College football's most-coveted coach has found a home at Ole Miss. But is Oxford enough?

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In a time of great sensitivity here, where tensions are high and anxiety lingers — will he stay? will he go? — Kiffin isn’t scurrying into a bunker or disappearing down a hole. He is, after all, Lane — brutally honest, unabashedly open and heartedly welcoming to a reporter for an interview within his office, where, mid-discussion, he reminds himself aloud about “the job thing we’re not going to talk about,” he says with a smile, before, talking about it, at least for a bit.

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But there really isn’t much to say, Kiffin says. He has never been happier or felt better about his life than he does right now. He hasn’t drank in nearly five years, rarely eats red meat, never eats bread, works out every single morning, watches his son throw touchdowns as a local high school quarterback and attends sorority events for his daughter at the school at which he coaches — all in a wholly unexpected place for a man who’s always craved the bright city lights and sunny beach communities. “It’s like this movie, an amazing movie,” he says. “What you thought you wanted and what you always pictured may not be what you eventually want when we get older and we change. We think this is, ‘We want more action and the city and things to do!’ Well, maybe it just all came together here.”

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