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<\/p>\nLane Kiffin is still seven months away from making his debut as LSU’s football coach, and yet, he has already managed to infuriate a portion of the fan base.<\/p>\n
LSU signed Kiffin to a seven-year deal that has an annual starting salary of $13 million. His decision to leave Ole Miss right before the start of the College Football Playoff was the talk of the sports world for a few days. He had an 11-1 season with the Rebels before taking his talents to Baton Rouge.<\/p>\n
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Even though Kiffin has done a pretty good job building up LSU’s roster, he lost a few supporters this weekend because he sent a message to President Donald Trump online.<\/p>\n
On Friday night, Kiffin posted a photo of a few “Make Baton Rouge Great” hats on social media. Apparently, people didn’t appreciate that he tagged Trump’s account on the platform formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n
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Dec 27, 2025; Houston, TX, USA; Louisiana State Tigers head coach Lane Kiffin looks on prior to the game against the Houston Cougars at NRG Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Maria Lysaker-Imagn Images\u00a9 Maria Lysaker-Imagn Images.<\/p>\n
(\u00a9 Maria Lysaker-Imagn Images.)<\/p>\n
“You’re so pathetic,” one fan replied.<\/p>\n
“20\u00a0year LSU fan here and NO LONGER am one after seeing this post,” a second fan commented. “Thank\u00a0god I went with my gut in not like this hire!”<\/p>\n
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“Guess I\u2019ve watched my last @LSUfootball game for the foreseeable future,” a third fan replied. “You couldn\u2019t have had the decency to make it until the preseason to keep the act that you\u2019re not an [expletive].”<\/p>\n
“You just don\u2019t know when to quit while you\u2019re ahead,” another fan said. “You’re disgusting.”<\/p>\n
Kiffin eventually deleted the post on X after receiving countless more complaints. However, he then reposted the same image<\/a> but without tagging Trump.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n What to expect from Lane at LSU?<\/p>\n Some fans might be annoyed by Kiffin’s social media activity but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s a really innovative coach.<\/p>\n As for Kiffin’s roster, he got himself a star quarterback for the 2026 season in Sam Leavitt. The former Big 12 Offensive Freshman of the Year had a great run at Arizona State before agreeing to terms with LSU.<\/p>\n If Kiffin leads LSU to the promised land at some point over the next few years, that’ll most likely silence his critics.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n This story was originally published by The Spun<\/a> on Jan 24, 2026, where it first appeared in the College Football<\/a> section. Add The Spun as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lane Kiffin is still seven months away from making his debut as LSU’s football coach, and yet, he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[332,7,7504,5042,1564,978,49,48,9607],"class_list":{"0":"post-704417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-football-playoff","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-football-coach","11":"tag-houston-cougars","12":"tag-lane-kiffin","13":"tag-lsu","14":"tag-ncaa","15":"tag-ncaa-football","16":"tag-president-donald-trump"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115956977469592227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}