The news conference to introduce Lincoln Riley as USC’s head coach on Monday was so full of grandiosity, athletics director Mike Bohn actually uttered the following words without even a hint of irony:
“It was never our goal to change the landscape of college football with one of the biggest moves in the history of the game, but we did exactly that.”
Bohn’s perch atop the mountain of coaching search bravado lasted approximately two hours.
Because for all the talk coming out of L.A. about shifting the paradigm of the sport by hiring Riley, LSU pulling Brian Kelly out of Notre Dame one-upped it in a manner that is even more shocking for an industry whose alarm bells should now be fully blaring.