Lincoln Riley has been Oklahoma’s head coach for 19 months. It’s been quite a 19 months. Riley quickly became college football’s hottest coach this side of Dabo Swinney. Young. Sharp. Energetic. A quarterback whisperer for the ages.
Outside of not going for it on fourth down in the Rose Bowl’s first overtime and not taking the ball to start the Orange Bowl, Riley’s 19 months unassailable.
Then this week, Riley proved that he, too, is capable of being just another football coach who loses all sense of perspective.
In a cavalcade of major news Wednesday, reports arose that Riley and OU were blocking transferring quarterback Austin Kendall from being immediately eligible at West Virginia, Kendall’s apparent school of choice as a graduate transfer.