He was 15 minutes late. It was midmorning, yet he looked like he'd just climbed out of bed.
Lane Kiffin was the last Alabama representative to stroll into the College Football Playoff national championship media day Saturday, and he did so in all his Kiffinesque glory. There was the rumpled hair, the baggy sweats, the beard stubble and, of course, that mischievous glint.
"This is the third time I been here," he said of the Phoenix area. "The last time I was fired at four o'clock in the morning. Before that, I was here for USC's NCAA hearing.