#lanetrain

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Matt Corral will return to Ole Miss next season instead of turning pro. Is ranked second in the SEC in passing yards with 2,744 and touchdown passes with 24. #gameday🏈 #secfootball #collegefootball #vaughthemingwaystadium #nba #gamedayoutfit #mississippi #oxford #areyouready #youtube #waom #lanetrain #photooftheday #landsharks #hydr #sec #collegefootballsaturday #gameday #sportsmemes #olemissvsmsu #eggbowlchamps #youtuber #otkboots #youtubechannel #fivebelow #hottytoddy #olemiss #visitoxford #powderblue #oxfordms TWITTER- https://twitter.com/Natedrink Instagram- https://Instagram.com/natedrink1 YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/c/Natedrink1ADOW DONATE- CASH APP $NathanDrinkard https://www.instagram.com/p/CITkoDcjMYF/?igshid=telmgbmgxowa

[kingdavelegend]

I remember speaking to #FAU President: John Kelly. He told be at FAU for at least 10 years and his goal is to surpass #UF in all aspects. Kiffin is delivering his promise and for the past 2 years or so they have tied UF academicly according to whatever article I read. Now that's what I call a servant-leader. If they continue like that, who knows... #LaneTrain #Owls

[bigoshow]

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[johnnieb47]

Lane (Kiffen) Train 🚉 and FAU rolling through Boca. #lanekiffin #lanetrain #fau #dubliner #johnnievagabundo (at The Dubliner)

[junker-town]

PODCAST AIN’T PLAYED NOBODY: The Josh Allen Bowl and the Get Drunk Bowl

It’s time to preview the second week of bowl games, from FIU-Temple to Belk Belk Belk.

We’re celebrating the second round of bowls by having terrible audio for over half the podcast!

Topics:

#LaneTrain

The permanent Tennessee coaching search asterisk

Temple stunk and then didn't

Hey uh, FIU's been pretty good too

UAB and huffy Bama fans

The Josh Allen NFL Bowl

Godfrey's boy David Gibbs actually got somewhere this year

Jason Candle's doing a hell of a job

Long live the 2003 Hawaii Bowl. Get drunk.

December 26 stinks

Duke-NIU will be more enjoyable than you think

Don't miss Grandpa's last game (maybe)

Does Florida State show up?

Iowa-BC might not fit the stereotype

Arizona-Purdue is somehow a really really easy sell!

Drew Lock will go deep

Oklahoma State reeeeeeallly kinda blew an opportunity this year

It's hard to say new things about Stanford

Michigan State, dream wrecker

Belk

[buddyrabrahams]

Lane Kiffin trying to get ESPN ‘GameDay’ to come to FAU

Lane Kiffin has officially activated the FAU fan base.

Kiffin is in his first season as head coach of the Owls, and he has his Florida Atlantic squad 7-3 on the season and first place in their Conference USA division. But Kiffin isn’t satisfied with just getting wins and quietly moving on. Oh no; that’s not his style. Instead, Kiffin is trying to bring attention to his program any way he knows how. His latest move is trying to get ESPN’s “GameDay” to come to FAU next weekend.

Florida Atlantic hosts rival Florida International in their annual “Shula Bowl” next week, so the program is trying to get the roving ESPN pregame show to set up shop in Boca Raton.

In fact, a plane flew around Miami Saturday with a banner saying “Come to FAU”.

Come to #FaU http://pic.twitter.com/q4WspHIxu6

— rick puchferran (@rickpuchferran) November 11, 2017

“GameDay” was in Miami Saturday for the Hurricanes-Notre Dame game. And in case ESPN didn’t see the sign, Kiffin tweeted at GameDay and Kirk Herbstreit to make sure they saw the banner.

@CollegeGameDay @KirkHerbstreit http://pic.twitter.com/R1vbSlxJNG

— Lane Kiffin (@Lane_Kiffin) November 12, 2017

Beyond that there was a strong Kiffin presence on GameDay. Some signs from the crowd were FAU or Kiffin-themed, including one saying “Come to FAU.”

