Find someone in sports having more fun right now than LSU Tigers linebacker Whit Weeks.
Just over two months after he and girlfriend Landry Kiffin hard-launched their relationship via Instagram, LSU has hired her father, former Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin, as the Tigers’ new head coach.
Weeks, 20, trolled Ole Miss fans over their coach leaving for the Bayou on Sunday, November 30, posting an in-game photo of himself via his Instagram Story in which he pretends to cry. He added a pair of laughing emojis above the picture.
Lane, 50, is headed to LSU after leading the Rebels to an 11-1 record and a likely spot in the College Football Playoff in 2025, leaving Ole Miss fans feeling betrayed. They even booed their former coach, hurling expletives and middle fingers at him on Sunday, while he boarded a plan out of town.
Weeks didn’t stop there. On a later slide, he shared a post from Barstool’s Ole Miss account that read, “We were blind” along with a picture of Landry, 20, sitting on Weeks’ lap. (In addition to Landry, Lane and his ex wife, Layla Kiffin, share daughter Presley, 18, and son Knox, 16.)
“Ya love to see it,” Weeks wrote above the post in all caps.
In the slide after that, he shared a post from ESPN’s college football account that showed a photo of Lane and the following quote from him:
“I hope when [emotions] settle down that there’s an appreciation about what we were able to do here and having, you know, the best run that’s ever been done in the history of this school.”
Weeks wrote “The greatest thing to ever happen at Ole Miss” above the post.
Weeks has played all three of his collegiate seasons with the Tigers, and despite the university firing former coach Brian Kelly in October there appears little doubt that he will stay in Baton Rouge to play for his girlfriend’s dad.
He battled injury in 2025, playing in only six games, accumulating 13 solo tackles and one sack.
Landry revealed that she was dating Weeks in an Instagram carousel on September 22, less than a week before the Tigers and Rebels squared off in Oxford.
“Happy,” she captioned the carousel, which included the photo of her sitting on Weeks’ lap.
Lane will take over a Tigers team that went 7-5 in the regular season, including a 24-19 loss to his Rebels.
“I was hoping to complete a historic six season run with this year’s team by leading Ole Miss through the playoffs, capitalizing on the team’s incredible success and their commitment to finishing strong, and investing everything into a playoff run with guardrails in place to protect the program in any areas of concern,” Lane said in a statement Sunday announcing his decision.“My request to do so was denied by [athletic director] Keith Carter despite the team also asking him to allow me to keep coaching them so they could better maintain their high level of performance. Unfortunately, that means Friday’s Egg Bowl was my last game coaching the Rebels.”
He continued, “While I am looking forward to a new start with a unique opportunity at LSU, I will forever cherish the incredible six years I spent at Ole Miss and will be rooting hard for the team to complete their mission and bring a championship to Oxford.”
