Lane Kiffin is adding another staff member with experience in the Southeastern Conference to his initial LSU coaching regime, sources tell FootballScoop.

Kiffin and the Tigers are bringing aboard Joe Houston, who’s spent the past two years at the University of Florida under ex-coach Billy Napier’s staff.

Houston, who served as the Gators’s senior special teams analyst “GameChanger” in 2024, also was elevated to the role of special teams coordinator in 2025.

In addition to his SEC experience, which also includes a year on Nick Saban’s Alabama staff in 2019 as a senior special teams analyst, Houston brings with him to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, experience from the NFL. He logged four seasons that spanned the end of the Bill Belichick era, with the New England Patriots.

A former All-America kicker at USC, where he finished his playing career under Kiffin after starting for the Pete Carroll-led Trojans, Houston has also worked at Toledo and Iowa State among his stops.

Kiffin is entering his first year as LSU head coach, hired in late November to replace the fired Brian Kelly, 

Thus far, Kiffin has been able to retain star defensive coordinator Blake Baker, who was a top target for the Tulane job, and brought a number of offensive assistants with him from Ole Miss. That complement of coaches most notably includes offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr., who’s already received a raise to his initial LSU terms after Ole Miss’s attempts to convince Weis Jr. to remain in Oxford, Mississippi, under first-year head coach Pete Golding.