@CollegeGameDay Come to #thefaU @FAU_Football http://pic.twitter.com/jRgk8SK0wR

— Michael S Garrett Jr (@marchingfish) November 11, 2017

@CollegeGameDay Come to the FaU #shulabowl#lanetrain#motorforheisman @FAU_Football @FAUAthletics @Lane_Kiffin http://pic.twitter.com/YDCy5EOhEp

— Madalaine (@gymmaddie) November 11, 2017

The people have spoken! Looks like ESPN will have no choice but to go to Boca Raton on Saturday!

from Larry Brown Sports http://ift.tt/2zwkNoT

[dmbreport-blog]

All aboard: FAU has a Lane Kiffin-themed train on campus

All aboard: FAU has a Lane Kiffin-themed train on campus

ALL ABOARD….🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃 #LaneTrain pic.twitter.com/vjvfihaQj9 — FAU Football (@FAU_Football) November 2, 2017 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Sitting atop the conference, and staking claim to the nation’s 14th-highest scoring offense, Lane Kiffin’s first season with Florida Atlantic is off to a smashing start. The performance of the team has also stirred up support in south Florida, with the…

[natedrink]

Vanderbilt has fired Derek Mason. OC Todd Fitch will serve as the team's interim coach. Some names for Vanderbilt. Start with Notre Dame DC Clark Lea, who is an alum. Charlotte's Will Healy, SMU's Sonny Dykes, Navy's Ken Niumatalolo, Air Force's Troy Calhoun, LA Tech's Skip Holtz, Buffalo's Lance Leipold, Tulane's Willie Fritz and Kent's Sean Lewis are HC names. #realcolumbiasc #lanetrain #collegefootball #gamedayoutfit #mizzou #sec #ltkfall #gameday🏈 #collegegameday #waom #hottytoddy #mlb #falloutfits2020 #ootd #mizzoufootball #collegefootballsaturday #youtube #areyouready #big10football #olemiss #thanksgiving #lsu #mississippi #olemissfootball #pac12 #bdsdaily87j #olemissvsmsu #sportspicks #thesportsantidote #news TWITTER- https://twitter.com/Natedrink Instagram- https://Instagram.com/natedrink1 YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/c/Natedrink1ADOW DONATE- CASH APP $NathanDrinkard https://www.instagram.com/p/CIL7TCdDKTj/?igshid=gjjepixi8lif

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[junker-town]

Lane Kiffin found redemption without changing at all. We’ll see if that lasts.

FAU obliterated Akron in the Boca Raton Bowl last night. That’ll probably increase those applications another couple of percentage points.

The first month of Lane Kiffin's first season in charge at FAU was a little bit rocky. His Owls got trounced by Navy (42-19) and Wisconsin (31-14), then got stuck in Wisconsin for a while because of Hurricane Irma.

They returned home to beat Bethune-Cookman but then headed north again and fell at Buffalo, 34-31. They handed the Bulls four first downs via penalty, lost the turnover and field position battles, and got Little Things'd to death, basically.

This all made sense, considering what Kiffin inherited.

FAU was 115th in S&P+ last season. They beat three horrid teams -- SIU, Rice, UTEP -- and lost their other nine games by an average of 43-22. They had a couple of decent offensive players and one of the worst defenses in FBS. Kiffin was recruiting well and hired a hungry, mostly young staff, but that doesn't assure immediate success.

From the moment the Owls returned from Buffalo, however, everything changed.

The offense that was picking up steam became unstoppable. The defense that sagged so deeply in September began showing some bite. And FAU didn't lose again.

In yards per play, the Owls went from a margin of minus-0.7 in the first three games against FBS opponents to plus-2.0 in the last nine. It was plus-2.9 over the final five games.

The Boca Raton Bowl was destined to be a blowout.

The Owls played host to an Akron that had lived a charmed life, winning close games, benefiting from happy turnovers luck, and saving its best performance for the biggest game of the year, an upset of Ohio that allowed the Zips to steal the MAC East title.

