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USC-UCLA: Lincoln Riley Has Lost It

A new low for Lincoln Riley today.

He showed up for this game as if it were Washington State. He didn’t look like he cared. His team went through the motions. The Coliseum was eerily quiet because the fans waited for something to happen that never did.

I’ve seen plenty of unprepared USC football teams but this was one of the worst. Riley called a horrible game with conservative passes and a complete lack of a running game.

He also tolerated Caleb Williams throwing sidearm passes all day, which didn’t work.

USC rushed for 3 yards. That’s right, 3 yards!

Can we do something about the lack of physicality? Can we replace the strength coaches? It’s not just Alex Grinch. What was the offensive line doing? It couldn’t run block or protect Williams.

The defense had the benefit of facing an ordinary UCLA offense. But they still couldn’t cover anyone and let the Bruins rush for 199 yards.

But let’s get back to Riley. He had no answers today but he didn’t seem to try to offer any.

He needs to agree to a major overhaul of the program or get out. Frankly, I wouldn’t mind if he left now. I’m tired of his aloof, holier-than-thou, I know-more-than-you routine.

Riley showed up for the Crosstown Rivalry like it was the Sun Bowl. And to him, it probably was. Please exit, stage right!

56 thoughts on “USC-UCLA: Lincoln Riley Has Lost It”

  1. What a cluster f*ck.

    Pains me to say this, but the village idiot at Georgia Southern might have done more today than Riley with the same team.

    The O-line is incompetent. The D is incompetent. This will take some time to fix, and I doubt Riley is the guy to do it.

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      2. Jen Cohen will have to hold Lincoln Riley’s hand when hiring a new defensive coordinator, otherwise the team will end up with another Alex Grinch

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      3. I’m so happy you guys at USC coach poached Stinking Lincoln Riley from OU, cuz he is a fraud . The only reason he was successful at OU was due to Bob Stoops who left him with Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray. Then he got lucky and got Hurts from the Portal. His last year at OU was a disgrace. So thanks Trojans alumni but it cost you way too much money. HaHa

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      4. Jen Cohen needs to call LRs bluff. Force him to make the proper changes to help the team get better or resign if you can’t handle orders. That simple.

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    3. Like almost everyone I bought the coolaid and didn’t vet his body of work. He can’t beat a quality opponent. Maybe it’s too early to tell but I don’t think you’ll ever get to the college football playoffs. He is a fraud. The big question now is who is responsible for hiring him.

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  2. What strikes me about this program is that USC has gotten worse at the end of both seasons, last year and this year.

    What other team has gotten much worse over the course of the season? Colorado. Maybe both of them have crappy coaching.

    Good coaching makes teams better over the season and USC devolves.

    Caleb Williams not only was a great player, but he attracted other players to the team. Now how can Riley get players to buy into his team?

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  3. The refs fuct us. We should’ve won this game but for bad officiating.

    I’m glad Lincoln will be leading us into the B1G, if we had B1G refs this year we’d be in the playoffs.

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    2. Are you related to Riley? Why makes excuses for a coach who was supposed to get us a national championship but instead continued to trivialize the program?

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    3. You sound like a fucin idiot. Go away you fucin clown. UCLA still sucks. And will never win a rose bowl or a natty. Go away you fucin loser. Facts you can’t handle. Scoreboard your ass.

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  4. Riley has proven to be an incompetent head coach. Where is his national championship resume…oh that’s right he has none. This year’s team is on the same level as a Clay Helton team. He has been proven to be an imposter. USC would be wise to cut ties with him now. I would hate to imagine next year’s team in the Big 10 with no Caleb. Don’t make the same mistake as made with Grinch.

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  8. Getting Clay results without the light at the end of the tunnel, which was it was only a matter of time before he got the axe. We’re a good 5 years away before a buyout is even in the realm of possibility. 5 years of getting destroyed in the Big. 4 win, maybe some 2 or 3 win years. And it’s not like when we were a Petey away from recovering from a Hackett era. The game has changed and you must be a winning brand to keep competing, and it’s only going to be more so in the years to come. This might be the most dire time in the history of the program.

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    1. Why if A&M can show a national championship winner the door in Jimbo Fisher. USC can do the same with LR.. Stop it with the excuses.

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    2. 2-3 wins a year yeah right. In the big 10 which is only top heavy with Michigan and Ohio st. Penn State has no offense and neither does Iowa.

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  9. USC fails yet again at the end of the season-against their crosstown rival. The whole PAC12 has figured out Riley. I watched the first 10 minutes of the game-then shut it off. It’s not worth it anymore.

    I DO have to say that the rankings during the season are SHIT. Ponder this: The Arizona Wildcat team that USC was supposed to dominate- but barely beat…Killed UTAH yesterday. So maybe Arizona was better than people thought?

    Anyways…I don’t care what bowl USC goes to-it doesn’t make any difference. After enduring the years of subpar performance from a once dominant team-I can find better things to do with my time than wasting it on this dumpster fire of a program. It’s always going to be more of the same.

