The talk show host said the former Sooners coach has been a 'disaster' at USC and said Riley 'ran away' from the SEC.
ESPN’s outspoken show host and voice of the SEC, Finebaum executed an all-time takedown of USC’s head coach this week during an appearance on “First Take.”
"I thought last year was one of the worst coaching jobs I've ever seen. Quite frankly ... I would've fired Lincoln Riley."Finebaum took the conversation back to 2021, when Riley was still coaching at Oklahoma and finished his OU tenure with two tepid road losses at Baylor and Oklahoma State before leaving the night after the loss in Stillwater.
Finebaum expounded on the idea that Riley’s departure from OU was a reaction to the Sooners joining the SEC five months earlier. Finebaum doubled down on the Trojans’ precipitous fall from 2022 to 2023, when Williams won the Heisman Trophy and guided USC to an 11-3 record and Pac-12 runner-up finish to an 8-5 record in 2023.
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