FILE - Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin speaks to the crowd after being inducted into the Buccaneer's Ring of Honor during halftime of an NFL football game against the Atlanta Falcons Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021, in Tampa, Fla. Kiffin, a long-time NFL assistant coach whose Buccaneers defenses routinely ranked among the league’s best, died Thursday, July 11, 2024. He was 84. (AP Photo/Mark LoMoglio, File)
FILE - Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin looks on during an NFL wildcard football playoff game against the New York Giants, Sunday Jan 6, 2008 in Tampa, Fla. Kiffin, a long-time NFL assistant coach whose Buccaneers defenses routinely ranked among the league’s best, died Thursday, July 11, 2024. He was 84. (AP Photo/Steve Nesius)
FILE - Mississippi head football coach Lane Kiffin, right and his father, Monte Kiffin, a player personnel analyst on his staff, listen during a memorial service fo rthe late Mississippi State football coach Mike Leachat Humphrey Coliseum on the university's campus in Starkville, Miss., Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. Monte Kiffin, a long-time NFL assistant coach whose Tampa Bay Buccaneers defenses routinely ranked among the league’s best, died Thursday, July 11, 2024. He was 84. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)