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Everyone relax, Lane Kiffin is taking care of business in his first year as head football coach at Ole Miss

Lane Kiffin was introduced as the head football coach at Ole Miss on December 9, 2019. Since then, he has had to get his new roster on board, build a coaching staff, sign a recruiting class, deal with a global pandemic, and lobby Mississippi state legislature.

He’s taking care of business.

Let’s start at the beginning. When the 45-year-old seasoned veteran coach took over the Rebels, the team was coming off a 4-8 season that was largely attributed to poor coaching decisions and little mistakes that proved costly. Kiffin’s first step was righting the ship.