A ‘Very Humbled’ Lane Kiffin Isn’t Bummed That Obama And His Ex-Wife Take All His Money

Source: uproxx.com --- Friday, December 30, 2016
When Florida Atlantic announced Lane Kiffin as the newest head coach of the Owls’ Football program, it made perfect sense. In Kiffin, FAU gets more publicity than Howard Schnellenberger and whatever coaches followed him combined. If he wins 10 games, the program becomes attractive to recruits that never even knew the Boca campus existed, and if he bails after two seasons they’ll at least be better off than they were this season. You know, unless he pulls a Tennessee on them. At FAU, a recently-single Kiffin gets to kick back in South Florida with a no-pressure job. He can ride out of town, win or lose, whenever he wants and no one will blame him because it’s a small school and he’s still, somehow, a high profile coach. Hell, he might even stick around for a while and really make people give a hoot about that program, as he told Sports Illustrated’s Pete Thamel in a very flattering new profile . “It’s almost like when you don’t have money, you think it’s important,” he says. “And once you have it, you’re like, ‘Was I really happy because I have more money going into the bank? No.’ There’s a reason why people retire and move here. I get to coach Football and live here. Howard Schnellenberger said it perfect. When he got this thing going, he said it was Football in paradise.” (How has “Football in Paradise” never been the name of a Kenny Chesney album?) Money is no issue to Kiffin in this “ Unwindulax ” phase of his career, though. ...

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