
Lane Kiffin is set to decide between remaining with College Football Playoff-bound Mississippi and traditional SEC power LSU on Saturday. His former boss Nick Saban is very familiar with the Tigers job.
Saban led the LSU program from 2000 to ‘04, winning the first of his seven national championships with the program. He helped awaken the dormant power that was the Tigers program, which would win national championships under its next two coaches, Les Miles and Ed Orgeron, but failed to reach the expected level under Brian Kelly. LSU’s leadership believes Kiffin is the coach who can return them to the top of the sport.