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Lincoln Riley Wants New Defense . . . Two Years Too Late

Lincoln Riley kind of threw Alex Grinch under the bus today.

“The size and style we play up front was No. 1,” Riley said about what he wanted from a new defensive coordinator.

Riley also said he didn’t want someone who would try to force a scheme on the players but wanted someone who could adapt to the personnel and the opponent.

“This is a very different defensive system than we’ve been running previously,” Riley said.

So if that is all true, here is a simple question: Why did Riley bring Grinch in the first place? Why didn’t he hire someone who met the above qualifications two years ago? It might have meant a College Football Playoff appearance.

115 thoughts on “Lincoln Riley Wants New Defense . . . Two Years Too Late”

  1. Riley’s comment is proof he’s a liar. All we ever heard from this guy was how the defense was this, how the defense was that, Grinch is great blah blah blah and now this statement ?

    Oh well, 4-8 next year and probably the same in 2025 and he’ll be out the door and USC can start all over again.

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      4. should I feel guilty about slapping an old man around like a pinata?…… a big NO!

        But you should have a guilty conscience about all the kiddie porn you jack off to in the outhouse……I heard it has cum shots all over the walls….

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      1. If only the trash truck would do that to the dumpster you live in, Board Coward, Zero Football IQ Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka Cowardly Gabby/TebowObama

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  3. “This is a very different defensive system than we’ve been running recently,” proudly announces Wiley, and one would hope so as the last ‘defensive system’ led the country except for 110 other schools

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  4. Poor Wolfman is blind to the stories of Riley and Grinch partaking in secret
    meet-ups to play pitch and catch!……tebow nailed it from the beginning

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      3. I loved it when I schooled you on Kiffin last summer, Board Coward, Zero Football IQ Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka Cowardly Gabby/TebowObama . You really know nothing about any subject except perversion,

        JULY 15, 2023 AT 9:38 PM
        More lies and myths from Cowardly Gabby. Kiffin was not dealing with anything because Pat Haden had appealed the sanctions until 2011 and Kiffin had signed 31 players in 2011 and had 75 players on the roster when the season began in 2012. USC was allowed to sign no more than 15 players for its 2012, 2013 and 2014 recruiting classes but were going to have a small recruiting class in 2012 regardless.

        Sark and Hugs were the one most affected by the sanctions.

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      6. grabbbyy

        DECEMBER 5, 2023 AT 2:17 AM

        I loved it when I schooled you on Kiffin last summer, Board Coward, Zero Football IQ Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka Cowardly Gabby/TebowObama . You really know nothing about any subject except perversion,

        JULY 15, 2023 AT 9:38 PM
        More lies and myths from Cowardly Gabby. Kiffin was not dealing with anything because Pat Haden had appealed the sanctions until 2011 and Kiffin had signed 31 players in 2011 and had 75 players on the roster when the season began in 2012. USC was allowed to sign no more than 15 players for its 2012, 2013 and 2014 recruiting classes but were going to have a small recruiting class in 2012 regardless.

        Sark and Hugs were the one most affected by the sanctions

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        That clown Clay Helton managed to go 10-3 and 11-3 his first two years as head coach with Kiffin and Sarkisian’s players…LOL!

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      7. grabbbyy, aka gotroy22, is a low-IQ troll who must live day to day with Gabby and Joe filling his every thought. I could see if the troll knew something about football but it’s obvious he doesn’t…,..all his one-sentence football comments are just repeats of what others said before him…

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      8. Board Coward, Zero Football IQ Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka Cowardly Gabby/TebowObama is a NO IQ Troll paid to spam here 24-7-365-20 years. How sad to be her and waste her life spamming on a blog.

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      9. So you agree with me that the sanction didn’t hurt Kiffin, and in addition you are saying they didn’t hurt Sark or Helton either! Thanks for agreeing with me now, Board Coward, Zero Football IQ Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka Cowardly Gabby/TebowObama

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      4. Look at the Undocumented Democrats pour in, enough to fill Galen every day.

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      5. dipshit……did you personally ask each one what their party affiliation is……so you really don’t know ……you’re a limp dick troll with zero football IQ

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      6. Why do you think Senile Joe has let 20 million illegal aliens flood into America before the 2024 election? Even the Democrat Mayor of NYC knows there is nowhere to put them all. You have no IQ, period, so you support flooding America with illegal aliens.

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      8. grabbbyy: illegal aliens are overwhelmingly Democrat voters.

        you senile low IQ sack of shit……how can illegals be voters when only legal American citizen are allowed to vote……Do you put any thought into the trash you post…..NO!

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      2. Grabbyy —Rumor has it they’re photoshopping the last scene of The Godfather to make it appear Michael Corleone is going after the entire Biden team — in turnstiles, elevators, massage tables, in bed with girlfriends, on the City Hall steps…… until they get around to Hunter(Carlo) —“Don’t insult my intelligence, Hunter…it was you.”
        #”Yes,Godfather,BooHooHoo”

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    1. Where’s your boy Mike Bohn?

      You couldn’t heap enough praise on that clown and look at the mess he left at USC.

      Now I see why you flunked out of Pasadena City College, just like your buddy Cal 75 hippie…both dumb as a rock and misogynistic too.

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      2. Where is your boy Charlie Bucket? Oh wait, you ARE Charlie Bucket.

        Charlie Bucket
        JULY 15, 2023 AT 10:47 PM
        Wow, things getting heated around here. As you all know the Classy Cadre filed an Amicus Curiae brief with the NCAA supporting the Desth Penalty for SC. We shrugged and accepted the findings and GOT ON with our lives. Can’t you all do the same?

        #LetItGoAlready

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      1. Ms. Five By Five is taken, so you will have to find another woman to be your lesbo lover, Board Coward, Zero Football IQ Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka Cowardly Gabby/TebowObama.

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      2. Why? You are a coward who never shows up for the fights you demand here, Board Coward, Zero Football IQ Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka Cowardly Gabby/TebowObama

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  8. Wolfie, you throw everyone under the bus just to try and make yourself feel more important than you are. You used to throw Pete Carroll under the bus when he was winning championships. You find something negative to say about anyone that makes you feel small. Now, I’m not a psychiatrist but that is an easy diagnosis. Extreme inferiority complex. Try not to hurt yourself little guy.

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    1. Wolf coined Caesar term during Carroll era.
      100% agree, Wolf is just an unhappy human being who loves tearing down anyone and everything. If Wolf won the Lottery, say $20 million, he would bitch anout paying $8 million in taxes, not realizing he was $12 million better off.
      Oh well, still read this blog hoping to get some SoCal insider insight.
      Zero Insight on Beavis and Butthead, Wallace World blog and Wallace seems to have fallen off bandwagon.

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    2. Not responding to Ken only…I dont always agree with Wolf, but why does everyone show up to this site to just tell the author what is wrong with him? What does that say about you wasting your time to come here and bash Wolf?

      We all know Wolf is completely negative on USC football. Are you expecting to see anything different? There is a difference between disagreeing and needing to trash the person for their opinion.

      Everything posted on this site is just an opinion, based on limited facts.

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      1. It is mainly an act by Wolfie who loves to be contrary such as
        “Well, it’s Monday”
        Wolf: “No, it’s Tuesday somewhere”

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      2. no one outside of MG and slo pa-troll comes here to worship Scott and get current USC info…..this is basically a shit-talking message board…. accept it for what it is….

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      4. Goodbye all.
        With gametv comments that is it. Done, finished, the end.

        I respectively disagree but no need to comment anymore.

        Wishing everyone a peaceful, healthy life along with USC winning and making everyone proud.

        See you at the Coliseum next year

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      5. I agree gametv and I’m one of them who bitches about Wolf. I come here strictly for the posters & comments. Maybe if Wolf changed the blog to Anti SC” it’d make more sense. He’s def not Inside.

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  9. Lincoln Riley needs an advisor, someone to advise him to shut up. The more he talks, the more he gives himself away as being a fraud. He never says the right things, especially after a loss. Did he say he doesn’t want the new defensive coordinator to force a scheme on players that won’t fit it? Does that mean he won’t take that Mike Leach finesse offense into the Big Ten, where they will physically dominate the line of scrimmage, and run the ball down his Trojans throats?

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  10. Despite what long ago SC coach Larry Smith said about the SC logo and name meaning nothing, just wait until the Trojans march into Michigan in September with 110,000 Wolverines shaking like a leaf

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  11. Just listened to Riley’s phone call on Youtube and he was pretty clear that the goal was to build the best defensive staff, regardless of whether that was coaches currently at USC or not, so seems like it is completely open to replace guys if they are not perceived by D’Anton as being the best.

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    1. glad to hear he’s taking ownership and in his words, committed to fixing this shit-show defense……Donte would be the first to go

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    2. Nice article, although it is a soft ball pitch. It is really difficult to tell if the defensive coaches are a bunch of rubes, or if it was fully Grinch’s ridiculous leadership and schemes.

      Can someone answer a question for me? USC doesnt have a safeties coach nor a QB coach, nor a special teams coach and the o-line coach is the OC (or the head coach is the OC). They have an extra receivers coach. That seems to me like they are at least one-two coaches shy, what am I missing about the coaching math here?

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  14. As usual Charles comes through with still another informative article, and I like how Wiley describes the upcoming game with ‘Louie Louie’ as a half last game for 2023 and a half game for 2024, or in other words ‘This bowl game sets the table for 2024 so let’s go out and win it’

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    1. I’ve wondered all year what would happen if we removed the “star” from the lineup and just let a bunch of “nice, motivated kids” play football…
      #Now,IGuessI’mGonnaFindOut

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      1. Get a life old man……start a garden ………get a greeter job at Walmart……it’s better than trolling this blog 20 hours a day…..

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      2. Interesting thought, how good for SC was Celeb? With his face all over television and Wiley in constant communication with him, it kind of became ‘The Celeb and other Trojans Show.’

