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

by Larry Leo

June 10, 202227 Comments

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...

quote:
"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.

(The Spun)

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Sevensblue

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

Reply•15 months

oleheat

Translation: “I was running from the SEC.”

Reply•15 months

theOG

Pussy

Reply•15 months

CrystalPreserves

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

Reply•15 months

Mr Happy

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

Reply•15 months

Fightin Okra

Big LA market has nothing to do with college football

Reply•15 months

FlyinTiger93

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

15 months

cphill

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...

Reply•15 months

BigPerm30

I smell vagina

Reply•15 months

ImBatman

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

15 months

Damathe

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

15 months

CanebreakCajun

Yeah those kids are looking for elite academics….

Reply•15 months

ForLSU56

Good deflect

Reply•15 months

cwill

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

Reply•15 months

JakeFromStateFarm

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

Reply•15 months

CajunBullet

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

15 months

KennabraTiger

Yeah ok

Reply•15 months

Hangit

"I dint run! I jogged.

Reply•15 months

idlewatcher

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

Reply•15 months

caliegeaux

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

Reply•15 months

SeeeeK

He ran quicker, than Meyer faked a heart ailment.

Reply•15 months

Billy Mays

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

Reply•15 months

BayouSupaChamp

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

Reply•15 months

Shamoan

what does elite academics have to do with anything?

Reply•15 months

GoAwayImBaitn

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

15 months

Texas Weazel

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

15 months

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