It should be an easy enough thing to do. Don’t talk down the team that beat you in a bowl game the year before. Probably avoid talking smack about their conference as well for that matter. But Oklahoma Coach Lincoln Riley made the mistake we too often see from young head coaches. He made an off the cuff comment about the Georgia Football team on the radio. Now that statement is going viral.
From OU head coach Lincoln Riley just now on @ESPNUonSiriusXM talking with me and @TaylorZarzour about how difficult it is to play defense in the Big 12:
“If you throw Georgia in the Big 12 every year there is no way they are a Top 5 defense in the country”
— Danny Kanell (@dannykanell) July 3, 2018
It should be no surprise to anyone that Danny Kanell is the guy pushing this narrative.