Lane Kiffin On College GameDay

Former USC coach Lane Kiffin, who was abruptly fired last month, conceded on ESPN's College GameDay show Saturday morning that he has made mistakes at each of his previous coaching stops, and that he understood athletic director Pat Haden had a difficult decision to make.

In an interview with ESPN's Chris Fowler, Kiffin said his firing was 'very difficult,' and that it's been a 'very hard two weeks.' They were Kiffin's first public comments since he was fired.

When asked about his 4-7 record over his last 11 games, Kiffin said it was a fair question.

'Obviously I'm to blame being the head coach,' he said. 'There are a lot of things I should've done better. At the same time, I'm very proud of our time there. If you look at what sanctions do to major programs, to be 28-15, there's some good stuff in there.'

Haden fired Kiffin on Sept. 29 at the Trojans' private airport terminal in Los Angeles when the team plane returned from a 62-41 loss to Arizona State. Kiffin's overall record in four years at USC was 28-15.

'Pat has a very hard job, and I understand an athletic director's job, being around the sport so long,' Kiffin said. 'Even though he may see what's going on on the inside and how hard it was to deal with the sanctions and our reduced roster, at the same time he has a lot of people to answer to,' Kiffin said. 'I appreciate Pat's support over three and half or four years there.'

USC was ranked No. 24 this preseason but dropped out of newsandtalking.blogspot.com Top 25 by Week 3.

'It was very difficult,' Kiffin said. 'I have great passion for USC, for those players, for those coaches, and it was a difficult situation because you put so much into those kids, and to have that taken away, it was very hard.'

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