea who i am i'm the head coach of the
football team
they got no idea who i am they just they're going to school at usc you know
getting their education
yeah um and like here did that like like 100 know who you are you know like the
the little kids like
the you know you go to like walk downtown and like a four-year-old's like coach
kiffin like they know
who you are so it's like they'll complain about your for people that haven't
been down here
maybe that makes sense to them like to understand that you know like you don't
go anywhere without
any everybody knowing who you are but also like that too you know right yeah
yeah they're like
eight-year-old kid maybe not four they just say go to hell kiffin but eight-year-old
well we've been
winning so don't say that but that'll happen as soon as we lose a couple yeah
but no they do they'll be like
coach man like what about throwing that tight end on the in route i'm like you're
like eight like how
do you how do you know that like well it's 11 am what are you doing at this
cafe you should be in
school you should easily obviously you're truant but yeah it's definitely it's
a lot more intense
in the south it's just yeah it's yeah they're like like coach you're three for
14 on third downs
i'm like i don't even know that and they do but it's just it just means more
the passion for it
and it's also why it's so awesome too it's why the stadiums are the way that
they are
the electricity before games as people walk into the stadiums like it's just
different i love that
yeah because you guys have a walk i mean i think a couple of teams do a walk
now
do people ever try and tickle you or whatever when you walk by her that's crazy
that's something
nobody well i like moved i this happened at tennessee and then here
and maybe this isn't like the best thing but i like moved it a little wider
like they didn't have
like barricades on the walk and they're like well it's great man the fans are
like you interact with
them like well this walk is like a half mile like you're walking through like
40 000 people yeah you
know and like you gotta wear a suit and everything and then like they're like
grabbing you and everything
and so yeah i moved the barricades a little adults yeah like a little wider
plus i mean we are in the
deep south so there's a lot of great things and but i mean there's just some
different things too now
you know they're like grabbing you and i got chew spit on her hand and stuff i've
never hugged a man
people just yelling stuff like yeah there's a lot it's like whoa can we like
move these just back a
little bit maybe like maybe i can just do the wave yeah you know hey guys good
to see you put the defensive
tackles along the outside the sec has historic venues right and a lot of
historic a lot of like
one thing that's interesting about the sec is you'll have people that didn't go
to college
but they will show up at the games as if it's their school and that doesn't
happen like in as many other
places it just does not happen yeah you have people who can't read people who
can't see but they'll
they'll show up and watch a game somehow um and you don't see that in other
conferences so that totally
happens and i i remember so my first taste of the south was going to tennessee
as the head coach
and i'm coming from i was the head coach of the oakland raiders and i've been
at usc before this
i'm like coming from california to like tennessee and i remember i'm like there's
a lot of people
they have a spring game there's like 70 000 people here at the spring game like
50 000 there two hours
before and they're like yeah at the at the big games like the thing will sell
out then there'll be
another 20 000 outside and i'm like i went to school and like no no don't get
it no and then
when i went to alabama the same thing they're like no half these people didn't
go to school here they
just they lived in the state at one point so they it's their team it's not
because they went to school
there and like their passion is unbelievable and i'm like wait you didn't even
go to school over here
no no no i didn't go to school at all but my daddy knew somebody that did yeah
i'm like wait your dad
went no he didn't either so no one in your family ever went no sir to alabama
no sir but you like your
whole week your whole year is affected whether they win or lose like just angry
the rest of the year
whether they win or lose that like alabama tennessee game yes that's it yes sir
but it doesn't impact you
like your job do you work for it but no i don't work sir but i cheer for the
tide i mean they got
that one guy that uh roll tide willie now and he's uh he was in the military
with my dad's buddy but um
what's one of the most aggravating traditions that you think and what's one of
the best traditions you
think in college football if you're even up on them i know there's a lot of
them out there
well this is like a big tradition like as far as everywhere not specific places
like i i love the
band thing you know before like it's just really cool when they have the band
