Lincoln Riley talks about immediate aftermath of taking USC football job

Riley talked to interviewer Graham Bensinger about several subjects, but one made headlines. More from @USATODAYSports:

Lincoln Riley, recently interviewed by Graham Bensinger, talked about the first weeks and months after he took the head coaching job at USC and left his post at the University of Oklahoma.

USA TODAY Sports has more:

Riley spoke to Graham Bensinger on ‘In Depth with Graham Bensinger’ about concerns for his family after there were numerous break-in attempts at his Oklahoma residence.”

Riley told Bensinger, “Yeah, I had multiple … had a lot of different people trying to break into the house the days after it happened. And 95% of the fans and people out there at Oklahoma or anybody else are great. You typically always have that percentage that at times take it too far. Obviously, this was one of those instances.”

He continued:

“I didn’t care about the house. I didn’t care about anything else, just their safety. We wanted the girls to be able to finish out school, because the semester was almost over. And as that stuff transpired we said, ‘No, we gotta get them the hell out of here as fast as we can.'”

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