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The Next Round

Connor O'Gara (5/12/25)

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🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

- 40 in 40 Countdown starts Tuesday! Who just missed your CFB Top 40? We show you the next 10

- Surprising Power 4 Teams with 0 votes in our fan poll?

- Could QBs be the reason for these teams having down years?

- Kalen DeBoer's family celebrates a bug achievement over the weekend!

- Ole Miss QB Austin Simmons takes over Lane Kiffin's offense at age 19 with a college degree.

- Would USC fire Lincoln Riley if they could get out of his contract?

- Urban Meyer has harsh penalty suggestion for NCAA

- NFL Schedule release excitement

- Should College Basketball go to 4 Quarters instead of 2 halves?

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0:00.0

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0:15.1

Connor O'G., of Saturday down south, and he's filling up your offseason, 103 days to week zero.

0:22.9

Connor, welcome to the show, man, and you're doing a lot of lists.

0:26.2

But let me ask you first.

0:27.4

I saw Bruce Feldman, Stuart Mandel at the Athletic in their podcast say that an anonymous AD Blue Blood, Blue Blood AD said,

0:36.2

if they could get out of Lincoln Riley's contract, they'd

0:39.6

gladly fire him. If you were grading Lincoln Riley at USC now, classic A to F, what grade do you

0:46.4

give Lincoln Riley with the SoCal Trojans? A D? It's the worst contract in America.

0:59.0

And I did a ranking of this about a month ago, and I had it at one.

1:02.9

I had Mike Norvella to go listen to Saturday Down South Podcasts for the rest of it.

1:07.8

But it's a contract that they can now get out of with cause.

1:11.9

They can fire him with cause and not have to pay that buyout.

1:14.7

Now, I don't know what that lawsuit would look like because that would be inevitable with tens of billions of dollars on the line.

1:17.4

But Matt Hayes wrote about this for USA Today, and it's a great point.

1:20.8

This is an issue that came to the forefront during last season.

1:24.5

He violated the NCAA rule against analysts, and he had improper use

1:30.5

of analysts before that basically got wiped off the table. He was doing that early on in his time

1:36.5

at USC, and he got popped for that. And so that's considered a violation of NCAA rules,

1:42.7

and you can fire him with cause. Now, do I think that USC

1:47.1

wants to instantly go back on a nine figure investment into Lincoln Riley? No, I don't. But

1:54.7

it's a very unique set of circumstances. I don't know how much resistance they would get if they tried to do that, oh, say, like, two or three years from now.

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