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Lincoln Riley Responds To Rumor He Was "Running" From SEC

by Larry Leo

June 10, 202227 Comments

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In a recent ESPN interview, USC's new head coach Lincoln Riley opened up about his departure from Oklahoma and shut down the idea that he was trying to avoid the SEC...

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"Oh yeah, I knew that was out there," Riley told ESPN. "Football is football. I wasn't running from the SEC. I was running to USC. That's probably the best way I could answer that."

"The combination here of the elite academics and you've got a proven football history - it's been done here - and then that big L.A. market, all of that ... I just don't know of anywhere else that has those three," Riley said.

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Sevensblue•35 months

I think he could really build a monster there in LA. Think Clemson but even better with all those elite California recruits, he made a wise decision in my opinion

oleheat•35 months

Translation: “I was running from the SEC.”

theOG•35 months

Pussy

CrystalPreserves•35 months

He has a wife he has to keep the approval of. She wears the pants. She dictates when and where she spends his money.

Mr Happy•35 months

I didn't know he was concerned about elite academics.

Fightin Okra•35 months

Big LA market has nothing to do with college football

FlyinTiger93•35 months

When kids want to rub elbows with Hollywood's elites, it does.

cphill•35 months

He didn't want any part of the SEC and he knows it.....at OK , he always got curb-stomped by the upper tier SEC teams....he may do fine at USC, but I still doubt they can beat an SEC tam in the playoffs...

BigPerm30•35 months

I smell vagina

ImBatman•35 months

Um yes, there does seem to have an aroma of a females vagina in the air my friend.

Damathe•35 months

And since USC always makes the cheerleaders stand in the down-wind end zone, it's definitely coming from the bench area.

CanebreakCajun•35 months

Yeah those kids are looking for elite academics….

ForLSU56•35 months

Good deflect

cwill•35 months

The key to college football right now is $$$$ for NIL. He may have made the right choice.

JakeFromStateFarm•35 months

Nobody is buying that bullshite. He didn’t want to compete against the rest of the SEC and everyone knows it.

CajunBullet•35 months

Yep, he is / was sceered of the SEC, so he took his ball and went to the West Coast!

KennabraTiger•35 months

Yeah ok

Hangit•35 months

"I dint run! I jogged.

idlewatcher•35 months

Wimp. Meanwhile for all his faults, BK sure as hell didn’t run to the west coast.

caliegeaux•35 months

I’ve had PBR and Taco Bell shits that didn’t run as fast he did.

SeeeeK•35 months

He ran quicker, than Meyer faked a heart ailment.

Billy Mays•35 months

Elite academics matter, eh? Already drunk on the left coast kool-aid

BayouSupaChamp•35 months

He straight up ran!!! He knows when his teams play big games vs those big name schools (SEC), he doesn’t look like this great coach he’s usually thought of otherwise

Shamoan•35 months

what does elite academics have to do with anything?

GoAwayImBaitn•35 months

He's trying to suggest the SEC schools are dumb I suppose

Texas Weazel•35 months

He called Oklahoman's dumb. He isn't wrong.

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