{"id":666490,"date":"2026-05-26T18:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/666490\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T18:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:17:12","slug":"if-you-dont-then-weve-got-a-problem-former-lsu-quarterback-puts-tigers-head-coach-lane-kiffin-on-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/666490\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If you don’t, then we’ve got a problem’ \u2013 Former LSU quarterback puts Tigers head coach Lane Kiffin on notice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lane Kiffin is facing high expectations in his first season as the head coach of the LSU Tigers<\/a>. Kiffin left his job as the head coach at Ole Miss, while the rebels were in the middle of a playoff run, to take the LSU job.<\/p>\n

Lane Kiffin was essentially put on notice this week by a former LSU Tigers quarterback.<\/p>\n

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Kiffin is facing high expectations after leaving the Ole Miss Rebels last winter to replace Brian Kelly as the head football coach at LSU.<\/p>\n

For Kiffin, it\u2019s basically playoff or bust in year one at LSU.<\/p>\n

Former LSU QB says \u201cwe have a problem\u201d if Lane Kiffin doesn\u2019t take the Tigers to the College Football Playoff<\/p>\n

Former LSU quarterback Rohan Davey joined WAFB\u2019s Jacques Doucet this week to discuss the Kiffin era in Baton Rouge.<\/p>\n

Davey, who played for the Tigers from 1998 to 2001, made it clear that reaching the College Football Playoff should be considered the floor for Kiffin at LSU.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe floor for me \u2014 I don\u2019t care what the record is \u2014 the floor is the playoffs,\u201d said Davey. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what your record is, the floor is the playoffs. If you don\u2019t get in the playoffs, then we got a problem. Especially once you\u2019ve seen how well he\u2019s done at Ole Miss by going through the portal the last few years, and not having the brand behind him that he has now in LSU. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd also, the money behind you that you have at LSU. I know he\u2019s spent over $45 million, and that wasn\u2019t what was expected at the beginning when he first got here. They threw more money and more money (at the roster). And then, not to mention, you\u2019ve got Coach (Ed) Orgeron now on the staff. You got these guys that you wanted on the staff. Everything that he has wanted, he has definitely received.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davey also said that Kiffin should leave all of the Ole Miss references in the past<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s hard to disagree with Davey\u2019s take. In this era, championship rosters aren\u2019t built over several years \u2014 they\u2019re built in a single offseason. So the fact that Kiffin is in entering his first season at LSU shouldn\u2019t lower the playoff expectations in year one (despite Kiffin\u2019s comments earlier this spring<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Kiffin left a great situation at Ole Miss for what he believes is an even better situation at LSU. And he\u2019s received everything he wanted in terms of his coaching staff and resources (aka money for the roster). And he has one of the best fan bases in college football behind him. There are no excuses for coming up short this fall (outside of injuries, because it\u2019s nearly impossible to build quality depth in the transfer portal era).<\/p>\n

If LSU doesn\u2019t get to the College Football Playoff in 2026, it means Kiffin failed in the biggest way possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lane Kiffin is facing high expectations in his first season as the head coach of the LSU Tigers.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[5688,399,226986,291209,43305,291210,6342,398,396,397,34455,291208,99],"class_list":["post-666490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-football","tag-high-expectations","tag-jacques-doucet","tag-lane-kiffin","tag-lsu-qb","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-ole-miss","tag-rohan-davey","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}