Lane Kiffin ready for start of his first camp at FAU

Lane Kiffin went out and spoke to some colleagues earlier this week. They weren't football coaches. Kiffin's first training camp as coach at Florida Atlantic opens Thursday, and ordinarily at this time of year he'd be swamped by writing practice scripts and locked in meeting rooms getting ready to tweak his offense. At FAU, for his fourth stint as a head coach, Kiffin is back in more of a CEO capacity — one where he will incorporate some things he learned while watching Nick Saban work at Alabama over the last three years. So that's why, when he was asked to go speak to CEOs at a networking event in South Florida this week, Kiffin felt perfectly comfortable in that element. He made jokes, told

Reports: NCAA, Ole Miss want Mississippi State's Leo Lewis at NCAA hearing

Leo Lewis was Mississippi State’s second-leading tackler in 2016. The NCAA wants Mississippi State linebacker Leo Lewis to attend Ole Miss’ Committee on Infractions hearing, and he may not have a choice in the matter.

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  Report: Ole Miss wants NCAA to require two Miss. St. players to attend hearing

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  Sources: Ole Miss wants ex-recruits at hearing

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Ex-USC DL Noah Jefferson won’t be transferring to Arizona after all

In early March, Noah Jefferson announced on Twitter that he would be transferring from USC to Arizona.  Nearly five months later? Never mind. Wednesday, UA head coach Rich Rodriguez announced that Jefferson will not, as previously expected, be playing for the Wildcats this season.  No reason for the abrupt and unexpected about-face was given. The coach did, though, intimate that a future pairing between the player and the program isn’t out of the question. Jefferson wouldn’t have been eligible to play in 2017 for the Wildcats even if his move to the desert had come to fruition. He would’ve, though, had two years of eligibility remaining beginning in 2018 at his disposal. A four-star member of

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  Pac-12 Media Days: Live updates from UW’s Chris Petersen, WSU’s Mike Leach and more

  The Seattle Times
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  Picking the Pac-12: Jeff Metcalfe's preseason football media poll

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