out there and they
spell things speaking of the tennessee the opening of the t and then run out
like that was really cool
to like see you're like right there and then like the band just opens up the t
and you run out like
that's that's a really cool tradition um and is there one that's kind of aggravating
you see
at a place somewhere it could be sec or anywhere um the fan storming thing is a
little bit tough
you know like they don't do it in the nfl they found a way like i get it it's
pretty cool um
but then it can be aggravating because like they're storming and like
then you're worried about like i'm hitting you what's going on what are they
going to do it's like very
you know i'm very invasive at that point but um i think like if they could just
let everybody out
and then let the fans on so they still get to tear the goal post down because
that's the school and
stuff yeah yeah i was at that old at the um alabama vanderbelle game and that
was pretty sick and
some guy on the sidelines squeezed me so hard bruised one of my ribs really bad
or dislocated it right
so i was like doing like that or whatever and then every other player kept
hugging me so yeah it's
just at just one after the nut just the biggest guys you ever even seen just
hugging you yeah they're
all excited yeah and it was just oh dude it was that was a really tough day
that was a tough year
actually that took about eight weeks to get better from yeah but you were at a
historic like moment it
was so cool that will probably never happen ever again it's a once in a
lifetime well diego
javier got that sixth year that eighth year i think he got yeah you never know
did that uh were you
surprised when he got that did it affect any of the way that were your players
able to apply for
anything like that uh we tried we didn't win it um jack start actually tried to
get another year um
or at least see if the option was there and um you know they denied it but hey
there we are we iced
that dude up clark lee good dude i like i love clark yeah he is a good guy they
got a fun group over
there and that's kind of underdog energy over there too you know big time is
there an sec team that you
also cheer for on the low kind of them i do yeah vanderbilt because i think
they have like so much
stacked against them you know like they got higher academic qualifications to
get guys in so they can't
just get all the players everybody else can you know like um harder you know
because the stadiums
usually half full and stuff so um i i root for them especially clark because
that's a hard job
yeah and so that's that's pretty cool for them to win like they did this year
yeah it's exciting over
there yeah they carry the goal post and then they try to valet park the goal
post i heard they got
tired of it or whatever i didn't know that and they tried to valet him at a
restaurant i'm like you
can't who are you gonna give it to those three guys up front or whatever like
that's crazy yeah but
that might be the only like sec town that has valet that's a good that's it
like when you say that that
doesn't feel they know valet in most these talent valet that's a great point
yeah yeah they tried to
valet i'm at a um i think at uh at a mcormick and schmicks or something over
there so definitely
kind of interesting what is what what's your favorite place to play do you
think in the sec
outside of vault hemingway well i don't know about favorite because favorite
would be like
anarcho right it's anarcho for you guys yeah you know like favorite might be
somewhere really easy
like no the the most intense places yeah or just which one of you get out there
and you're like man
this is freaking majestic how about that let's use that word this is why you
have like such a different
audience of like so many different areas of because like you use big words too
oh you know like yeah
you're educated majestic muha majestic yeah yeah what's a big neiland stadium
in tennessee is like
amazing like it's just like when we would bring recruits there it is majestic
like there you go
like and then at night and then there's the river and the boats and then the
intensity in there so
i was the head coach here old miss we went to play at tennessee and it was like
on from warm-ups like
like everyone was there over 100 000 people and there was like this hatred
towards me like i felt like the gladiator to movie you know like i was there
getting ready for like a
thumbs down you know like let's kill them yeah and then it like and it's
probably 12 000 people are
carrying weapons in there at that time they had a real conversation with me
during the week about
bulletproof vests like but again like there's no way guys come on man it's
football and they're like
they had like three cops with me and everything like like it's deer season sir
they didn't really
do that maybe like a golf ball you know they're gonna throw at me or a bottle
or something
yeah so they're walking in and i was like this is awesome yeah like now i could
feel
