Lane Kiffin had a rough Saturday on the field, and his daughter Landry caught heat online for her own SEC rooting choices.
Landry, who goes to Ole Miss, spent the weekend cheering on Texas in the Red River Rivalry against Oklahoma. She posted “a change of scenery,” and that was enough to set off plenty of reactions in her Instagram comments.
Some fans had fun with it, while others went after her for bouncing around between SEC programs. “Just can’t pick a winning team 🤦,” one fan joked.
“Bro lsu AND Texas lost 😭😭 yo please don’t root for ole miss gang 🙏🏻,” one fan added. “Didn’t your boy play for LSU?
😂,” one fan added.
It’s not exactly a mystery why Landry’s college football loyalties can look a little scattered. Her father is LSU head coach Lane Kiffin, LSU is his team, her boyfriend Whit Weeks plays linebacker there, and she’s also a student at Ole Miss, so the Rebels are part of the picture too. Over the weekend, Texas became the latest program to get her support, even though the Longhorns lost to Oklahoma.
Back in Baton Rouge, Kiffin was dealing with a tougher result of his own. LSU took an upset loss at Kentucky, and he pointed to the Wildcats’ punt return touchdown as a major example of what went wrong.
“If you don’t execute, you don’t execute,” Kiffin told reporters. “The punt return, you got a player there tackling him and doesn’t tackle him, and he goes outside and, you know, on the long run, he swooped out of a gap and the ball goes for a long run.
If you don’t do fundamentally sound stuff, you get exposed versus good teams.”
He also said LSU had chances to put the game away and didn’t finish. “When the chance comes in the fourth quarter, you can’t let ’em hang around,” Kiffin told reporters.
“We had the ball ahead and then we turned the ball over. And another chance to end it there so they don’t get it back.
Obviously, things go the other way, you look at yourself first.”
LSU fell to 4-2 with the loss.
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