Lincoln Riley to USC

I hope Covid allows me to see your vision.

 

It will do that or kill you. It’s your choice as to which is worse.

 

Well, Jon, thankfully there's climate change. Midwest already getting all the insufferable white west coast "professional independent journalist" refugees whenever Oregon starts on fire, have to imagine rising sea levels in the gulf region will return Nebraska to its rightful place atop the throne

 

Tim TBOW

 

I've never seen a group this mad about losing what they swear is a bad coach

 

#Florida State Seminoles

 

#Oregon Ducks

 

cvnts

 

USC will get better talent than he had at Oklahoma

 

He had the number 1 recruit in the country at OU, but ok

 

It's ok, let it out

 

OU never had higher than the #6 class during Riley's tenure. The difference between that and what should hopefully be consistent top 5 classes at USC is the difference between making the CFP and being a legit contender for the NC

 

An what did that recruiting class rank?

 

you realize I’m making fun of them right

 

Idk, guy who is both a Duke and USC fan, why don't you tell me

 

I didn't haha, but in that case...cheers!

 

- Willie Taggart
- Scott Frost
- Mario Cristobal (still no coordinators 8 weeks into the job)

 

never said y’all weren’t right

 

It's debatable. SC is notorious for high end recruits with very thin classes. So any busts and injuries they suffer with depth. They have the pick of the litter CA kid but also insane prima donnas. A better recruiter can do wonders in SC.

 

I think there are a lot of people that truly feel we are better off now. Riley was a great OC, and a very good recruiter. Not sure he was such a great head coach. Venables is a great coordinator and very good recruiter. Time will tell if he’s much of a head coach. I get people trying to minimize the loss of your head coach. Rejection sucks! We all deal with it in our own way.

 

USC was notorious for that under terrible coaches. This is the factor that makes predicting future performance hard for the program - you can't really predict how the team will do in the future when it has a real AD for the first time ever and a real coach for the first time in over a decade. Maybe Riley makes the same mistakes, but that seems less likely to me

 

I'm guessing you don't have near the same success without him

 

We were good (Not great) before him, we'll be good (Not great) after him.

 

Making the playoffs more often than not is pretty fucking good

 

Fair, and I don't see us there within the next 4 years.

 

This is not repeatable so long as Saban is at Alabama. That being said, I still have nightmares about 55-19. They had some of the best teams of all time during that run.

 

Ah, then I agree 100%. Although there's a thread on this board dedicated to asking the question if Lincoln Riley is, in fact, a bad coach so hopefully they get it right with the next hire and then sky's the limit.

 

I just want to see a staff that can develop players.

 

You should've hired a different Defensive staff, then.

 

Yeah, I guess I should have. My bad.

 

won't believe it unless Riley fires Grinch in favor of Rex Ryan

 

No kink shaming

 

I couldn't imagine an easier decision

 

State of the state: it's bad

 

I think about making a similar move nearly every day

 

We're full.