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Primed For the Moment, How OC Garrett Riley Plans to Make His Own Impression on SMU Football

UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas– Garrett Riley joked that he had been in Dallas for no more than five seconds before he hit the recruiting trail. In a new job, new offense and in a new program, the freshly minted SMU offensive coordinator ironically found a sanctuary from the chaos inside the bevy of Texas high school football programs he visited each day.

The reason for this was simple: he had been in those meeting rooms and coaches offices his entire life. Growing up in Texas, playing at Texas Tech and Stephan F. Austin as a quarterback and, finally, entering the coaching ranks, Riley has always been entrenched in Dallas high school football.