Editor’s note: This article is part of our No Wrong Answers series, which explores the college sports questions you’ve always been curious about — and the ones you never thought to ask.Lane Kiffin is clearly a good football coach. But is he a great one who’s worthy of the $13 million LSU is paying him each year and the off-field drama he has brought with him yet again?Supporters can point to his 55-19 record at a traditional SEC have-not, Ole Miss, and his reputation as “transfer portal king.” Critics can cite the fact that his only league championships came in Conference USA with Florida Atlantic after he struggled with Tennessee, USC and the Oakland Raiders, often leaving drama in his wake.We prefer a deeper, more nuanced answer, so we’re adopting an approach based on how Florida legend Steve Spurrier judges coaches: How did he do compared to the guy before him and the guy after him at the same job?“If he was worse than those two, he wasn’t very good,” Spurrier said recently. “If he was a lot better than the one before him and after him, then he was pretty good.”Three storylines to watch: Indiana, Arch and KiffinStewart MandelTo see where Kiffin fits on that spectrum, we analyzed his performance across all four college head coaching stops (Tennessee, USC, Florida Atlantic and Ole Miss) in a variety of categories. We then compared Kiffin’s results to the showing of his predecessor and successor at each stop.We also borrowed another coaching axiom: You are what your record says you are, for two more stats.Finally, in search of context, we stacked Kiffin’s metrics against the nation’s other highest-paid coaches — Indiana’s Curt Cignetti, Georgia’s Kirby Smart Alabama’s Kalen DeBoer and Ohio State’s Ryan Day — plus the coach he replaced at LSU, Brian Kelly.