Take Two: Will Kiffin get another shot at a Power Five school?

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Might Lane Kiffin be back in big-time college football soon?

The first-year Florida Atlantic coach has done an admirable job in his first season in Boca Raton, amassing a 5-3 record with two of those losses coming to Navy and Wisconsin in the first two weeks of the season.

The Owls are currently on a four-game winning streak, beating Middle Tennessee, Old Dominion, North Texas and Western Kentucky comfortably.

Alongside offensive coordinator Kendal Briles (which was a controversial hire, based on what happened during his father’s coaching stint at Baylor), FAU is averaging nearly 40 points per game. Which begs the question: Will a Power Five program take another shot on Kiffin, after less-than-desirable coaching performances with the Oakland Raiders and then at Tennessee and USC? The Twitter-friendly coach who admitted on Thursday that he loves to troll Tennessee more than any other fan base did restore his reputation somewhat during a stretch as Alabama’s offensive coordinator.

This offseason, heads could roll with the possibility of at least half of the SEC positions opening up, along with other jobs scattered across the Power Five landscape.

Does any athletics director take a chance on Kiffin? Has he proven himself enough yet through his time at Alabama and now FAU to make anyone confident enough he wouldn’t be a disaster at a school that needs to rebuild?

“I don't think he's going to have Power Five offers knocking on his door this offseason, but he very well could after next year. With Kiffin's track record, ADs are going to want to see him sustain some level of success over multiple years. Think about it: If you put your neck out to hire a polarizing figure like Kiffin and it fails, you're going to take some serious blow-back and possibly find your job in jeopardy.

Whatever you think of Kiffin the coach, hiring him is a bit of risk from a perception standpoint. He and Briles could land at a Power Five school, but it's going to take two or maybe even three years of success for that to take place.”

“Someone eventually will. I don’t know if they’ll take Briles, but someone will eventually take Kiffin. It won’t be a big-time program. It will probably be a middling Power Five program. I don’t think this year. Maybe when some of those West Coast jobs start opening up he might get a look, but it will probably be a few years at FAU before anybody takes him seriously.

If you’re going to put money into a coach, you want to make sure he’s not crazy (on social media). I don’t think it will kill him if he keeps showing he can put up offensive numbers and keeps showing he can win football games. There are some coaches currently in college football who aren’t exactly the most politically correct people. But it doesn’t help him, let’s put it that way. A quiet Lane Kiffin putting up numbers would be much better than a trolling Lane Kiffin.”