The Zips had lost 52-0 to Penn State and gotten smoked by a combined 44 in two games against Toledo, the only MAC team comparable to FAU. They entered the game ranked 110th in S&P+, nearly 100 spots lower than the Owls. They deserved a little bit of good fortune after dealing with a boatload of injuries in 2016, but they were not going to be capable of sticking with a red hot FAU team for four quarters. For anyone in a bowl confidence pool, this was destined to be a 39-pointer.

Akron stuck with the Owls for about 19 minutes.

After two drives each, the score was 7-3 FAU. Total yardage: Owls 88, Zips 72.

The rest of the way: FAU 43, Akron 0. Total yardage: Owls 494, Zips 74.

The carnage was even worse than we assumed it would be.

The spread was more than three touchdowns, and FAU won by more than six TDs. The Owls even randomly went for two after a late-Q3 touchdown, and the rationale was very Kiffin:

Lane Kiffin said the 2-point conversion was prompted by an Akron athletics official talking trash yesterday. "His bad," Lane said.

— Tim Reynolds (@ByTimReynolds) December 20, 2017

His bad.

Over the last year, Kiffin has managed to craft a redemption story without actually changing.

After serving a stint as Nick Saban’s offensive coordinator/scorned son, he came to Boca intent on winning at all costs. If that meant hiring Art Briles’ son and saying, “My plan is not in place to please the media” (as if the media is why you should be wary of the Briles family at the moment), hiring his brother (who recently received a show-cause penalty from the NCAA), or running the score up on an overmatched opponent because of an “athletics official talking trash yesterday,” so be it.

When you’re winning, that’s all considered personality. And there’s no doubting that Kiffin has plenty of that. He proves it on Twitter almost every single day. His web presence has basically become its own sentient being at this point. He has begun to morph into a combination of Steve Spurrier and, well, a younger Lane Kiffin.

There’s also no doubt that hiring him has benefited FAU immensely.

Kiffin's impact has transcended football. [FAU president John Kelly] told ESPN earlier this month that FAU's out-of-state applications for the 2018 fall semester were up 35 percent.

"And we haven't done anything else differently, so it has to be Lane," Kelly said. "He just gets it, both as a football coach and being able to attract attention to our university. I laugh just about every day at something he puts on Twitter and understand that he's about the good of the institution and is thinking about what appeals to a 17-year-old kid and not a 60-year-old guy."

FAU is a school in an affluent, white city with a huge senior population. It almost named its stadium after a gross for-profit prison. But not only is Kiffin attracting football talent to Boca Raton all the same, he’s attracting out-of-state students who just want to be near the football program.

Kiffin just signed a 10-year contract extension, and while that probably won’t keep him at FAU for an entire decade — if it does, you can make some money off of it — he’ll probably leave FAU better off whenever he does leave, especially if an increased buyout ends up part of the deal.

This is the Flutie Effect magnified. The longer FAU keeps Kiffin, and the longer Kiffin keeps winning (both of those are required), the more of a national presence this university will have, even out of the sports realm.

This doesn’t have to last, of course.

Maybe a given batch of transfers doesn’t pan out. Maybe some assistants leave, and their replacements don’t pack the same wallop. Maybe character issues permeate the two-deep. Maybe the school doesn’t address it properly.

Or maybe not. Those are all part of an undetermined future. In the present tense, no school has benefited from a recent coaching hire like FAU. The Owls just won 11 games for the first time, and they did so with:

A junior starting quarterback (Jason Driskel)

A sophomore star running back (Devin Singletary)

A freshman No. 1 receiver (Willie Wright)

A sophomore tight end (Harrison Bryant)

Sophomore and junior starting offensive tackles (Reggie Bain and Brandon Walton)

One senior among the top 14 tacklers on defense

FAU could be even better next year.

And the Owls were already one of the best teams in the country over the last month or two. I’m not sure where this ride on the #LaneTrain ends up, but right now, FAU is enjoying it immensely.

[junker-town]

Yep, Lane Kiffin just completed an 11-win season in his very first year with FAU

Kiffin took over a 3-9 FAU team and just got 11 wins in his first season. He also wants Bama.

