Family and Personal Life
Kiffin is the son of Monte Kiffin, a long time defensive coordinator in the National Football League, most notably since 1996 for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who now serves as the defensive coordinator on Lane's staff at USC.
In 1994 Kiffin graduated from Bloomington Jefferson High School in Minnesota and committed to Fresno State University. He played backup quarterback for the Fresno State Bulldogs and gave up his senior season to become a Student Assistant Coach at Fresno State, where his position coach was former University of California Head Coach Jeff Tedford. He graduated from Fresno State in 1998 where in addition to football, he played basketball and baseball.
Lane and his wife Layla, who is a University of Florida alumna, have two daughters named Landry and Pressley. In January 2009, Layla gave birth to their first son, Monte Knox Kiffin. He named his son Knox after Knoxville, Tennessee, in honor of the University where he served as head coach. Kiffin's brother, Chris, was a defensive lineman at Colorado State University and is the current defensive line coach for Ole Miss Kiffin's father-in-law, John Reaves, is a former NFL quarterback who played his college football for the Florida Gators.
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