oh yeah they were like chanting like you know like fuck lane jeff and like that
was actually like felt
kind of like intense and cool like 100 000 people chanting that oh yeah if a
bunch of people hate
yet once it's easier to go it's easier to digest and then they're like the
student section was like
hey you know last night we were with your wife and i was like man that's pretty
funny like to come up
with stuff you know like so it was intense and it was like and it just kept
building so maybe like
everybody didn't hate me at the beginning but then you know it's like a crowd
like storm they feel it
and then the hatred just kept building and then it was like really close game
at then and then we won
you guys won yeah and then they got pissed and they like threw things at me
like golf ball oh and like
anything they could get like mustard school books which we need in tennessee
first of all they didn't they
didn't have school books okay no mustard bottles oh like how do you even have a
mustard bottle like
you just brought that to the game like hey hey we're gonna like go to the game
and sneak the mustard
bottle oh you're in the damn condiment belt over there isn't mustard free like
like are you saving
money oh you should see where they keep their relish at brother and the golf
like and i was like they
throw this golf ball that became famous that like they throw at me and i'm like
afterwards i'm like okay
muster like okay what am i sneaking in to the game a golf ball like what do you
have a golf ball for
like i'm carrying a golf balls because i don't think they're thinking i'm gonna
throw it like
i'm gonna be pissed off in the fourth quarter and throw it right they just had
it on them yeah but
then i look close there's a range ball so i feel like you know what it was it's
like the cheap guy
that like steals the range ball so like okay this way i don't like have these
to hit like you know
instead of like having to buy a golf ball so i'm gonna steal the range ball
like for
next time i go and play around so it was just in his pocket that was my guess i
i think that's
probably accurate oh there you are right there with it oh that's pretty cool
yeah um did you keep that
yeah you still have it i did hell yeah dude that's cool how scary is it how
quick do you want to get
off the field when you beat a team in their stadium um is there a weird energy
there for a little like
is it kind of that one was yeah yeah that one definitely was um most of the
time it's not really
sometimes i kind of like it you know like kind of walk off a little slow you
know just so like you
feel the like that wind that she just like ruined a hundred thousand people's
like especially in the
sec like week not just day oh yeah their traffic home yeah that's a lot and
especially a woman who
was going to give birth that week because her husband would be in a good mood
and now they got
off she's got to hold it another week that's the toughest part okay we cannot
have we lost this week
yeah we ain't having a baby under these circumstances keep it in there yeah
yeah hold the line we got
we got bamma next week we win that you can have a saturday night yeah we'll get
that thing out

Lane Kiffin on SEC Rivalries, Getting Booed in His Return to Tennessee, and More

you'd 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 mississippi kind of well i think you know i was as you mentioned
head coach of tennessee
then the office coordinator at alabama so spent some time there um and those
programs really over
a long period of time um had won a lot of games alabama unbelievable
championship runs coach
saving probably a you know a decade there that's never going to be done ever
again yeah too many
wins i think for a school not good for them at a certain point but we're not
not good for competitive
environment throughout the conference when he was taking all the players and
winning all the games
no um and old miss had been down right you know um somebody said a stat the
other day you know in the
last four years so the seniors in college here it's been a cool experience for
them they saw a
national championship in baseball they just saw both basketball teams go to the
sweet 16 and in four
years of football here we've had three top 12 finishes well they only had one
in the previous 51 years
wow so there's been four in 55 years they've seen three of the four so the
difference obviously in the
programs was different but i really liked that it was like a challenge because
you can come in at the top
of a place that's kind of always one and then you win it's like okay versus wow
let's like change what's
happened let's like create a new winning culture a new way of thinking um in
how the locker room and
the whole university thinks about football and the program and so we've raised
the expectations to
where we won 10 games and people are upset around here you know right and so
yeah that's a different
energy you guys were 13 points away from 13 more points and you guys are undefeated
last year 13 total
