How Lane Kiffin responded to awkward question about LSU linebacker dating coachs daughter

Lane Kiffin recently faced a colorful question that not only would affect his LSU team but his own household.The Tigers’ coach made a July 30 appearance as the university hosted “The Huddle,” a football clinic dedicated to women.One of the participants in the clinic wasn’t afraid to ask: “Do you see Whit Weeks being your future son-in-law?”The question got a big reaction from the crowd as Weeks is a linebacker for the Tigers and is dating Kiffin’s daughter, Landry.“That’s a question for Landry’s mom, Layla, over there,” Kiffin said, before adding his wife “gave two thumbs up.”Weeks was also in the building at the event.

So, the host, sports reporter WBRZ LSU Brie Andras suggested circling back on the question with Weeks when he came on stage.Yet, Kiffin cut in to say: “Let’s see how he plays this year before we do that.”Landry and Weeks first went public with their relationship in September 2025 when the former posted a photo of herself sitting on Weeks’ lap and wrote “Happy.”In that same week, Kiffin, who coached Ole Miss at the time, jabbed Weeks in a postgame interview after beating LSU 24-19.“We believe in our players, we go for it on fourth down a lot, glad to have made the plays.

I’m looking for Whit right now to see if we covered the over,” he told ESPN.On Nov.30, Kiffin signed a seven-year, $91 million contract to coach LSU and his daughter’s new boyfriend.Weeks, who appeared in just eight games this season due to an ankle injury last season, announced in January he would be coming back to LSU for a senior season rather than entering the NFL draft.“College is too much fun to leave, and there is no better place in the country to be right now than Baton Rouge, Louisiana,” Weeks wrote on Instagram.

“All I want to do is ball in the purple and gold.See you in September.”Weeks tallied 14 solo tackles and 31 combined, along with one sack, three tackles for loss and a fumble recovery last season.Landry and We...