Work out like Lane Kiffin with Lane Kiffin's workout playlists

Hello there, and welcome to your Thursday FOIAball. 

If you didn’t click over to Front Office Sports on Tuesday to read my piece on private jet spending, you can still do that today. It’s a real big dive, with over 40 schools in the dataset. 

Today, we’re going in a totally different direction, because I got very lost in an internet rabbit hole yesterday. Having found my way out, I want to guide you through it. 

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Like most writers, I am an inveterate procrastinator. Whenever I need to put words to paper, I find ways to stall. One of my favorites is searching for public figures’ digital footprints.

I used to work at a site that covered the online life of politicians, and I got really good at unearthing burner Twitter accounts, alt Facebook pages, and Finstas galore. I love digging through that stuff.

Which is what happened this week, when I found myself on the Airbnb reviews of a townhome in Oxford. 

There, during a snowstorm this winter, a bunch of Ole Miss bros took shelter when their power went out. The rental happened to be run by Lane Kiffin’s brother, Chris. The review makes it clear that their parents booked it, meaning the students might never have realized. The adults sure didn’t. They told Chris they couldn’t wait to come down and enjoy a game in the fall. Hotty Toddy!

[Side note: If you are one of these bros, please reach out to me.]

Inspired, I continued sleuthing. And wound up discovering that college football’s most SoundCloud rapper-esque coach does, in fact, have a SoundCloud account.

One of his only friends on the app is a celebrity for whom drama similarly follows everywhere.

While college coaches profess to be Luddites, Lane Kiffin is a very public, prolific poster. A thing I’ve learned is that if someone is really online somewhere, they are really online everywhere. 

And people, they’re not typically creative when they don’t have to be. All your accounts spread across the web are some variation of your first and last name. Celebrities are the same, adopting only a modicum of OpSec. A quick visit to Wikipedia will tell you everything you need to know.

Like reminding us that “Lane” is not Lane Kiffin’s first name. He is named after his father, Monte. Yes, his initials are MLK. 

Tossing a couple of combinations into Google led me to a SoundCloud playlist titled “Copy of Pilates 3-2-26.” 

It’s insanely good, full of bumping remixes that could only exist on SoundCloud. I wrote this whole post listening to it.

(I’m hosting it on my own account because I don’t want to steer everyone to (probably) Lane Kiffin’s page.)

If you recall, when Kiffin left Ole Miss, fans weren’t the only ones upset. He left behind a string of scorned fitness instructors who revealed he was the kind of student who changed the instructor’s music mid-class and adjusted the heat to his personal liking. Allegedly. 

My curiosity was piqued. The account’s location, though, is Miami. Kiffin doesn’t have any ties there, but his new, all-white wardrobe certainly matches the vibe.

There are stronger tells. The playlist only has one like. That is from an account with the same first and last name as a staffer who, in December 2025, ditched a job at Ole Miss to take the same role at LSU. 

The page only follows three individuals, all musicians: Kesha, Bon Jovi, and Morgan Wallen. You can’t discern anything from that, except that… the account only has two followers. One of those is a page with the same name as one of those musicians. 

Morgan Wallen has a main, public SoundCloud page. But a much smaller account in his name follows Lane Kiffin. Maybe that’s a fake, but it would be a very random coincidence. Especially because Wallen and Kiffin are friendly. The controversial country star kicked off his 2024 Oxford concert embracing Kiffin, then later sent him a commemorative football honoring the show. 

But the definitive proof is the account’s other follower: the owner of a pilates studio in Baton Rouge. Which led us to the original provenance of the playlist, another instructor at the same studio. 

It’s a studio Kiffin has posted about taking classes at. Does he follow both instructors on Instagram? Of course he does. It seems Kiffin liked the playlist so much he had to have it for himself, making a SoundCloud account just to listen to it on the go. 

Allegedly. It could be someone else’s account. But that’s not all. Would you like to know what other tunes Kiffin (maybe) works out to? Well, having a handle we’re confident he uses led us to a Spotify account that only has one follower. That would be Sally Rychlak, Kiffin’s old girlfriend. 

That account has a five-track workout playlist that features two Taylor Swift remixes and a Kesha song. The account follows three artists, one of whom is Wallen. 

It also includes a playlist named after a Wallen song, “Whiskey Glasses,” which features a number of country songs before making a very hard pivot into the same kind of hype tracks featured on his workout playlists.

Here’s a link, again hosted on my account.

But this is not the end of our rabbit hole. In trying to suss out other accounts, we stumbled across a TikTok that is more than likely his wife Layla’s. 

It follows the same people that she follows on Instagram and Twitter, individuals with no celebrity or notoriety whatsoever. It’s an account her daughter, Landry, has commented on.

The account’s likes are public. A lot of them are videos of her children and posts about the town she used to live in. If it’s an elaborate troll, it’s an extremely thorough.

Especially because a lot of the account’s likes are of videos that we can’t do justice describing. We just need to post the screenshots. 

But those are a treat just for our paid subscribers.