It's a tangible shift, seeing a coach famed for youth and immaturity emphasize the generation gap between himself and his players. And it's a shift Kiffin wants you to notice. After flameout-filled stops as head coach of the Oakland Raiders, Tennessee Volunteers and USC Trojans, followed by a stint in football's finishing school calling plays for Alabama, he'd very much like for you to think he is, at 42, at last an adult. So would his bosses in Boca Raton, Florida, in the FBS backwater of Conference USA.
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