The Talk Sports Talk radio host has long been very critical of a main coach, in particular, in recent years, and has reiterated his feelings towards him again this week
Paul Finebaum de Espn went directly to the Jugular when he talked about the possession of Lincoln Riley’s coach at USC, saying he would have fired “a year ago” after another campaign by bewright in 2024.
The long time Sports conversation radio host He has been very critical of the 41-year-old since the change of Oklahoma in 2022, which suggested that he should have been fired on several occasions and even call him a “fraud” after being able to fulfill the high expectations. Los Angeles.
Does not arrive much after Riley was marked as “pathetic” for having repeatedly rejected doubts about the future of The rivalry of Trojan university football with Notre DameWhile Finebaum recently made headlines to produce one of the most agonic live interviews on television with Miss Principal coach Lane Kiffin.
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The latter has caught his attention again with his latest Riley’s short evaluation, taking his show entitled to the dry network to claim that if he were, he would have shot the first Texas Technological quarterback before the previous season.
“He would have fired Lincoln Riley a year ago,” Finebaum said. “But he has a purchase of $ 60 million. So it is very difficult to get rid of him.
“He has a great class of recruitment, which means nothing in the current strata of recruitment. But another bad season and I think everyone will finally come to the conclusion that we have; it is a bust.”
During his five seasons by Oklahoma between the period 2017-2021, Riley collected a 55-10 record, won four Big 12 Championships and won three University Playoff Football ATS. He also achieved the highest winning percentage in the history of the Egg program coaches.
Since taking over the USC, Riley has accumulated a less impressive, but still respectable record, 26-14. In his first campaign, he collected the place where he left with Oklahoma, taking the Trojans to a record 11-3 and a place in the game of the PAC-12 championship.
Since then, however, things have been in a descending career. During its second season, USC ended with 8-5, while the most recent campaign saw that this record went down again to 7-6.
In the Sec, the USC record read 5-4 in 2023 and 4-5 in 2024, making the record of the Riley Global Conference at 17-10. In the latter, the Trojans ended up as low as ninth.
The next campaign is, without a doubt, the largest in Riley as USC chief still, with the main improvements needed if he has to save his work. Although, as Finebaum said, his astronomical purchase clause is the only thing he works in his favor.
If USC decides to separate with Riley, it would be the highest purchase in the history of university football, overcoming the purchase of $ 77.5 million from Jimbo Fisher in Texas A&M in November 2023.
The USC starts in the 2025 season with home games against Missouri State and Georgia Southern, providing the perfect opportunity to start things. There is also the annual rivalry program with Notre Dame on October 18.