Lane Kiffin asserts that experiencing failure on a public stage in his early career provided him with valuable learning opportunities that ultimately made him a more capable head coach.

“I'm glad that I was thrown into those things that early. Now that made life challenging as well at that time. Now I look at it and say man that's great because I got to experience I got to screw up. I got to learn different things and now I have all these ways of doing things differently now than ba”