Lane Kiffin says, 'I absolutely made the right decision.' But did he really?

If you’d formed a list of candidates LSU should pursue after it fired Brian Kelly, it might have looked like this:

LSU got it done. Lane has landed in Baton Rouge.

As LSU athletic director Verge Ausberry put it, Kiffin possesses "a big enough personality to operate in a state of big personalities."

Now, what does it all mean?

For Kiffin, leaving Ole Miss on the doorstep of the playoff marks a sharp pivot in his redemption story. He's reviving his renegade past and trading being the lovable underdog for LSU's vaulted ceiling. At LSU, he'll enjoy every advantage to win a national championship. Kelly thought those advantages would yield his first national title. He thought wrong.