USC football: Lane Kiffin gets verbal commitment from 13-year-old quarterback David Sills

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Feb. 4, 2010 8:58 PM PT

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Remember Lane Kiffin’s introductory news conference at USC?

Back then, oh, less than a month ago, he said, ‘We don’t need to go out and grab attention because we have it.’

Kiffin created a stir Thursday when he offered a scholarship to and accepted a verbal commitment from quarterback David Sills, a 13-year-old seventh-grader from Delaware.

We’ll have more later at latimes.com/sports. In the meantime, you can see him in action on the video attached below.

-- Gary Klein

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Gary Klein

Gary Klein covers the Los Angeles Rams for the Los Angeles Times. Before that, he covered USC’s football program and athletic department. He began working for The Times in the San Fernando Valley edition and has reported on high school, college and pro sports. He grew up in Southern California and graduated from Cal State Northridge.