When Lincoln Riley was first hired by USC, in the fall of 2021, he brought four staffers with him on the plane from Norman, Oklahoma to Los Angeles. Among those four was Bennie Wylie, who’d spent the previous four years as Riley’s strength and conditioning coach at Oklahoma.
After three more seasons working with Riley at USC, their collaboration came to an abrupt halt on Tuesday as Riley announced that USC is parting ways with Wylie, its director of football sports performance, three days after the Trojans wrapped their spring football practice.
Wylie‘s exit was “strictly a football decision,” according to a person familiar with the situation not authorized to speak publicly.