Florida High School Coach Is Shutting Lane Kiffin Out

by Larry Leo

January 31, 20175 Comments

Miami-Booker T. Washington head coach will not help Lane Kiffin recruit any of their players.

According to FAU Owl Access, Miami-Booker T. Washington head coach Tim Harris is not too pleased with how FAU new head coach Lane Kiffin handled one of their players, so he's won't help him recruit any of their players. Per FAU Owl Access...

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Miami-Booker T. Washington coach Tim “Ice” Harris told Kiffin during a phone call in early January that he wouldn’t discuss any other Tornadoes players until the Owls clarified what they planned to do with linebacker Isaac Readon.

As a result, Harris said, he hasn’t discussed any of his players with the new FAU regime since the coaching change.

Kiffin “was calling about another kid and then he said they hadn’t evaluated (Readon) yet and they didn’t know if they were going to get him or not,” Harris said.

A well-respected coach who’s won three state titles, including the high school national title at Booker T. Washington in 2013, Harris is currently in his third stint as the Tornadoes coach. He didn’t like Kiffin’s answer.

(CollegeSpun)

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The Torch•87 months

"so he's won't help him recruit any of their players" Or help with their english

pellietigersaint•87 months

These entitled HS coaches need to step the "f" out of the way and let some of these kids and their families decide for themselves. The mere fact that this coach has a known nickname tells me enough to know he's a meddling ahole. Demanding for a coach to evaluate a player they have no interest in just to gain access to another is shady AF. I'm no kiffin fan but this HS coach sounds like a jerk off

AwesomeSauce•87 months

It sounds like the previous regime had extended this kid an offer and he committed, and the coach just wanted to hear that Kiffin was still going to honor the commitment. IMO Kiffin should have honored the commitment to stay in the goodwill of the area coaches. You can win a lot of games in CUSA with just the second and third tier guys from Miami.

OldSchoolHorn•87 months

nope. happens all the time and should. If a coach/program is shady and acting in ways that are damaging to his student athletes, the coach has the responsibility to protect his current and future players. The player and family can chose to communicate if they want, but the coach has the obligation to protect kids if he has knowlesdge of coaches with potentially bad intentions. In short, one of the kids on his team was committed to FAU prior to the coaching change. Kiffin and FAU were not being forthright on the kids scholarship offer (were they going to honor it or not?). With national signing day looming the kid needed to know if Kiffin was going to honor it or not. Kiffin slow played the kid to see if he could upgrade with another player he liked better. Kiffin had the balls to call the coach and ask about another one of his kids. Coach did his job and protected his guy.. asked Kiffin for status on the existing committed recruit. Kiffin did what Kiffin does.. lied and acted like a scum bag. Coach told FAU/Kiffin to go fuk themselves and stay away from his school... as he should.

Deuces•87 months

Is he shutting him out from the cheerleading team as well?

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