Lane Kiffin & LSU Bracing For SAFETY ISSUES In Return To Ole Miss | Don’t @ Me w/ Dan Dakich
On this episode of Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich, Dan breaks down the high-stakes, hostile homecoming as LSU prepares to walk into a wall of noise against Ole Miss. From Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry calling for military backup to Kiffin admitting there are legitimate “safety issues” awaiting him on the sideline, SEC football culture is on full display. Dan dives into why Kiffin insists his players have nothing to worry about, how he’s shifting all the game pressure onto the Rebels, and why this is easily the most anticipated narrative of the college football season.
We’re 48 hours away from Lane Kiffin returning to Oxford as the head coach of the LSU Tigers, and things are starting to get nasty in his old stomping grounds.
Unfortunately, Landry Kiffin — Lane’s oldest daughter who still attends Ole Miss — has been dragged into the fire. The eldest Kiffin has been the subject of several vulgar bed sheet banners being hung around campus this week, all suggesting she had sexual relations with a former Ole Miss player.
I won’t name the player here for obvious reasons, but the internet makes things easy to find in 2026.
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Anyway, Kiffin, 21, took to TikTok Wednesday night to bash the students hanging the signs, saying she was being “turned into a punchline of a sexual joke” and denying she ever knew the player in question.
“I understand emotions are high this week, and people are upset, but I’m my own person,” Kiffin said. “I’ll never understand how someone can feel good about themselves putting such vulgar things about a girl on a giant banner hanging from their house.”
She goes on to say that students are “saying really inappropriate things about me with somebody I genuinely have never met in my life, which makes it even more frustrating,” and that she hopes “people realize there is an actual person behind the jokes people make.”
Mississippi Rebels head coach Lane Kiffin poses for a photo with his daughter Landry Kiffin prior to the game against the LSU Tigers at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Miss., on Sept. 27, 2025. (IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect)
Lane Kiffin of the LSU Tigers with Landry Kiffin before a game against the Clemson Tigers at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La., on Sept. 5, 2026. (University Images via Getty Images)
All of this stems from a rumor in Oxford — a long-running rumor, I might add — that Landry Kiffin and a former player had sexual relations during Lane Kiffin’s tenure at Ole Miss. Fans believe that is the reason this former player was essentially benched last season.
Landry has been dating current LSU linebacker Whit Weeks since last season.
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It’s one of those Reddit conspiracy theories that really catches fire on weeks like this. Again, Kiffin is still a student at Ole Miss even though her dad fled town last fall, which certainly adds an element to Saturday night’s showdown.
Speaking of Saturday night …
Head coach Lane Kiffin of the LSU Tigers is in action during fall practice at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La., on Aug. 22, 2026. (University Images via Getty Images)
LSU QB Sam Leavitt was listed as “doubtful” on yesterday’s injury report, which was stunning. Oh yeah! LSU star defensive end Princewill Umanmielen was also served with court papers, by Ole Miss, earlier this week.
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Police presence is high right now in Oxford. Banners are all over the place. Disgusting rumors are flying. Court papers are being served in parking lots of practice facilities.
We could be in for quite a show this weekend.