well you need three to win so 16 more points last year and you guys would have
been undefeated
yeah pretty crazy yeah we played 13 games 10 of them we won by double digits
and then the three losses
were all one score games um right at the end of the game what what's what's
kind of different between
coaching like in the pack 10 or i think it's the pack 12 or something now
everybody keeps kind of like
changing their names but i don't think it exists anymore it's like pack two now
yeah it was like
it was eight at one point and it was 10 and it was 12 and some of those teams
should not have been in
there and now there's like two everybody else left what was it like what do you
notice different
between coaching and like the pack like a different conference as opposed to
the sec like yeah you
coached at fau you coached at um you coached in the pack 10 to 12 eight you
know what's the difference
you think yeah um you know there's a saying like in the sec day coin like it
just means more
and it really does like the passion in the towns um for the football programs
um the attention on it
and really the play over time has been dominant the sec's had more draft picks
more championships all
all those things it's just different it's a way of life down here oh yeah and
people that can't even
read and they can but they're just yelling go dogs i feel if somebody come out
of a coma and be like go
dogs or something you know yeah or somebody like come out of a coma and be like
and then just pass
away like people's last words baby's first words there's like 30 videos of baby's
first words being
like sec chance or whatever it's a lot i was the head coach at usc you spend
time out in l.a so it's
just a different world out there and i remember i was walking through campus
and i was like man i bet like
50 70 of these students have no idea who i am i'm the head coach of the
football team
they got no idea who i am they just they're going to school at usc you know
getting their education
yeah um and like here did that like like 100 know who you are you know like the
the little kids like
the you know you go to like walk downtown and like a four-year-old's like coach
kiffin like they know
who you are so it's like they'll complain about your for people that haven't
been down here
maybe that makes sense to them like to understand that you know like you don't
go anywhere without
any everybody knowing who you are but also like that too you know right yeah
yeah they're like
eight-year-old kid maybe not four they just say go to hell kiffin but eight-year-old
well we've been
winning so don't say that but that'll happen as soon as we lose a couple yeah
but no they do they'll be like
coach man like what about throwing that tight end on the in route i'm like you're
like eight like how
do you how do you know that like well it's 11 am what are you doing at this
cafe you should be in
school you should easily obviously you're truant but yeah it's definitely it's
a lot more intense
in the south it's just yeah it's yeah they're like like coach you're three for
14 on third downs
i'm like i don't even know that and they do but it's just it just means more
the passion for it
and it's also why it's so awesome too it's why the stadiums are the way that
they are
the electricity before games as people walk into the stadiums like it's just
different i love that
yeah because you guys have a walk i mean i think a couple of teams do a walk
now
do people ever try and tickle you or whatever when you walk by her that's crazy
that's something
nobody well i like moved i this happened at tennessee and then here
and maybe this isn't like the best thing but i like moved it a little wider
like they didn't have
like barricades on the walk and they're like well it's great man the fans are
like you interact with
them like well this walk is like a half mile like you're walking through like
40 000 people yeah you
know and like you gotta wear a suit and everything and then like they're like
grabbing you and everything
and so yeah i moved the barricades a little adults yeah like a little wider
plus i mean we are in the
deep south so there's a lot of great things and but i mean there's just some
different things too now
you know they're like grabbing you and i got chew spit on her hand and stuff i've
never hugged a man
people just yelling stuff like yeah there's a lot it's like whoa can we like
move these just back a
little bit maybe like maybe i can just do the wave yeah you know hey guys good
to see you put the defensive
tackles along the outside the sec has historic venues right and a lot of
historic a lot of like
one thing that's interesting about the sec is you'll have people that didn't go
to college
but they will show up at the games as if it's their school and that doesn't
happen like in as many other
places it just does not happen yeah you have people who can't read people who
can't see but they'll
they'll show up and watch a game somehow um and you don't see that in other
conferences so that totally