The FAU Owls finished the 2017 season 11-3, capped off with a 50-3 Boca Raton Bowl victory over the Akron Zips on Tuesday night. It’s been an incredible first year for head coach Lane Kiffin, who brought the program from a dismal 3-9 record in 2016, to 11-3 with a C-USA title and bowl win in his first season as the Owls’ head coach.

Tuesday night’s game was a blowout — the Owls led 21-3 at halftime and didn’t let up in the second half. In fact, Kiffin even went for two with his team up 31 points in the third quarter:

The win marks the first bowl victory for the Owls since 2008, too. Before the game kicked off, FAU announced a new 10-year deal with Kiffin that extends through 2027.

Kiffin’s had an exceptionally winding career for someone who’s still just 42. He’s done good coaching jobs (like USC and Alabama offensive coordinator stints) and bad ones (like as Raiders and USC head coach) and had uncomfortably dramatic exits from the last four jobs he’s had. What Kiffin did this year may be his best coaching feat yet.

Consider how lousy FAU was before Kiffin’s arrival.

The Owls were 3-9 in each of the last three years under Charlie Partridge.

Their best record in four C-USA seasons was 6-6 in 2013.

The program had made two bowls in its brief history (as an FBS team since 2004, and only as a football program at all since 2001). They’d won six or more games two other times, though they didn’t make bowls for various reasons.

The 2016 team was really, really bad. The offense scored 26 points per game (80th in the country), and the defense gave up 40 (123rd out of 128 teams).

Now consider what’s happened since Kiffin showed up.

Kiffin has two structural advantages. One is that almost 2016’s entire team returned, with FAU ranking fourth nationally in returning production. The other is that there’s plenty of talent in South Florida, which should be a playground for a good recruiter.

He turned FAU into a destination for junior college transfers, including four who appeared on the Netflix show Last Chance U. The list of transfer acquisitions includes a bunch of former four-stars, and many of them weren’t even eligible this year.

The defense shaved 15 points per game off its average, rising to 50th in the country entering the weekend. And the offense was a typically exciting Kiffin outfit.

In the C-USA title game win against North Texas, Kiffin’s offense was scheming and stunting. Look at this misdirection action that created two different, beautiful plays:

Plays like that require sharp execution, but they require smart coaching first.

Kiffin’s kept being his weird, entertaining self.

That’s included a whole bunch of tweets about the coaching search at Tennessee, where he’s still the only guy who looks like a winner.

It’s also included a literal Lane Train on campus in Boca Raton.

ALL ABOARD.... #LaneTrain http://pic.twitter.com/vjvfihaQj9

— FAU Football (@FAU_Football) November 2, 2017

He’s still extremely Kiffin, but the results are the results.

On the field, FAU went from an awful team with a lot of returning players to one of the best mid-majors in the country, with a vastly improved defense and one of the most enjoyable offenses in the sport. And because of Kiffin’s recruiting, the future looks even brighter.

Some athletic director at a Power 5 school is going to try to hire Kiffin again. That probably won’t be Tennessee, though the Vols’ athletic director who declined to pursue Kiffin is now out of a job for other reasons.

Whenever Kiffin’s name comes up next in a big coaching search, the job he did at FAU in 2017 will be as good a data point as any to argue it’s not a bad idea.

And now Kiffin wants Bama, his former employer.

.@Lane_Kiffin wants Bama? http://pic.twitter.com/zZ99a1vL8F

— Conference USA (@ConferenceUSA) December 2, 2017

Kiffin did just sign a new lengthy deal to remain in Boca, but if he keeps having seasons like this one, he’ll have a P5 job in no time, most likely.

[junker-town]

LOL, Lane Kiffin's FAU team really went for 2 while leading by 31 points

Get on the Lane Train, folks.

God bless you, Lane Kiffin. In the third quarter of Tuesday night’s game in the Boca Raton Bowl, Kiffin’s FAU team was running up the score against Akron, scoring a touchdown midway through the quarter to go up 34-3. Of course, with a lead so large, you’d expect Lane to kick an extra point there, right? NOPE. My dude Kiffin went for two and got it.

