Lane Kiffin is quite the interesting animal when it comes to social media sometimes. Ole Miss and college football fans around the country understand this by now. However, when Lane Kiffin hilariously called out Dan Lanning (Oregon head coach) with a post this week, nobody seemed to quite understand why it was so funny.
To be fair, Kiffin’s complete lack of any explanation and the cryptic, random nature of the post being made at all was a bit confusing on the surface, but once you understand the full dynamics, it makes sense. And of course, it’s quite funny when we piece everything together.
In case you missed it, on Tuesday this week, Lane Kiffin posted a video of Ryan Rakowski, a state champion QB recruit from Palos Verdes, CA. And rather than saying anything at all Kiffin just tagged Oregon Ducks head coach Dan Lanning.
First off, this requires a bit of speculation as it wasn’t confirmed by Kiffin himself, but it adds up.
In short, Lane Kiffin seemed to be poking fun at Dan Lanning’s inability to recruit from his own back yard (the west coast), by essentially saying, “Here, you go Lanning. I found a west coast QB for you since you can’t seem to recruit the good west coast passers well enough to land any…Oh, and I’m probably going to take this one too.”
Allow me to explain. This isn’t likely supposed to be some big time serious jab at Dan Lanning. It’s likely just some friendly fun between two friends who worked together at Alabama back in 2015 (when Lanning was a GA and Kiffin was the offensive coordinator under Nick Saban). However, it is a funny nod towards the fact that Dan Lanning has struggled with traditional quarterback recruiting on the west coast (for the most part).
