USC’s coach is doing the tough thing by sticking with his embattled defensive coordinator, by picking him up instead of making him the fall guy.
We could all use a friend like Lincoln Riley.Folks in Oklahoma would balk at that assessment, of course. There he’ll probably always be derided for turning heel to come west to coach USC, for pulling a heel turn worthy of a WWE script. For becoming the first Sooners coach to leave for another job since 1973, and the first to leave for another college gig since 1946.
But here in L.A., it’s Riley’s loyalty – blind, bewildering, beautiful? – to embattled defensive coordinator Alex Grinch that the team’s supporters are going to find dismaying. At least in the near term, and maybe in the long term, too. We’ll see. Because in USC’s two losses with a healthy Caleb Williams – against Utah on Oct. 15, and against Tulane in the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 2 –Trojans’ 43-42 heartbreaker
in Salt Lake City, USC defenders missed 18 tackles, gave up 291 of the Utes’ whopping 562 yards in the second half, allowed three first downs by penalty and had just one tackle for loss.succumb to the Green WaveIt’s tough to defend a defensive coordinator whose entire job is to prepare the Trojans on that side of the ball to stop opposing offenses, including good ones.
But offend fans though he might, after some contemplation, Riley is doing the tough thing by sticking with Grinch, picking him up instead of making him the fall guy., telling Southern California News Group’s Adam Grosbard and seven others: “I don’t even feel like 50-50 at all conflicted about it. I feel I have a clear vision of what we’re gonna be defensively, and I think we can and need to and will take a big jump here in the next 12 months.
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