Lane Kiffin likes life in Boca Raton, Florida.

That much is true after the third-year head coach of Florida Atlantic responded to a tweet from an Arkansas fan on Twitter pleading for Razorbacks athletic director Hunter Yurachek to hire Kiffin as head coach.

Kiffin, who coached in SEC most recently as the offensive coordinator at Alabama from 2014-16, thanked the fan for the love but assumed the person had "never been to" Boca Raton.

Fayetteville, Arkansas, is certainly not South Florida.

It is, however, an SEC job which Kiffin is open to.

Kiffin, who was the head coach at Tennessee in 2009 before bolting for USC from 2010-13, said Oct. 22 on SEC Network's "The Paul Finebaum Show" that he would not rule out a return to the SEC.

His current situation, though, makes him selective.

"I'm really happy here, Paul, and all coaches say that, but you know I'm not one to just give coach speak," Kiffin said. "As you get older, I think you value different things. And so when you're younger, a lot of times you're chasing money and titles how big is the job? and all those things.

"So I'm very happy here. I think we've gotten something pretty neat going on here with ... 24 wins or something like that in three seasons and they had (three) three-win seasons before (from 2014-16).

"So a lot of really good young players, so I'm very happy here and it's a great place to live. As you get older, you kind of appreciate where you live, too."

After an 0-2 start, the Owls are 7-3 overall and 5-1 in C-USA play, winning six of their past seven games as they are tied for the conference's East Division with Marshall (7-3, 5-1), the only loss over the recent stretch.

Kiffin followed 2017's breakout campaign at 11-3 with 2018's step back, going 5-7, but has since rebounded.

Off 2017's success, Kiffin's contract extension came June 21, 2018, with a 10-year renegotiation that runs through 2027. In addition to Kiffin's base salary of $950,000 annually, he has a $2 million buyout, which drops to $1.5 millions after the 2019 season and $1 million following the 2020 campaign.

Arkansas fired second-year head coach Chad Morris last Sunday after he went 4-18 overall and 0-14 in SEC play, capped by Nov. 9's 45-19 home loss to Western Kentucky, and still owes him his buyout of more than $10 million.

Yurachek, however, said last Monday that the Razorbacks were "fully committed to getting the best person" and "desperately want our football program to be great again."

"No one could rule that out," Kiffin said. "But ... as you go through things and places, you've got to (have) the right leadership and people who are dedicated to do the things to win national championships. ... I'm not going to take some job just (because) you make some more money or in a bigger conference. It's got to be someone with people that want to win national championships."

Kiffin went 7-6 overall and 4-4 in SEC play as Tennessee's head coach, before he bolted for his four-year stint at the helm for USC. With the Trojans, Kiffin went 28-15 overall and 17-12 in Pac-12 play.

Alabama scooped him up for three seasons as the Tide went 40-4 with a trip to the College Football Playoff in each year, but longtime head coach Nick Saban cut ties with Kiffin after the 2016 campaign.

Saban chose to go in a different direction with Alabama's offense after the Tide, who won the 2015 CFB Playoff national championship, fell in the 2016 final.

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