Kiffin Folded on GameDay in Baton Rouge

Lane Kiffin folded on GameDay in Baton Rouge and still tried to wear the chaos-fighter halo for a national audience. He said people fight for what they believe in, standing there with Tiger Stadium in the backdrop and a mic in his hand. The LSU coach talked like a martyr while Dae'Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris sat off the 105-man roster with a court injunction clearing them. He found religion on the big picture of LSU the second the SEC mentioned expulsion and a fine. The coach kept the loophole warm for a later weekend and sent Week 1 out without those names. He wanted the brand of a man who fights and treated the injunction like optional homework once the conference got loud. The same mouth still wanted applause for courage nobody could find on the 105-man roster. He handed every bit of credit to that speech on the set. The GameDay mic still caught the whole sermon in Baton Rouge with Tiger Stadium sitting there like a witness.