I'm going that route, actually.
They claimed they had proof that Alabama and others were contacting Baxter. When asked about the proof, they said, "Well, Baxter lost his phone."
You really don't see the obvious whiney-baby bullshit in that?
Baxter went to them with the five schools that where contacting him. So, there's no whiney-baby bullshit coming from Coach Kiffin.
Could be one of five things:
1). The other schools really did contact him, but Baxter didn't want to get those five Universities in trouble with the NCAA, especially with one of those schools already under NCAA probation (SPuat), so he said that he lost his phone.
2). No schools contacted him but as Chop stated he could've just been frustrated, but when asked for his phone he realized that they wanted to see his phone records and since no schools actually contacted him, there wouldn't be any records of them doing so, so he said that he lost his phone.
3). The other schools really did contact him and he really did lose his phone
4). Boosters contacted him, representing their University. Realizing that this would be a Major Violation towards those schools that had boosters contacting him, he didn't want to get involved with all that mess, so he had to make it up that he lost his phone since they would've looked back at the numbers and realized that it didn't come from the Coaches but from, maybe, a known booster/fan.
5). Number 4 really did happen but he really did lose his phone.
One thing is for sure though, we'll definitely get to the bottom of it, we just have to wait until Coach Kiffin talks about it, because he always shoots straight and never pulls any punches....