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Lane Kiffin walks into Vaught Hemingway Stadium this weekend as LSU's head coach, following his departure from Ole Miss for Baton Rouge, and Oxford has already arranged mounted police and extra security patrols for the occasion.
The game carries the weight of a departure the locals have not forgiven. The pattern runs back at least to 2008.
Nick Saban left LSU following back-to-back SEC Championships and a national title, spent two seasons with the Miami Dolphins, and returned to the college ranks at Alabama in 2007.
One year into that tenure, the top-ranked Crimson Tide traveled to Death Valley.
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