    #EffoffRileyYouSuck
    #FightOnHasNoFightLeft

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  10. (Aside– Football Betting Contest)
    1000 on Washington over Oregon St (won)
    Balance 36,000

    Season’s over, let the negative guys do the talking,
    there is nothing further to say

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    1. You’re the biggest ra rah on here. Now you want to go away. Bye Felicia. We don’t need you next year either. Stay away homer. Talking all that shyt during The season being delusional.

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  12. It was hilarious hearing him say at the post game press conference that the season started well.

    No, it didn’t!! You were playing sub par teams and in 2 or 3 them, you were only a couple of plays away from losing!! Everyone knew the second half of our schedule would tell us where truly stood, in the grand scheme of things!!!!

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    2. You senile sack of shit… From a win/loss perspective it was “well”…. Your football IQ is beyond pathetic…. Quit being a pest… Go find something productive to do…. Start with the cloud hovering above the outhouse

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      1. Says the biggest fucin delusional pest on here. Go kick your sister in the chin so she can circumcise you. You fucin POS delusional puke. Can’t stand you and your immature antics. The village idiot is you and many have told you on this site. But you come here seeking attention like a bitch ass.

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      2. you limp-dick mental midget, no one is holding a gun to your head forcing you to read my comments…MY SUGGESTION IS DON’T READ MY FUCKING POSTS AND YOU WON’T GET TRIGGERED…SIMPLE STUFF, DIPSHIT…..NOW GO FUCK YOURSELF….

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      3. You proved you are an immature troll by using the word triggered. What a bitch ass clown. Take your fantasies somewhere else you fucin twit. I can read when ever I want and call your bitch ass out.

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      4. go fuck yourself old man…..this blog is a clown show, you triggered sack of shit….zero football IQ….

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    3. Says the Village Idiot. LMAO

      She just loves to bitch & moan. Tells us all what a miserable life she leads.

      Get help. So many have suggested it. Quit lying and claiming that was said about me.

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      2. I hear you So Cal the troll needs serious help. Nothing but a delusional hypocrite on here with his immature antics. He’s the village idiot on this site and his comments prove it.

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    4. And btw, if the Village Idiot thinks a W-L record tells you everything, before you’ve really played anyone, it’s amazing she has the nerve (and stupidity) to knock anyone’s “football IQ”.

      It’s no wonder she’s earned all of those great nicknames people have for her.

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      1. you fucking senile limp-dick sack of shit. A team is judge by it’s win-loss record not by margin of victores/\.

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      3. Week 3 we were #5 and by week 7 we were #10, but still undefeated. If the W-L record is the only thing that matters, that wouldn’t have happened.

        I give you the Village Idiot!

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      4. you senile sack of shit…the only poll that matters starts week 10……one’s opinion doesn’t change a team’s W/L lost record……quit trying to talk football you sound fucking lost….we are all laughing at your pathetic ass……

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      6. THE VOICES KEEP SAYING YOU NEED A GOOD ASS WHIPPING….YOU’RE LUCKY THAT KEYBOARD PROTECTS YOU….

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  13. On second thought there are positives–
    Vintage ‘Celeb 60-yarder to Rice Junior
    Got 20-points on one of the country’s best defenses
    Held sucla’s All-American defender “Spit-tooee” or something
    to only 2-sacks and 8 tackles.

    And Wiley, the toast of the town last year and now they just want to toast him, but he’s 40, prideful, has offensive talent and will probably figure-out this ‘coaching thing’ in a year or two

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  14. And so Celeb rides off into the sunset never to be seen again
    unless you own a tv, but it’s not the same he being a Trojan
    and bringing SC several victories on his own

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  15. One thought is that Celeb’s ‘Parting of the Red Sea’ offensive line
    brought half of Celeb’s fame showing off his ‘run for my life’ pirouetting dance steps

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  18. Riley is the world’s highest paid offensive coordinator. He’s not a head coach. And he certainly has not embraced USC tradition–unlike Pete Carroll, who made it a priority to learn and embrace the rich history and tradition. But maybe that’s because there’s no one left in the athletic department who understands it either.

    I feel bad to Caleb, who played most of the season like he had to win every game by himself–because that was the reality.

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    1. I would even venture to say that Riley is not an effective offensive coordinator, but only a good QB coach. If he doesnt learn some new tricks, the results will stink.

      I guess he can hire some coaches and try to turn things around. Maybe that will work, or maybe not.

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  19. Hard lessons. USC struggles to learn lessons. Helton wasn’t ready to be head coach at a top tier power 5 school and neither was Riley at both OU and USC. There is something to be said for learning your craft at lower levels and building for the next step up. It’s not an absolute solution but it is a principle to have to hire good coaches. Are they really any good at what they do? Are they ready for the next step? USC admins failed twice with the same missed principles. Riley took over a strong program in OU and Had Stoops as mentor to guide him and he still screwed up. USC gave him the keys to a dumpster fire and gave him no oversight, mentorship, nor leadership. He isn’t ready for the stage he is on. So now USC has to come up with more money for new assistants and NIL money for players. Because they ain’t coming here without some paper to come in as a 4 or 5 star and leave a 2 star and no NFL.

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