Head Coaching Candidates Thread; Brian Kelly goes to LSU

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@mzenitz: Lincoln Riley just informed his staff at Oklahoma that he’s taking the head coaching job at USC, a source tells @On3sports
 

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I can see why Riley would go to USC. But I also wonder why. Does OU not pay well, less resources, more pressure?

Hard to blame a coach for leaving the gauntlet that is and will be the SEC for similar money. All he has to do at USC is keep the state's talent, in-state. He doesn't have to make it to the SECCG to be in the play off hunt and when the playoff expands to eight team, even easier.
 

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I can see why Riley would go to USC. But I also wonder why. Does OU not pay well, less resources, more pressure?

Hard to blame a coach for leaving the gauntlet that is and will be the SEC for similar money. All he has to do at USC is keep the state's talent, in-state. He doesn't have to make it to the SECCG to be in the play off hunt and when the playoff expands to eight team, even easier.

Recruiting at USC has to be orders of magnitude easier than recruiting Oklahoma. There's only one other serious recruiter in the entire conference, and USC is the most prominent school in the most talent rich state for the conference.

Yeah Riley to USC does make more sense than LSU or even Florida, though it stings a lot to learn he was available after all and we probably didn't even bother to go after him.
 

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Yeah Riley to USC does make more sense than LSU or even Florida, though it stings a lot to learn he was available after all and we probably didn't even bother to go after him.
I do not dislike Riley, not at all. I would like to know why he is leaving OU or more if it has anything to do with management and their Athletic Department. I would have thought they really want to keep him, at all cost. It looks a little like he's running from the new expanded SEC, in which case, he would not have fared better at UF.
 

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Posted also in dedicated thread, but:

@AdamSchefter: Oklahoma has targeted Cardinals’ HC Kliff Kingsbury as one of the potential replacements for Lincoln Riley, league sources tell ESPN. Kingsbury has one year remaining on his contract after this season.
 

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Recruiting at USC has to be orders of magnitude easier than recruiting Oklahoma. There's only one other serious recruiter in the entire conference, and USC is the most prominent school in the most talent rich state for the conference.

Yeah Riley to USC does make more sense than LSU or even Florida, though it stings a lot to learn he was available after all and we probably didn't even bother to go after him.

Exactly, I rank the jobs this year SoCal > UF > LSU. If I were at power 5 conference job, I would be very careful about coming to the SEC without knowing what the divisions or pods look like. The UF job would look somewhat different if the Alabama schools both ended up in the East.
 

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Is it too late to offer Lane? Can we change horses?
Not sure I like French Fried Potaters and his 3-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense.
Did we just hire Muschamp 2.0, Big-Time-Head-Coach-in-Waiting, part Deux?
Stay tuned Gator Nation. We find out together...
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Isn't that the school that canned their coach for not getting needle raped?

What would it take for LSU to take the Ogre back? ...if they have a free fall like Tennessee did a few years back, they might wish they wouldn't have asked good ole Ed to take a hike! Now that we've got our guy locked up, this might get fun!

Not sure what the entire story is, but Ogre was apparently let go over some sexual affair.
 

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Take a deep breath. We are not your enemy. Just laugh with us instead of getting triggered. Its just a message board.
We actually might be his enemy. He openly HATES UF. Talks schit about it all the time.
 

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