A leopard cannot change its spots, and Lane Kiffin cannot escape his tendencies.

Typically, the saying goes, “When one door closes, another one opens” — at least, that is what my parents always told me. In the case of former Ole Miss head football coach Lane Kiffin, it felt like one door opened and he, himself, slammed the other one shut, burned any bridge imaginable and seemingly made it his mission to paint himself as the victim when, in fact, he is not.

Kiffin announced via X that he accepted the LSU head coaching job at 2:03 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 30, after a season-long saga of unknowns and rumors surrounding himself and the program.

Kiffin spent six seasons in Oxford at the helm of a program coming off a four-season-long probation period, during which Ole Miss received…