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Riley really is a steaming pile..

Posted on 12/2/21 at 3:01 am
Posted by TheBiggestBrother
Nashville
Member since Jul 2021
2091 posts
Posted on 12/2/21 at 3:01 am
Of shite..OU should sue him for every penny of this years salary and for damages. He's obviously known he was going to USC for quite some time. His recruiting tactics are among the worst I've ever seen. It costs a fortune to recruit players and Lincoln Riley should be held financially responsible for the cost of every decommitted recruit. This has cost them an entire recruiting class, a stacked recruiting class at that. Let me be clear I'm not an OU fan but holy hell.
Posted by JayAg
Member since Jun 2021
10282 posts
Posted on 12/2/21 at 3:34 am to
Kids should have committed to the school not the coach, but with the logic you’re spitting, the opposite must hold then, if OU poaches a big name coach, that coach shouldn’t accept any recruits from whichever school gets poached, he shouldn’t leave until the season is officially over, etc etc, it’s a business, it sucks but we’ve all been poached before, hell, Sark poached your OL coach and ST coach last year, you think LSU is going to turn away any commits that want in with BK in BR? Nope, I expect if OU gets a Brent V, a few Clemson commits to follow, which is par for the course, you gonna call OU unethical if that happens too?
Posted by LSUstephen17
Houston
Member since Aug 2010
13112 posts
Posted on 12/2/21 at 3:49 am to
Go to bed
Posted by Arkapigdiesel
Arkansas
Member since Jun 2009
13470 posts
Posted on 12/2/21 at 4:26 am to
quote:

Lincoln Riley should be held financially responsible for the cost of every decommitted recruit.
Posted by ibldprplgld
Member since Feb 2008
25125 posts
Posted on 12/2/21 at 5:26 am to
How many recruits/players are USC bound from OU?
Posted by MosesRAB93
Sachse, TX (near Dallas)
Member since Apr 2014
292 posts
Posted on 12/2/21 at 5:28 am to
I’d say clearly true for the Cali kids he recruited at OU that are now joining him.
Posted by STATEofMIND
Member since Oct 2012
4253 posts
Posted on 12/2/21 at 5:32 am to
I’d be curious to know when the deal was actually made. It appears this was done a lot earlier than a few weeks ago. If he was using OK resources to purposely recruit for another school then I’d be pretty pissed off.
Posted by SteelerBravesDawg
Member since Sep 2020
35712 posts
Posted on 12/2/21 at 5:33 am to
Jesus Christ.
Posted by DawgsLife
Member since Jun 2013
59019 posts
Posted on 12/2/21 at 6:54 am to
A lot of people disagree with you, but I understand what you are saying....and somewhat agree.

Riley went out and purposely targeted a lot of players from California with what appears to be the intent to go to USC all along, using Oklahoma's money, efforts and time to recruit for USC.

Proving that is what happened is another story, though. They (Oklahoma) do seem to have an abnormally large group of players following the coach to his new school.

It appears as if Riley did not want to start from scratch recruiting once he got to USC. He can look at the class committed to USC now and tell the players he does not want to look elsewhere, and then bring in the players he recruited to Oklahoma to USC with him.
This post was edited on 12/2/21 at 6:58 am
Posted by rebeloke
Member since Nov 2012
16196 posts
Posted on 12/2/21 at 6:57 am to
This thread is a steaming pile…
Posted by JustinOKC
OKC
Member since Jul 2021
672 posts
Posted on 12/2/21 at 7:59 am to
I genuinely hope Lincoln Riley and the staff that left with him all get incurable flaming gonorrhea of both the mouth and crotchel region.
Posted by BoomerSooner
Member since Dec 2017
440 posts
Posted on 12/2/21 at 8:00 am to
It’s rough up here right now, but I remain optimistic. We’ve had decomits from 2022 and 2023, we’ve got some guys in the transfer portal. However, I’m not overly concerned about the guys in the portal to this point. They are all highly rated guys, but guys that didn’t do much this year. Also, none of the portal guys seem to be heading to USC. It is my belief that there is a good chance that the new head coach will bring a few transfers with him aswell. I liked Riley and he was getting some highly recruited guys, but I also felt that the product that he was putting on the field had regressed year after year. This gives us an opportunity to get a guy in here with a focus on defense. Which IMO is what we’ll need making the move to the SEC
Posted by BLG
Georgia
Member since Mar 2018
7178 posts
Posted on 12/2/21 at 8:01 am to
quote:

TheBiggestBrother


Still pissed he spurned LSU eh?

Your purple and yellow slip is showing.
Posted by Ag Zwin
Member since Mar 2016
20203 posts
Posted on 12/2/21 at 8:32 am to
quote:

He's obviously known he was going to USC for quite some time.

Now do Brian Kelly.

It’s the way it goes. What is the alternative?
Posted by BorrisMart
La
Member since Jul 2020
8842 posts
Posted on 12/2/21 at 8:33 am to
quote:

TheBiggestBrother


Next, you'll be saying Bama should be able to sue any school that gets a recruit they spent money on chasing. It's not that serious, just give the charger to the next guy in line.
Posted by cyogi
Member since Feb 2009
5142 posts
Posted on 12/2/21 at 8:37 am to
OU will be fine and should get a good coach to take his place. But from what I've read So. Cal has more than just roster issues. Riley's got his work cut out for him over there.

IMO, So. Cal should have gone after Brian Kelly (program rebuild) and Riley (besides OU) would have fit really well at Florida.
Posted by Jma313
Member since Aug 2010
5157 posts
Posted on 12/2/21 at 8:41 am to
You obviously have never been to LA or Oklahoma if you’re acting this surprised kids would choose USC over OU. Cannot even compare the two. Norman sucks.
Posted by IAmNERD
Member since May 2017
19364 posts
Posted on 12/2/21 at 8:42 am to
Riley is early Kiffin at this point. Bright, young (ish) football guy who was given the keys to a Ferrari program (and hadn't really done anything to deserve the job other than being Bob Stoops' boy) and took a shite on them on the way out to USC.

USC will realize that even Riley can't resurrect that dead program and leave him on a tarmac out west in 4 years.
This post was edited on 12/2/21 at 8:43 am
Posted by Tridentds
Sugar Land
Member since Aug 2011
20711 posts
Posted on 12/2/21 at 8:43 am to
Much worse than Franklin when he left Vandy. Sorry POS.
Posted by IAmNERD
Member since May 2017
19364 posts
Posted on 12/2/21 at 8:53 am to
One thing about the whole thing that is really odd to me is how LR is basically moving the OU program to USC. I've seen several things posted around the entire internet that points to there being some deep locker room divisions and lots of infighting going on there under LR.

How true any of that is, obviously I don't know because I'm not there. I would think that Riley would want a clean slate and a new start. So it just strikes me as odd that he's bringing so many coaches and players with him.
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