Lane Kiffin added a minimum of $4 million to his annual wage within the transfer from Ole Miss to LSU, in keeping with his contract time period sheet printed by NOLA.com on Monday.
Kiffin’s contract is for $91 million over seven years, a mean annual wage of $13 million per 12 months that will make him the No. 2 earner amongst school soccer coaches.
Kiffin, who was paid $9 million per 12 months at Ole Miss, ended weeks of hypothesis about his future and confirmed leaving for LSU on Sunday. He formally signed a contract to take the reins at LSU.
Kiffin, 50, departs after the Rebels completed the common season with an 11-1 report and a possible spot within the 12-team School Soccer Playoff this season. In his assertion, Kiffin confirmed that he wouldn’t be teaching Ole Miss within the postseason.
“After a whole lot of prayer and time spent with household, I made the tough resolution to just accept the pinnacle teaching place at LSU,” his assertion learn partly. “I hoped to finish a historic six-season run with this 12 months’s crew by main Ole Miss by means of the playoffs, capitalizing on the crew’s unbelievable success and their dedication to complete robust, and investing all the pieces right into a playoff run with guardrails in place to guard this system in any areas of concern.
“My request to take action was denied by (Ole Miss athletic director) Keith Carter, regardless of the crew additionally asking him to permit me to maintain teaching them so they may higher keep their excessive degree of efficiency. Sadly, meaning Friday’s Egg Bowl was my final recreation teaching the Rebels.”
Later Monday, LSU will formally introduce Kiffin as head coach.
Defensive coordinator Pete Golding was promoted to move coach at Ole Miss. Golding takes over instantly and his first head-coaching expertise of any type can be to information the Rebels within the CFP.
“Coach Kiffin and I met (Saturday), and he knowledgeable us that he’s accepting the pinnacle teaching place at one other college. For our program to start getting ready for its future — each the brief and long run, he can be stepping away from the crew instantly,” Carter stated in a prolonged assertion that didn’t point out Kiffin once more.
“With this growth, we couldn’t be extra excited to announce Pete Golding as the following head coach of the Ole Miss Rebels. His tenure will start instantly as he leads our program within the pursuit of a nationwide title. At this time’s crew assembly was a transparent indicator of his means to provoke our squad. All of our gamers and coaches are ecstatic and able to lock arms for a playoff run.
“… I wish to thank our student-athletes, our workers and Insurgent Nation for his or her endurance and assist throughout this course of. The way forward for Ole Miss Soccer is brighter than ever, and we look ahead to taking the following steps in our program’s journey with Pete Golding on the helm.”
LSU, together with fellow SEC program Florida, had been linked to Kiffin for the reason that firing of former coach Brian Kelly in October. In current days, it grew to become clear that LSU had change into the frontrunner to rent him. The college is now reportedly giving Kiffin a seven-year deal price roughly $12 million per 12 months plus potential bonuses, in keeping with ESPN.
Georgia’s Kirby Good was the highest-paid school coach in 2025 at $13.3 million a 12 months in keeping with the USA At this time coaches’ wage database. Ohio State’s Ryan Day was paid about $12.5 million in 2025 after the Buckeyes received the nationwide championship in January.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Coach Kiffin as the following head coach of the LSU soccer program,” LSU director of athletics Verge Ausberry stated in an announcement. “We shared after we started this search that LSU would safe the very best coach within the nation and Lane Kiffin is simply that.”
Kiffin has posted a 55-19 report (.743) with Ole Miss since taking the reins in 2020, main the crew to 5 straight bowl video games, together with wins within the Outback Bowl, Peach Bowl and Gator Bowl.
Earlier than that, Kiffin rehabilitated his profession following tumultuous tenures with Tennessee (7-6) and Southern Cal (28-15) by serving as an assistant beneath Nick Saban at Alabama from 2014-16. That led to his return to a lead position with Florida Atlantic from 2017-19, the place he went 27-13.
Kiffin additionally had an unsuccessful 20-game NFL teaching stint with the then-Oakland Raiders in 2007-08 earlier than being fired 4 video games into his second season. He went 5-15.
Kelly went 34-14 at LSU, and mixed with profitable tenures at Central Michigan, Cincinnati, and Notre Dame, provides him a 200-76 report over 22 seasons (.725). Kiffin is 117-53 (.688).
–Subject Stage Media
