Lincoln Riley

Pft great qb recruiter? Like spencer rattler who got benched immediately?

Attracts talent so he looks good by default but upon closer examination it's obvious that he hinders the development of a lot of that talent. And yes, his starting qb at the beginning of the year was conteding to be a top draft pick and has now fallen out of the draft and forced to transfer. The defense is pesestrian as usual as the offense is underwhelming. They playoff committee has had enough of Oklahoma getting crushed in the playoff as their ranking despite a great W-L record would indicate.

Yeah, but he's getting bank to live in LA, rather than Oklahoma. Nothing wrong with that.

If I had the choice, Norman Oklahoma or Santa Monica or Manhattan Beach....I never did like tornados.

core value wrote:

Very good offensive coach. Zero ability to execute any real defense. Hot headed. Huge ego. Great QB recruiter. Overrated overall which is fitting going to USC and the pac 12.

He knew he was going to get crushed in the SEC. Moving to the weakest conference is the best move for him.

Definitely the cutest head coach in college football 😍😘🥰😘😍.

as a matter of fact wrote:

core value wrote:

Very good offensive coach. Zero ability to execute any real defense. Hot headed. Huge ego. Great QB recruiter. Overrated overall which is fitting going to USC and the pac 12.

He knew he was going to get crushed in the SEC. Moving to the weakest conference is the best move for him.

Most likely the truth here. Thanks.

core value wrote:

Very good offensive coach. Zero ability to execute any real defense. Hot headed. Huge ego. Great QB recruiter. Overrated overall which is fitting going to USC and the pac 12.

I get the vibe that he's going to have a harder time at SC than people think. Inheriting a program that's already elite is different than building one from the ground up. Because he's at SC, recruiting will be easy along with his reputation, but I wonder how much drive he'll have now that he's making a reported $12 million a year.

stan the corgi wrote:

If I had the choice, Norman Oklahoma or Santa Monica or Manhattan Beach....I never did like tornados.

I lived in Oklajoma City for a few months when I got out of college. I loved it. Everyone there was apologizing it for not being Dallas (where I'm from). I was like, "Why? I can drive on a 10 lane highway during rushhour at 75 mph and everything is very cheap. You have great bars, restaurants and movie theatres like any big city - just not as many of them." Hell they now even have an NBA team.

LA is nice if you are super rich.

All of that being said, it's a smart move for the following reasons.

1) Every coach should move at least every 10 y ears if they are only looking out for themselves. Things get stale - the fans take you for granted, a new AD who didn't hire you comes in and wants to make a name for himself, etc.

2) OU is never going to get the top top top top talent without paying for it. USC might. In the Big 12, he was going to finish 2nd (ok maybe 3rd) on a bad year. In the SEC, he might be 8th. In the Pac 12, it's like the Big 12 he's basically guaranteed 2nd or better every year and the recruiting is easy as hell. Plus he gets to live in LA and has daughters who and a wife who sound like they are into that.

couch surfer dude wrote:

but I wonder how much drive he'll have now that he's making a reported $12 million a year.

I never get this argument. What does 12 million give you that 7.5 million doesn't? I think he actually left as he is ambitious and has drive. He could see he was going to slip at OU.

As I said in the previous post, its next to impossible to get the nation's #1 recruiting class at OU. Why would kids go there over say USC? It reminds me of my time at Cornell. It's next to impossible to outrecruit Princeton/Harvard.

Now the recruiting is easy as hell. He doesn't need to live his home state unless it's for an NFL 1st rounder.

I'm agreeing with Rojo on this one.

Riley is 38, an offensive guru, has had multiple Heisman trophy winners and has developed a good number of players to get drafted in the NFL. He was already at top 5 level recruiter and was getting kids to come to freaking Norman Oklahoma. And guess where he was heavily recruiting before..yup, Socal.

He's already had the top QB in the 2023 class de-,committ from Oklahoma and committ to him at USC.

He will have USC in the playoff in no more than 3 years. If I'm wrong, I'll send Rojo $200 and he can give it away as a gift card to Running Warehouse to someone on the boards. It's going to be the same effect that Urbam Meyer going to Ohio State had. My guess is probably 9-3 next year and then undefeated in regular season in 2023.

If the Miami job opens up and I'm Mario Cristobal (thei Oregon HC), I am on the first flight out of Eugene. You've already been relegated to #2 status in the Pac-12 with Riley going to USC.

Riley’s compensation package is pretty sweet, specifically the jet!

- $110 million

- USC buying both his homes in Norman for $500,000 over asking ($1 million bonus)

- Buying a $6 million home in LA for him

- Unlimited use of the private jet 24/7 for family