When a coach leaves a program under complicated circumstances, he carries the memory of that place with him — and the place carries its memory of him. Lane Kiffin's return to Oxford as LSU's head coach offered college football one of its more human rituals: the homecoming that is not quite a homecoming, where former loyalties curdle into something between affection and grievance. In the SEC's Grove, that tension would find its most civilized expression — mockery wrapped in hospitality, critique delivered with sweet tea.