Lane Kiffin Says He Wants to Be Like Jim Harbaugh, Talks Satellite Camps

First-year Florida Atlantic head coach Lane Kiffin hosted a satellite camp on campus Monday and had some fun with reporters in the process.

"We aspire to be like Jim Harbaugh," the coach said of the Michigan coach who famously undertook a busy satellite camp schedule in the past, via Rachel Lenzi of Land of 10. "No, seriously, he does a great job. He gets everywhere, and they [Michigan] have the resources to do that."

ESPN.com shared a video clip of some of Kiffin's comments:

Lenzi noted coaches from Michigan, Tennessee, Oregon, Auburn and Arkansas were all at the camp, and Kiffin said members of the Wolverines' coaching staff reached out to Florida Atlantic's staff about attending.

The NCAA previously restricted Division I programs to a mere 10 June days of satellite camps, and Michigan coaches have attended camps in Ohio, Florida, Maryland and Georgia thus far this year, per Lenzi.

There is a satellite-camp connection between Kiffin and Harbaugh. Alabama head coach Nick Saban criticized the practice when Kiffin was the Crimson Tide's offensive coordinator, prompting this response from Harbaugh:

Kiffin was surely harkening back to the exchange between the two schools when he joked Monday, but aspiring to be like Harbaugh isn't a bad plan. Michigan went 10-3 in each of the last two years under the coach and was in the thick of the College Football Playoff race for most of the 2016 campaign.

Florida Atlantic is coming off three straight 3-9 campaigns, meaning Kiffin is facing a daunting challenge.