FAU head coach Lane Kiffin channeled his inner-James Franklin when speaking with CBS Sports recently.

In May of 2012, Franklin — then the coach at Vanderbilt — made headlines for his comments about assistant coaches and their wives.

“I’ve been saying it for a long time, I will not hire an assistant coach until I’ve seen his wife,” Franklin said during a radio interview with Nashville’s 104.5 FM The Zone. “If she looks the part, and she’s a D-I recruit, then you got a chance to get hired. That’s part of the deal.

“There’s a very strong correlation between having the confidence, going up and talking to a woman, and being quick on your feet and having some personality and confidence and being fun and articulate, than it is walking into a high school and recruiting a kid and selling him.”

After receiving some backlash, Franklin then responded via Twitter with multiple tweets.

CBS Sports did an interesting story on FAU’s new prodigy OC Charlie Weis Jr. Weis Jr. is just 24 years-old, but he’s grown up in football basically his entire life with his father, Charlie Weis Sr. No doubt Weis Jr. has a big on-the-field coaching career in front of him, but he’s also a top notch recruiter. And Kiffin knew that from the get-go.

“He had all A’s in every single thing he’s ever done,” Kiffin said. “Normally those kids can’t socialize. That’s not him at all.

“He’s got a beautiful wife. How’d Charlie get her? I look at assistant coaches’ wives. It tells me if they are good recruiters or not.”

Never change, Lane.