happens and i i remember so my first taste of the south was going to tennessee
as the head coach
and i'm coming from i was the head coach of the oakland raiders and i've been
at usc before this
i'm like coming from california to like tennessee and i remember i'm like there's
a lot of people
they have a spring game there's like 70 000 people here at the spring game like
50 000 there two hours
before and they're like yeah at the at the big games like the thing will sell
out then there'll be
another 20 000 outside and i'm like i went to school and like no no don't get
it no and then
when i went to alabama the same thing they're like no half these people didn't
go to school here they
just they lived in the state at one point so they it's their team it's not
because they went to school
there and like their passion is unbelievable and i'm like wait you didn't even
go to school over here
no no no i didn't go to school at all but my daddy knew somebody that did yeah
i'm like wait your dad
went no he didn't either so no one in your family ever went no sir to alabama
no sir but you like your
whole week your whole year is affected whether they win or lose like just angry
the rest of the year
whether they win or lose that like alabama tennessee game yes that's it yes sir
but it doesn't impact you
like your job do you work for it but no i don't work sir but i cheer for the
tide i mean they got
that one guy that uh roll tide willie now and he's uh he was in the military
with my dad's buddy but um
what's one of the most aggravating traditions that you think and what's one of
the best traditions you
think in college football if you're even up on them i know there's a lot of
them out there
well this is like a big tradition like as far as everywhere not specific places
like i i love the
band thing you know before like it's just really cool when they have the band
out there and they
spell things speaking of the tennessee the opening of the t and then run out
like that was really cool
to like see you're like right there and then like the band just opens up the t
and you run out like
that's that's a really cool tradition um and is there one that's kind of aggravating
you see
at a place somewhere it could be sec or anywhere um the fan storming thing is a
little bit tough
you know like they don't do it in the nfl they found a way like i get it it's
pretty cool um
but then it can be aggravating because like they're storming and like
then you're worried about like i'm hitting you what's going on what are they
going to do it's like very
you know i'm very invasive at that point but um i think like if they could just
let everybody out
and then let the fans on so they still get to tear the goal post down because
that's the school and
stuff yeah yeah i was at that old at the um alabama vanderbelle game and that
was pretty sick and
some guy on the sidelines squeezed me so hard bruised one of my ribs really bad
or dislocated it right
so i was like doing like that or whatever and then every other player kept
hugging me so yeah it's
just at just one after the nut just the biggest guys you ever even seen just
hugging you yeah they're
all excited yeah and it was just oh dude it was that was a really tough day
that was a tough year
actually that took about eight weeks to get better from yeah but you were at a
historic like moment it
was so cool that will probably never happen ever again it's a once in a
lifetime well diego
javier got that sixth year that eighth year i think he got yeah you never know
did that uh were you
surprised when he got that did it affect any of the way that were your players
able to apply for
anything like that uh we tried we didn't win it um jack start actually tried to
get another year um
or at least see if the option was there and um you know they denied it but hey
there we are we iced
that dude up clark lee good dude i like i love clark yeah he is a good guy they
got a fun group over
there and that's kind of underdog energy over there too you know big time is
there an sec team that you
also cheer for on the low kind of them i do yeah vanderbilt because i think
they have like so much
stacked against them you know like they got higher academic qualifications to
get guys in so they can't
just get all the players everybody else can you know like um harder you know
because the stadiums
usually half full and stuff so um i i root for them especially clark because
that's a hard job
yeah and so that's that's pretty cool for them to win like they did this year
yeah it's exciting over
there yeah they carry the goal post and then they try to valet park the goal
post i heard they got
tired of it or whatever i didn't know that and they tried to valet him at a
restaurant i'm like you
can't who are you gonna give it to those three guys up front or whatever like
that's crazy yeah but
that might be the only like sec town that has valet that's a good that's it
like when you say that that
doesn't feel they know valet in most these talent valet that's a great point
yeah yeah they tried to
valet i'm at 