I'm with lane kiffen. Using mental health as an excuse to not do your job is pathetic. These young men are getting hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarships and NIL deals. Mental health breaks are a joke. That's called a vacation. You can't just up and take a vacation with no notice.

I think kicking him off the team was 100% justified. You don’t get to miss 2 weeks and still play ball. I also think that Lane could have handled it a little different. You can’t treat people with mental health issues the same way you do normal people. Mental health is real. If this kid was really spiraling and going through stuff, at least get him some help after dismissing him from the team.

Love your content. Nothing but truth and logic. Kudos!

even with the whole mental health thing.....communication would've solved this. if you communicate up front rather than just not showing up, there's a huge difference. No you can't just not show up for school, work, etc. for 2 weeks without saying anything and expect your job to be there, your grades to be great, etc. sack up.

The kid was secretly recording this meeting because he was already thinking about a lawsuit. Who secretly tapes these conversations….. this move shows the player’s true motive.

7:50 🔥 good point

“I’m bringing my Louie with me” - Deion Sanders - Colorado Buffaloes Coach

It’s cracks me up when Jake introduces his brother as former western Colorado tech wide receiver. I can’t tell if he’s trolling his brother or not. lol

Lane did nothing wrong. I was military. AWOL is a disciplinary matter. You can’t stop communicating and expect people to change for you. How could his teammates and coaches look after him if he disappears? He’s accountable to his teammates in this matter as well. I’m with Lane

I’m so glad people are finally starting to catch onto the HUSTLE of mental health. It’s so blatantly obvious when people are using it as a crutch

Having your feelings hurt is Not a mental health issue. It’s a maturity issue

I stand with Lane Kiffin the guy recording that meeting tells me everything I need to know about him. I hope the guy gets the help he needs but he clearly ain't cutout to be a big time football player and shows no respect to the head coach.

Lane Kiffin ain't wrong.

You can't use an employer/employee relationship as an example for a student/athlete comparison. There are different rules, requirements, and procedures at play.

Fantastic!

If you don't like that he called him a pu$$y then you're missing the point. No matter the verbiage used, the thoughts are the same about that player or employee; they are not mentally tough and lack resilience. The player's problem with being called a pu$sy is because he's a...

Lane kiffen taught him a great lesson. Fully agree with his decision. Players want to get paid and full transfer ability? Okay, but the business goes both ways. Kiffen needs to clean his mouth though.

My boss would do EXACTLY the same thing if I needed two weeks off for mental health. And I have terrible mental health, horribly worrisome person. Just gotta fight it, and sometimes you need help, but you will have consequences for taking that time at times...

I’m with Lane on this.

my favorite show to watch on sports, and topics relating to sports, agreed with all points. we all go through shit, but I wake up and go do my job at the end of the day

Coach is in the right. I get it. I got it before your explanation. These kids need to step it and grow up!

You boys just earned a new subscriber. Kids are too soft these days and this kid wanted to play victim. His whole tone of trying to portray how 'sad' he is in that clip is laughable. I hope this kid doesn't see a dime from that school.

If he doesn’t show up in the real world ypu lose your job, you don’t eat, you don’t pay your rent.

Two wrongs don't make a right; the player had no business not showing up to meet with his coach. At the same time, the coach had no business talking to anyone in the same manner that he wouldn't want anyone talking to his wife

"mental health break" for football? New generation is so soft.

I hope they sue him for 40 mill

He did call him that over mental health he called him that because he acted like one. Lane is right with this one. If you are cut out for the sport and want to whine about being moved to scout team, etc. then just transfer. No job allows for you to act like this and it’s time we call these people out for hiding behind an issue people actually suffer from. I’m glad this is backfiring on him.

Agree with lane about kicking him off, but calling him a p…. For hiding behind mental health was a bad move. Settlement coming. Book it

It’s not appropriate, in my opinion, to speculate on any of this with no real knowledge of the situation.

The guy basically told Lane that if he was moved back to his original position all would be well. That isn’t a mental problem other than trying to set up a lawsuit.

This is a click bait title. Lane wasn’t criticizing mental health he was criticizing a soft individual trying to hide behind the taboo curtain of mental health

Too much toxic masculinity on these foo’s.

Lane is right.

Real Mental Health is an issue. I think you mean the ones that are faking it or playing it sissy. I have mental issues I take meds for. It's not a joke at all, but yes. You always stay in contact with your boss 100% fam. really enjoyed the video. EDIT: Sorry I didn't realize you was referring to a certain age group also. I agree, they actually don't know what is real mental is. They think it's sad, no sad is life. Krayzie Bone said it great in a song, Life is a B(sure you know this word) and the B is on her period.

Ain’t nothing wrong with taking a mental health break. Just put in your PTO ahead of time and make sure your communicate with your boss

Pat dye was great and so was Curt Crain. 1 hell of a linebacker!

