Lincoln Riley forged tight bonds throughout his career that helped him quickly convince key leaders to join his USC coaching and support staff.
From the time he was introduced as USC’s football coach, Lincoln Riley has made it clear that he has a plan to quickly make the Trojans a power again.For Manning, the choice to come to USC seemed a little unnatural. As a linebacker at Michigan, he had lost to the Trojans in the 2004 Rose Bowl. As an assistant coach, he had battled against USC at Washington State andIt’s been a short amount of time, but he already feels he had a lot of things wrong about USC.
Oklahoma defensive coordinator Alex Grinch before the start of a game against Tulane on Sept. 4, 2021, in Norman, Okla. Grinch will be USC’s new defensive coordinator. When Henson saw that Oklahoma offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh was not coming with Riley, he reached out to Grinch to make his interest known.
“Talk to Coach Riley for five minutes and you want to do everything he does,” Nua said. “Not saying it was easy to leave Michigan. But Coach Riley and USC made it easy.”