{"id":11340,"date":"2025-02-17T18:13:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T00:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=11340"},"modified":"2025-02-17T18:13:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T00:13:16","slug":"lincoln-riley-in-a-free-fall-at-usc-move-a-big-mistake-both-ou-and-usc-lose-as-of-this-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=11340","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Riley in a free fall at USC? Move a big mistake………Both OU and USC lose as of this coach….."},"content":{"rendered":"

Lincoln, where are your great players today at USC?<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

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As I viewed various YouTube videos, today my attention focused on Baker Mayfield’s Heisman season in Norman, as the Sooners had a very successful season, losing to Georgia in the National Semi-Final in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.\u00a0 The double overtime loss to the Bulldogs was a heartbreaker for Sooner Nation, as the loss ended Lincoln Riley’s first year as the head coach at Oklahoma. And it was a wonderful year, 2017,\u00a0 for Sooner football and it’s rookie coach.\u00a0 Riley had it going in 2017, and despite the loss in the Rose Bowl, he continued to win at OU, going 12-2, 12-2, 9-2, and 10-2 the next four years.\u00a0 His overall record at OU was 55-10 with three Big 12 titles.\u00a0 Riley got the big need for money, an avoidance of having to survive in the coming Southeastern Conference on the horizon, and the preverbal “the grass is greener……”\u00a0 Riley moved on to the University of Southern Cal for the reasons above, and in my opinion, it was the biggest mistake any Sooner head coach has ever made.\u00a0 Riley had it all and in just a short three years, he has nothing of the sort in Los Angeles.\u00a0 He is 26-14 in LA, and the hot seat is getting hotter one of the newest members of the Big Ten is burning his ass.\u00a0 Lincoln Riley would not have lost 14 game at OU if he had stayed.\u00a0 Riley messed up and must be said that USC is in no better a position now than when he came to the West coast.\u00a0 The Trojans play in a tough conference, the schedule is not easy, and it now seems that the offense continues to lead a team that a defense is not that great.\u00a0 USC does not draw the football attendance like OU, they are not the talk of the town sports wise in LA, which is dominated by professional sports, and the NIL monies are not much better than any B10 or SEC school as the donors are not happy with Riley’s results the past three years.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

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The Sooners were loaded with talent in 2017. Previous head coach Bob Stoops had hired Riley in the summer of 2015, as the offensive coordinator, and during the first two years at OU, Stoops and Riley help stockpile for Riley’s first year in 2017 as Stoops retired in June of 2017.\u00a0 Lincoln was personally chosen, by Stoops, as his successor as the two years previous grooming him to follow his footsteps as the head coach.\u00a0 OU was 22-4 in those two years with Riley the offensive coordinator and two Big 12 Championships.\u00a0 Stoops believed that Riley, the offensive coordinator at East Caroline University before coming to OU to do the same, was a top offensive play caller and the best quarterback coach in the country.\u00a0 Stoop knew that having a top-tier offensive guru would allow OU to continue to win at the highest level and Riley was the man.\u00a0 The two years as the top\u00a0 offensive assistant was all Stoops needed to recommend him to take the helm for the program.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

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Riley’s overall look is not as positive as it was just after his move.\u00a0 He is not getting the numerous All-American players that he was able to put to the test in Norman, and the fans are not packing out the LA Coliseum.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

As I viewed Baker Mayfield pass to CeeDee Lamb and Mark Andrews in 2017, USC does not have these great players at USC. And his OU transfer he took to LA, abet a Heisman winner, has gone off to Chicago.\u00a0 Riley needs to find talent, and it seems to harder for him at USC than at Oklahoma.\u00a0 Am I right or am I right?<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

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