LSU coach Lane Kiffin was asking ChatGPT for legal advice, friend says

During a critical moment, Lane Kiffin's friend said the LSU football coach turned to an unlikely source.

Gus Stark/LSU/University Images via Getty Images LSU football coach Lane Kiffin's program was in the middle of an unprecedented legal fight.

Sports attorney Tom Mars, Kiffin's friend, told ESPN that the LSU coach turned to ChatGPT.

Mars said Kiffin would send him screenshots of ChatGPT's legal responses, which were wrong on the law.

Indiana head coach and reigning national champion Curt Cignetti has Google in his corner.

Apparently, LSU football coach Lane Kiffin relies on ChatGPT.

According to Kiffin's friend, who is also one of the nation's most prominent sports lawyers, the LSU football coach turned to ChatGPT for legal advice at a critical moment for the university.

"Usually, when I would express an opinion about what LSU was doing, Lane would reply with a screenshot from ChatGPT that supported LSU's position, which was almost always wrong," Attorney Tom Mars told ESPN.

Despite incurring the wrath of rivals, the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the NCAA, and many, many talking heads, LSU initially fought to add former NFL players Dae'Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris to Kiffin's inaugural squad.

In November, LSU announced that it had hired Kiffin away from the Ole Miss Rebels, a fellow SEC member, with a seven-year, $91 million deal that came in the middle of the Rebels' College Football Playoff run.

Both Wright and Harris played under Kiffin at Ole Miss, and both signed with NFL teams after going undrafted.

The situation escalated to the point that the SEC, of which LSU is a founding member, went to court to secure a ruling allowing conference leaders representing the other members to meet and consider LSU's status.

If LSU were kicked out of the SEC, the university would likely lose out on lucrative conference TV rights payments.

With university presidents, state attorneys general, governors, and even members of Congress involved, LSU was facing an unprecedented fight over its very future.