Paul Finebaum predicts where Lane Kiffin will be in five years

This season’s coaching carousel was one one for the ages. Right at the center of it was Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin, who ultimately left for the LSU job.

Kiffin was hotly pursued by both Florida and LSU publicly, while Florida State reportedly made a quiet run at him behind the scenes. Regardless, everything Kiffin did was scrutinized.

So when reports of Kiffin issuing an ultimatum to staff members to join him at LSU surfaced, few were totally stunned. ESPN analyst Paul Finebaum seemed to believe that’s just part of what you get with Kiffin.

But how might the marriage between Lane Kiffin and LSU actually play out? Well, Dan Patrick asked Finebaum where Kiffin will be at in five years on The Dan Patrick Show.

“He might still be in LSU, but he’s going to have to win a national championship,” Finebaum said. “But I would think ultimately he’ll move on. I don’t know if Lane goes back to the NFL at some point. I think now that Al Davis has been dead and buried for a number of years, I think the reverberations from that are over.”

Lane Kiffin is now coaching at one of the absolute powerhouse programs in college football, though. Whether he has the appetite for the NFL again with that as the backdrop remains to be seen.

At the very least, Finebaum believes Lane Kiffin will be highly successful while he’s in Baton Rouge. How long he stays there? Well, that’s another matter.

“I think ultimately he’s just never going to be happy anywhere,” Finebaum said. “But I think he could get a national championship at LSU. Dan, stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Les Miles and Ed Orgeron both won national championships at LSU. The two of us could walk in off the street and win a national championship down there. It’s not that hard.”