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Lane Kiffin battles being the villain. He's plotting LSU hero move | Exclusive

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You think Lane Kiffin loves being the villain. You might be wrong. He's got a plan for how to restore his image and make a hero move.

BATON ROUGE, LA – Lane Kiffin left the rocking chairs behind. They’re still at his old house in Mississippi. Call it the byproduct of a coach too busy to buy a new home and relocate his possessions.

Or, call it symbolism. Kiffin put rockers on his front porch in Oxford, and on his Ole Miss office balcony. He didn’t sit in them much.

They were meant to showcase his embrace of a Mississippi lifestyle. As Kiffin puts it, if you don’t drive when the light turns green in Mississippi, “they don’t even honk. They just wait for you to go.

” He calls that chapter of his life, “Mississippi slowdown. ” “The slowdown was so good for me,” Kiffin says. HARD FEELINGS: Lane Kiffin thought he’d seen SEC hate.

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