When Lincoln Riley did not appear on his weekly USC radio show on Monday evening, it could simply be a case of Riley not feeling well.
247Sports reporter Shotgun Spratling stated very clearly that Riley was visibly under the weather late last week before the Utah game, so it’s not as though Riley is manufacturing an absence out of nothing. He isn’t. He really is feeling sick.
Yet, the timing could not be more conspicuous. Riley not showing up for a radio show this time, this week, with all of the controversies and uncertainties swirling around the USC football program, will certainly get everyone’s attention.
It certainly has gained the attention of Oklahoma reporters and fans, whose tweets below show why they think Lincoln Riley might not stay at USC.
We don’t think Riley is going, but it’s certainly interesting to see Oklahoma reporters and fans — who did see Riley leave their school — react to everything happening at USC. They think something’s going on because this pattern of events is very familiar to them.
Let’s look at some of the details involved in this situation, and the parallels with November 2021, in the weeks before Riley left Oklahoma: