Lane Kiffin's phone call is 14 minutes late. When it finally arrives, an Alabama area code flashes across the screen—a remnant from his former life.
It's late June, and he's calling from Los Angeles, where he was once fired on an airport tarmac after a football game.
"I've been here four days and haven't stopped for one picture or autograph yet, and I was head coach at USC," says Kiffin, now in his second season as head coach at Florida Atlantic University. "In Alabama, where I wasn't even a head coach, I'd have a hundred by the time I made it out of the airport.