Ryan left Oklahoma State after the 1999 season to join Bill Belichick's Patriots staff, and hasn't coached in college since.
Rob Ryan is best known for the 20-plus years he's spent bouncing around NFL staffs, but the 62-year-old son of Buddy Ryan has a college football background. He made his official return to college ball on Saturday, as the newest member of Lincoln Riley's staff at USC.. "With over two decades of NFL experience, he will immediately bolster our staff as we continue our climb here at USC.
Ryan, who played defensive line at Southwestern Oklahoma State, began his coaching career in college as a graduate assistant for Western Kentucky in 1987. He moved on to the same role at Ohio State the following year, before landing on staff at Tennessee State , serving in a variety of assistant coaching roles. He left college for the Arizona Cardinals in '94, but returned as the defensive coordinator at Hutchinson Community College in '96.
Now, Ryan is back in college football for the first time since the '90s, and will try and help elevate a USC defense that took strides under Lynn in '24, as Riley attempts to get the program back on track. The Trojans went from
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