        As friendly as Celeb was there might be some relief in the clubhouse over his departure as in “Maybe Trojans will pay attention to me now”

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      3. The problem I had with Caleb is that I’m suspicious that he has hindered LR from running the offense he ran at Oklahoma. When he was the OC at East Carolina, he definitely threw the ball more and ran the ball less. That all changed when he came to Oklahoma. His first year at Oklahoma(as OC) he ran the ball 63% of the time. The offense that LR has run at SC is not the same offense he ran in his 7 years at Oklahoma. At Oklahoma he ran the ball 55% of the time in 7 years at OU.. His offense at SC has not ran the ball nearly as much. LR sends in a play and Caleb changes it on the LOS. LR gets criticized for not running the ball more. I’d like to know how many running plays that he sent in and Caleb changed the play on the LOS to a pass. Another factor could be Kliff Kingbury. Whatever the case, he’s not running the same offense that was so successful at OU. LR allowed Caleb too much authority to do his own thing, especially in 2023.

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      4. Wowsie — Are we ever fortunate to have a guy without a college degree, who never held a real job, advising us on matters of God, time management and politics….
        #…AllOfWhichAreMattersWay,WayAboveHisEmptyHead

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      5. Chronically online refers to a person who’s consumed by internet culture.
        When people describe someone else as “chronically online,” it generally means that they spend a significant amount of time online, to the point that it skews their perspective on life and makes it hard for them to talk rationally about political or social justice issues. They also tend to call out “problematic” behavior that others might not see as an issue

        MG is my new little bitch!

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    2. …in case it’s not abundantly clear, above is for Gabby —
      #GoBackToSchool,Pal
      #ItTakesMoreThanAHighSchoolCourseInGeneralScienceToGetBy

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      3. Why lie about being married…..I have the proof you are not…..or Ms. Solo lied on a notarized legal document… What is the truth?….. You’re a lonely old man how has been reduced to living in a third-rate blog 24/7…..You never left the blog for a month, you were still around under one of your sock puppets…

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      3. what a fucking freak….had to pull out another sock puppet because grabbbyy was taking an ass whipping…..

        when are you going to meet up with Gabby….make sure you bring the hunchback plow with you so I can put the …..” why are you avoiding plow” to rest

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      6. MY MONEY IS ON BAMA ….no one is going to sneak up on them……Saban has then ready from the eye test, they look like the best team in the country

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      2. They are one of the best four teams period….why mock the committee

        tell me who should replace them?

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      3. 13-0 Power 5 Conference Champion Florida State
        Bama would be next up and it is understandable that some (many or most perhaps) would prefer Bama over FSU without their starting QB.
        But given how often the SEC has used its NCAA control to manipulate the playoff and before that rankings/bowls, I will take FSU (and they did beat LSU, Clemson, Duke, Miami, Florida, Louisville … so not exactly undeserving).

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      2. When you tell lies it’s hard to keep your story straight…how could you be in two places at the same time?….another lie, here’s proof!

        Michael Guarino
        AUGUST 11, 2023 AT 4:47 PM
        Thanks so much, San Marcos! I grabbed files, artwork and photo albums when we left Oakland to wait out the fire at Harris Ranch.

        Michael Guarino
        AUGUST 9, 2023 AT 4:58 PM
        Yep. Had no home — but showed up in Judge Obera’s court to do an E.R.I.S.A. preemption motion on a wage theft case Monday morning …
        #ITellThatStoryToMyKids5TimesAYear
        [When we finally saw the house I was surprised —I expected to see a burned up house, burned up car in the driveway, burned up garden —- but—-there was no house, no car, no garden —- only thing left was the chain to my heavy bag in the backyard]…

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      3. stmarseille14
        DECEMBER 2, 2023 AT 3:24 AM
        Your house burns down on a Saturday and you’re on an airplane back to LA the next day while your displaced family is left at Harris Ranch. So you can make it to court on Monday and brag about it! What loser would leave his mentally and emotionally distressed family behind for a job…….I find it difficult to believe any logical and caring person would do that……I have doubts about who you are…

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    1. Michael Guarino
      DECEMBER 2, 2023 AT 2:53 AM
      Post your area code right now so I know it’s you…then call and I’ll pick up.
      I’ll tell you all about how it’s possible to have more than one home, a feminist wife who kept her maiden name, forget your anniversary [and other stuff when you lead a busy life], fly back and forth between L. A. and Oakland and Maui on machines called airplanes….all kinds of stuff.
      Call me. I’ll be so nice it’ll make you puke.

      His so-called wife won’t even take his last name…..massive disrespect and honor……OR she just never married the coconut head, aka MG…….he’s trapped in another lie…..HAHA!

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    2. Michael Guarino
      AUGUST 9, 2023 AT 4:58 PM
      Yep. Had no home — but showed up in Judge Obera’s court to do an E.R.I.S.A. preemption motion on a wage theft case Monday morning …

      MG can’t remember the year his house burnt to the ground but recalls exactly what he was doing in court the Monday after the fire…..While his so-called family sits homeless

      THE GUY IN FULL OF SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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