Kyle Whittingham has been the head coach at the University of Utah for almost two full decades after replacing Urban Meyer following the 2004 regular season. He has become a fixture in Salt Lake City and has gone through several stages of a complicated but successful career.
Lincoln Riley is just getting started. He isn’t even 40 years old. He is still learning a lot about how to run a program. He surely learned a lot from his final year at Oklahoma and the transition to USC. Yet, Riley already has a collection of achievements most coaches never reach in a full career.
Let’s look at significant career accomplishments for the wise veteran, Whittingham, and the brilliant young program architect named Lincoln Riley: