Sun-Sentinel · Mar 21, 2017
FAU opens spring practice as Lane Kiffin embraces new role
For seven minutes Tuesday during Florida Atlantic’s first spring practice of 2017, new coach Lane Kiffin’s audience was not his team. It was not his staff. It was neither reporters nor fans.
For seven minutes, Kiffin’s audience was FAU president John Kelly.
ADVERTISINGIt was Kiffin’s first practice as FAU’s head coach, and Kelly wanted to “see the energy of the guys” more than five months a head of the Owls’ season opener against Navy on Sept. 2. So Kiffin, in his trademark white visor, and Kelly, in a red and blue tie, exchanged handshakes at 9:59 a.m. and conversation shortly after that.