Mental health is real. But we do live in a world where there's work that's gotta get done, and no one wants to do it but it has to get done. No one is perfect, everyone makes mistakes, and we should all have grace for each other's mistakes. And Lane could have been nicer, sure. But this kid in many ways is in a MUCH more secure situation than he'll ever likely be in, in the future. He's 21, no responsibilities or dependents, his dorm is still paid for through the end of the semester, got that college meal plan. Maybe your boss at work brings you into the office and tells you in nicer words that you're losing your job because you went AWOL for 2 weeks. Ok, if you've got a wife, kids, and your own mouth to feed, a mortgage or rent is due at the end of the month. It will suck way worse even though your corporate boss maybe doesn't use a swear word.

Why’s this shit gotta come out before such a big game… Uga will get no credit for this win if they win….

Pat Dye learned that from Coach Paul Bear Bryant who told his players one day your wife will be sick, your kid will be sick and you will be sick but you have to go to work anyway. It was from Coach Bryant that Pat Dye (assistant coach under Bryant) learned to instill mental toughness in his players. That is why the iron bowls were so tough because it was the same teaching leading both teams. Bryant & Saban both have huge Coaching trees of protégé coaches who take the secrets of their success with them when they go to teams that are rivals and create epic battlegrounds like BAMA VS GEORGIA now. Clemson was rebuilt entirely by BAMA coaches and ex players.

I think Lane Kiffin was in the right on this one. I agree with his action to remove the player from the team

Does he have proof that he was seeking mental help. If not then no case. I have mental problems every day and still let people know where I’m at 😂😮😅

I would kick him off the team also Hit the portal baby stop painting your nails stop crying in your mom's shoulder You're a grown man and that's that

I was a bit more empathetic to the kid when I heard the clip initially, kinda figuring that the kid may have some carried out problems that may have been legit which wouldn’t excuse his behavior but when I read the legal complaint to see what his claims were and lost most all empathy of his scenario when reading through the facts of the complaint. I obviously don’t know the kid and I could be entirely wrong but in almost all areas of these issues he points out how everything was the coaches or the university’s fault and none of it was on him at all. He points out injuries that occurred and how they led to severe depression and other effects of the depression that prevented him from being able to live a normal life and each time he lays out that the coaches didn’t provide him the mental health materials they were supposed to and because of that he didn’t know he needed to get treatment for his mental health issues and further that the coaches should have known his depression and referred him to mental health care. Those occurrences were scattered throughout following his injuries, following the meeting where his position coach told him he should transfer because he wouldn’t be used at ole miss and of course following the initial meeting with Kiffin. Each time he lays out that he hadn’t been taught to seek care for his mental health, despite the extreme severity to the point he says he couldn’t live a normal day to day life, but never reveals how he finally learned to seek out care when he said he was taking a mental health break when he was told of the position change and suddenly his mom called the very next day to request he be provided a counselor to help him. Yet somehow all the previous times where he hadn’t had his position changed or told he wouldn’t be playing he didn’t know he needed to get help nor did any human being he had a relationship with through all of that time ever notice nor tell him he needed to get help. He even pointed to how the coach’s should have referred him to mental health services when his grandmother died. All these instances he couldn’t get help because nobody helped guide him, thought it was all on his coaches to do so, but immediately following the position change he didn’t like he now knows all about his mental health and to treat it but never says in the lawsuit how he went from never knowing he needed help or how to get help because as he claims he didn’t know these things because his coach’s didn’t educate him about it. And then outside of the mental health argument he makes claims that his handling was based on race, gender, and even that he didn’t have a safe education environment to learn but at the same time he’s a 3.5 student who did well in school. I don’t wanna wish bad on a kid but it really seems like he tried to use mental health to his advantage and that really sucks because it harms people who are living with those struggles.

They better settle out of court because you literally can take a mental health break

Oh yeah if audio is planted by this young man he is expecting to record something that puts a University at risk of giving him some money

Taking responsibility and using common sense? Definitely not WOKE

This is a non-story.

What did Lane do wrong? I would have kicked him off the team too.

Lane Kiffin should also remove himself from the team. He's a bum coach.

I’m with Kiffen

Our whole country is soft. Know.

Pivotal moment for the future CFB landscape. If Kiffen isn’t supported here laziness and excuse riding will become a pandemic

Was this to show a lack of awareness or compassion on behalf of Lane? There has to be an angle to the video, at least more than leaving others to their imagination.

My dad always talked terrible to me on the ball field. When other parents would question him he would simply say “ I’m prepping him so that when he gets older he won’t be shocked when he gets dog cussed from coaches or bosses.

Player was soft and refused to communicate, Coach chose the worst approach, both sides messed this up

Lane Kiffen is a terrible head coach. I have no respect for him at all.