Yes, Lane was up 31 points and went for two and got it. Look, this isn’t all that surprising — it’s no secret that he likes to score, his team is averaging 40 points per game. Plus, he’s gone for it on fourth down twice tonight, so he’s not exactly a conservative play-caller. This is Kiffin’s style at FAU, and the school recently rewarded him with a new 10-year deal on Tuesday:

Kiffin’s FAU imported tons of blue-chips and stormed to a Conference USA title with one of the country’s most entertaining offenses. Every step of the way, he’s remained entirely himself (this is where one would usually say, “for better or for worse,” but if you’re into college football as entertainment, there’s not much of a “worse”), becoming college football Twitter’s single best personality.

The Lane Train rides again, apparently!

ALL ABOARD.... #LaneTrain http://pic.twitter.com/vjvfihaQj9

— FAU Football (@FAU_Football) November 2, 2017

With the eventual victory, FAU will have its first-ever 11-win season in school history, an accomplishment that is undoubtedly impressive, especially considering it’s Kiffin’s first year in Boca.

Stay golden, coach.

[junker-town]

Lane Kiffin’s reportedly just agreed to coach FAU through 2027, for what it’s worth

Just imagine him sticking around for this entire deal.

With one game remaining in the best season in FAU football history, some Lane Kiffin news:

Earlier this month, @Lane_Kiffin told me he was stoked about the future at FAU. Well, he's just agreed to a new 10-year deal with the Owls that runs through December 2027. FAU has won 9 in a row and plays Akron tonight in the Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl.

— Chris Low (@ClowESPN) December 19, 2017

SOURCE: #FAU & Lane Kiffin are finalizing a new 10-year deal.

— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) December 19, 2017

The former three-time head coach has pulled off likely his best job ever this year, taking the Owls from a streak of 3-9 seasons to their first-ever 10-win year, with a likely win over Akron at home in the Boca Raton Bowl still to go.

Though Kiffin’s name was hot during coaching carousel season — he openly teased Tennessee fans throughout — and there’s certainly reason to believe he would’ve jumped on a top Power 5 offer, he’s now set to remain at FAU in 2018 anyway, so why not tack some years on the deal?

Kiffin’s FAU imported tons of blue-chips and stormed to a Conference USA title with one of the country’s most entertaining offenses. Every step of the way, he’s remained entirely himself (this is where one would usually say, “for better or for worse,” but if you’re into college football as entertainment, there’s not much of a “worse”), becoming college football Twitter’s single best personality.

The Lane Train rides again, apparently!

ALL ABOARD.... #LaneTrain http://pic.twitter.com/vjvfihaQj9

— FAU Football (@FAU_Football) November 2, 2017

[junker-town]

FAU LITERALLY MADE A LANE KIFFIN TRAIN

All aboard.

This is certainly a thing:

ALL ABOARD.... #LaneTrain http://pic.twitter.com/vjvfihaQj9

— FAU Football (@FAU_Football) November 2, 2017

Yep, that's a real life Lane Kiffin Train at FAU. Watch Kiffin and @FAU_Football take on Marshall tonight at 6 PM ET on CBS Sports Network! http://pic.twitter.com/lt3iEHfQdw

— CBS Sports Network (@CBSSportsNet) November 3, 2017

Look at this: a makeshift train that transports happy students around the campus of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, with a cutout of Lane Kiffin’s face on the front of it, thus making A LITERAL LANE TRAIN.

An FAU spokeswoman said Kiffin’s head was also on the back of the train. The school’s cheerleaders are the smiling people in the red shirts, waving from the train. I asked about how the train came about, wondering if there was some sort of special occasion that brought the train about. It doesn’t appear there was. Rather, FAU’s marketing department did this just to do it, which, to me, makes the Lane Train even better.

Kiffin, FAU’s first-year head coach, is 10-3 this season and 8-0 in conference. The Owls have been putting up a bunch of points, and they won the league on an eight-game winning streak. That run got the team to a bowl game, and the holidays meant a special Lane Train.

