It is a Monday in June, which means it is approximately the 47th consecutive week that Lane Kiffin has dominated the SEC news cycle. Congratulations to all of us.
Here is where we are: On June 3, five-star edge rusher Jaiden Bryant — who had been committed to LSU since January, the very first commit of the Kiffin era in Baton Rouge — posted "Geaux Tiger 🐯🐯… incase y'all forgot" on his personal X account. Hours later, he flipped to Miami. The internet lost what remained of its mind. LSU fans went through the five stages of grief inside of forty minutes. Then Bryant's dad, Jesse, found a YouTube comment section and left the following note for the world: "Hey bro report what you know. My son didn't troll. We didn't know we was gonna flip. Talks fell through with LSU. We wasn't a priority to them so we went to where we were. Get out your feelings, you too old for that."
A father defending his son's recruitment in a YouTube comment. This is where college football lives now. This is the discourse.
LSU — undeterred, as Lane Kiffin always is — turned around four days later and landed five-star edge KJ Green out of Stone Mountain, Georgia. Green had originally planned to announce August 8, but visited Baton Rouge and apparently saw enough purple and gold to commit on the spot. He's ranked No. 8 overall and No. 2 at his position nationally. Kiffin essentially threw a decommit in the trash and pulled a same-or-better replacement off the shelf like he was swapping a light bulb. It's annoying and impressive in equal measure.
Now, as of Sunday evening, LSU has announced that five-star wide receiver Monshun Sales — currently committed to Indiana, comparable to Brian Thomas Jr. in size and speed, and one of the top two receivers in the entire 2027 cycle — is set to visit Baton Rouge on Tuesday after stops at Ohio State and Alabama. His final official visit is Texas on June 19. The Lane Train is trying to flip an Indiana commit. In June. Because apparently that is just what we do here.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the background, Kirby Smart spent the SEC spring meetings in Miramar Beach telling reporters "I've been a huge advocate that if we can't find rules that everybody plays by, then we should play our own. I'm not afraid of that. I'm not afraid to break away." The SEC seceding from the NCAA. Kirby Smart, who has won two national championships inside the existing system, would like a newer, shinier system — one where, presumably, he is still winning national championships but with fewer lawyers involved.
And Lane Kiffin, asked about his return to Oxford on September 19, issued the most Lane Kiffin possible non-answer: "I'm not even there yet. We've got so much work to do before that."
He is not there yet. He is in Baton Rouge hosting eight official visitors every weekend and scheming to flip a kid who plays in the Big Ten. The man does not stop. The SEC does not stop. None of this stops. See you tomorrow when someone else commits or decommits or posts a cryptic emoji and we all freak out again.
