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Lane Kiffin is willing to go to great lengths to motivate his team to face one of its toughest opponents of the year on Friday — even if it means making up quotes from opposing players.With FAU preparing to take on UCF, Kiffin printed out a quote from Knights defensive back Nevelle Clarke and hung it in the weight room. The comment makes it seem like Clarke predicted he is going to get the best of star running back Devin Singletary. The problem? Well, there are actually two of them. For starters, Kiffin misspelled Clarke’s last name. But more importantly, Clarke never said anything about stopping Singletary in his tracks. The quote likely stems from an article in the Orlando Sentinel, in which author Brian Murphy wrote that Clarke is “looking forward to that challenge and stopping Conference’s USA’s reigning Most Valuable Player dead in his tracks.” The only actual quote he attributed to Clarke, however, was Clarke calling Singletary a “pretty good back.”We know Kiffin has a lot of respect for No. 16-ranked U
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