When Christmas is around the corner but so is the Bowl game #lanetrain #cometothefaU @Lane_Kiffin http://pic.twitter.com/6MzE7z8KKG

— Elizabeth (@lizcheer15) December 13, 2017

Kiffin is one of college football’s, uh, unique personalities. “The Lane Train” has become common verbiage for the entire Lane Kiffin experience, which also includes very good offense, cryptic trolling tweets, and probably an acrimonious exit at some point.

This season, the Lane Train chugged through C-USA play, and now the actual Lane Train is chugging through Boca Raton. These seem like good times to be an Owl.

[junker-town]

Lane Kiffin’s C-USA title turnaround makes him a Coach of the Year candidate

Kiffin took over a 3-9 FAU team and just won Conference USA in his first season.

The FAU Owls are the champions of Conference USA. They beat North Texas in the league title game on Saturday, 41-17, completing a transition from 3-9 in 2016 to 10-3 and atop the C-USA heap in Lane Kiffin’s first season as head coach.

Kiffin’s had an exceptionally winding career for someone who’s still just 42. He’s done good coaching jobs (like during USC and Alabama offensive coordinator stints) and bad ones (like as Raiders and USC head coach) and had uncomfortably dramatic exits from the last four jobs he’s had. What Kiffin did this year is his best coaching feat yet.

Consider how lousy FAU was before Kiffin’s arrival.

The Owls were 3-9 in each of the last three years under Charlie Partridge.

Their best record in four C-USA seasons was 6-6 in 2013.

The program had made two bowls in its brief history (as an FBS team since 2004, and only as a football program at all since 2001). They’d won six or more games two other times, though they didn’t make bowls for various reasons.

The 2016 team was really, really bad. The offense scored 26 points per game (80th in the country), and the defense gave up 40 (123rd out of 128 teams).

Now consider what’s happened since Kiffin showed up.

Kiffin has two structural advantages. One is that almost 2016’s entire team returned, with FAU ranking fourth nationally in returning production. The other is that there’s plenty of talent in South Florida, which should be a playground for a good recruiter.

He turned FAU into a destination for junior college transfers, including four who appeared on the Netflix show Last Chance U. The list of transfer acquisitions includes a bunch of former four-stars, and many of them weren’t even eligible this year.

The defense shaved 15 points per game off its average, rising to 50th in the country entering the weekend. And the offense was a typically exciting Kiffin outfit.

In the title game win against UNT, Kiffin’s offense was scheming and stunting. Look at this misdirection action that created two different, beautiful plays:

Plays like that require sharp execution, but they require smart coaching first.

Kiffin’s kept being his weird, entertaining self.

That’s included a whole bunch of tweets about the coaching search at Tennessee, where he’s still the only guy who looks like a winner.

It’s also included a literal Lane Train on campus in Boca Raton.

ALL ABOARD.... #LaneTrain http://pic.twitter.com/vjvfihaQj9

— FAU Football (@FAU_Football) November 2, 2017

He’s still extremely Kiffin, but the results are the results.

On the field, FAU went from an awful team with a lot of returning players to one of the best mid-majors in the country, with a vastly improved defense and one of the most enjoyable offenses in the sport. And because of Kiffin’s recruiting, the future looks even brighter.

Some athletic director at a Power 5 school is going to try to hire Kiffin again. That probably won’t be Tennessee, though the Vols athletic director who declined to pursue Kiffin is now out of a job for other reasons.

Whenever Kiffin’s name comes up next in a big coaching search, the job he did at FAU in 2017 will be as good a data point as any to argue it’s not a bad idea.

[junker-town]

FAU LITERALLY MADE A LANE KIFFIN TRAIN

All aboard.

This is certainly a thing:

ALL ABOARD.... #LaneTrain http://pic.twitter.com/vjvfihaQj9

— FAU Football (@FAU_Football) November 2, 2017

What this looks like to me: a makeshift train that transports happy students around the campus of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, with a cutout of Lane Kiffin’s face on the front of it, thus making A LITERAL LANE TRAIN.

Kiffin, FAU’s first-year head coach, is 5-3 this season and 4-0 in conference. The Owls have been putting up a bunch of points, and they’re favorites in Conference USA’s East division. You can now presumably literally ride the Lane Train to watch the Owls play.