Around the Dog Park: Lane Kiffin objects Art Briles connection to FAU

General G5

• Bill Connelly has an oral history of how Boise State became Boise State.
• Mountain West will have six games aired on Facebook Live this year, joining C-USA and the Sun Belt in going with social media services to stream games.

Conference USA

• Lane Kiffin says Art Briles has had little to no connection with FAU this offseason. As you know, Art’s son, Kendall Brilles, is the offensive coordinator at FAU. My friend Sway sums up how I feel about this non-story...

• Old Dominion is ponying up some money to enhance faculty pay, and scholarships.
• Here’s a cool profile on Rice’s new starting quarterback Sam Glaesmann.
• A few things to look out for when Glaesmann leads the Owls to play Stanford this Saturday.

Sun Belt

• Is it just me, or are we starting to see a trend of G5 schools getting the big boys to come to their stadium.