Lincoln Riley finds new ways to lose and embarrass USC.
How does he blow a 10-point lead to TCU and its backup QB in the final five minutes?
How does USC let a third-and-20 in overtime turn into a 35-yard game-winning touchdown pass?
Do you still think this season showed progress? Do you trust Riley to lead USC to success?
What amazes me is people are worried about Notre Dame keeping USC out of the College Football Playoff. Do these people watch the games? USC has shown nothing to suggest it is ready to challenge Ohio State, Oregon or Indiana next year.
Lincoln Riley has lost 15 games in the past 3 years at USC but the diehard fanboys still say he’s making progress.
The truth is USC still needs to improve its tackling and blocking, the basics of football. After four years, USC is still not a physical football team.
Riley said after the game it has been four “fun but challenging years” to open USC’s window but the window is open now. Is he serious? Maybe he should jump of the window.
It’s astounding that some fans want to entrust the program to this buffoon while letting him destroy the USC-Notre Dame rivalry.
The diehards already had their excuses ready last night, complaining that the Trojans fielded a young bowl team. But how hard was it for three guys (who all played quite a bit during the season) to simply knock a tailback out of bounds on the final play?
D’Anton Lynn wasn’t there but the Dawg Work-led defense looked suspiciously familiar as it fell apart in the fourth quarter and overtime.
Don’t let the offense off the hook either.Jayden Maiava was off most of the night and USC could not do anything with first-and-goal at the 2-yard line in OT.
Did you know Tanook Hines, who had 163 yards receiving, wasn’t even on the field for third-and-goal at the 5-yard line in OT?
Where does this choke job rank for Riley? How does it compare to the Tulane loss his first season? Or the losses to Michigan, Minnesota, Penn State and Maryland last year?
No wonder he has done everything possible to avoid Notre Dame. He can’t even beat short-handed TCU.
InsideUSC with Scott Wolf 
I stayed up to see this analysis —knowing it would be spot on. For the umpteenth time Lincoln rates Scott’s wrath. Relatives have already called to laugh at the way USC collapsed on the final play [“It was better than we could hope for”].
What makes it even worse was Lincoln couldn’t even accept responsibility for the softness his team showed. He actually threw the players under the bus at his presser [“We put them in position, they just didn’t execute”]….
#HeDoesn’tGetIt…
#OnceAgainHe’sMadeMyBruinLovingIn-LawsVeryHappy
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I have this funny feeling new UCLA Bruin HC Bob Chesney is going to make things more challenging/worse for Lincoln Riley.
#BobChesney>LincolnRiley
#CrosstownShowdown
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KAM: 4 Trojans had a chance to tackle the TCU receiver on the winning touchdown in OT…https://x.com/LoganABrown/status/2006239410296349024…
DON: We were at a Trojan viewing party with a big screen TV and everyone assumed the running back was out of bounds until we saw the replay.
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So right MG- I still can’t believe we are sitting here 4 years later saying the same fing thing about LR. Bottom line in this quack will always be a quack because real coaches solve their weaknesses with time- this d@ck ignores them. Speaking of the games final play, He actually had the balls to say this postgame- “there wasn’t a lot of times this year where we missed multiple tackles on the same play” . This perfectly showed how disconnected he is from reality.
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I can not believe a head coach would say something like:
“we put them in position, but they didn’t execute”
Ten million for this worm?
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KAM: With 2:00 left in the first half down 14-10, USC has the ball on the 17 yard line and is easily moving the ball. Yet instead of having their experienced QB Maiava pick apart the TCU defense with short passes in the classic Two Minute Drill, Riley Coyote the play caller runs the ball twice , has the offense huddle twice in no apparent hurry as 70 seconds run off the clock. Then, with 24 seconds left, with the ball on the 11 yard line, instead of going for the first down, he has Maiava throw a lob deep in the end zone that is batted away and settles for a field goal and SC goes into the half losing 14-13 to depleted TCU. He had TCU’s defense on the ropes and let up. He has done this over and over the last 4 years.
DON: Charles Barkley would call that turrible clock management. Absolutely infuriating!
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Lincoln just keeps on stinkin. Self-awareness? Accepting responsibility? No shows. Hand the offensive (as in insolent) whizz (as in pi$$) an IOU and a bus ticket back to Muleshoe, Jen. Please.
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Not only was Seals a backup QB. He hadn’t started a game since Nov 11, 2023, when he was at Vanderbilt!!
Clay could have done what Riley did last night for half the cost.
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I am sick and freaking done with Riley and USC football…as they are now.
I have no desire to watch the train wreck that USC has become-any longer
Since USC football is okay with settling for mediocrity, bring back Helton
#He’sMuchEasierOnTheWallet.EffRiley!
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This game was a coaching loss, pure and simple. The play calling on offense and defense was sporadic at best and horrible at worst. The three man rush on third and long has never worked, but the DC keeps going to it; that is insanity. When they were aggressive with a five man front; they were very good, and then for some inexplicable reason they stopped being aggressive. That is on the coaches. On offense with first and goal at the two yard line; they don’t go under center and use the Bush push. Where is the running QB with the fake handoff to the RB? Where was the play that got the two point conversion. They had three lost opportunities in the red zone because of bad play calling. No real tight end play and I know that they were the second stringers, but they are on scholarship. Did the ends practice with Maiava during the past three weeks. There were no easy catches. If not for the two spectacular catches, the passing offense wasn’t present all night. And the first and second down runs into the heart of a stacked defense was inexcusable. I try to be positive, but it is impossible with this coaching staff. If this insanity continues next year, it will be another wasted and embarrassing year. And, the athletic administration will need to bite the bullet and let Riley go just like LSU did with Brian Kelly. I also have a feeling that UCLA got a good coach to rebuild their team just like Cignetti did with Indiana. Hire a coach, any coach, who has a proven record of building a complete team and not a glorified QB guru. Fight on, Dan, Class of 1962. P.S. I’m sorry Scott for doubting you, but please give the ND tradition a rest….that is as much on ND as USC.
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the ND is on SC and Riley. What a joke
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Riley is horrid , never changes, takes no responsibility for anything, , he will never be a good head coach , his dumbing down the sked to try to get to 10 wins is embarrassing, buy him out like every other serious program dies , he has turned USC into a national joke of a football program
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