Beginning in late November 2021, when then-Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley jumped ship to Los Angeles to become USC’s head coach, the Trojans have operated under various themes to help explain why their rebuild always seems to unfold at such a leisurely pace.
The various talking points throughout Riley’s high-priced, pressure-packed tenure have looked something like this:
An immediate need to overhaul the roster that felt perpetually enveloped by scandal from the middle of former coach Pete Carroll’s dynasty in 2006 through the firing of successors Lane Kiffin and Steve Sarkisian
An overreliance on the transfer portal to force a national…
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