Lincoln, are you shocked that you've gotten this far without anybody asking you about all the rumors this week?

I'm just saying I'm going to ask you about it, so I might as well.

I mean, it's nonstop.

I mean, it's every day.

Hold up. Hold up, Gary.

I'm not going to be the next head coach at LSU.

Can I ask you?

Next question.

No, Lincoln Riley is not going to do the next head coach at LSU.

No lies detected because he's going to be the next head coach at USC.

Max Olson, were you prepared for this bombshell today?

You covered Bedlam last night.

You were there when he said that.

What happened?

Dude, I, where do we begin?

I mean, I literally just got home from Oklahoma.

I'm going on about an hour of sleep here,

so I'll try to be as coherent as possible. I was listening to your fine podcast at about three in the morning, driving to Tulsa. You know, I can't believe this is where we are today. Like, where do you start any? Like, I mean, honestly, like, bottom line, like, holy shit. Like, this is one of the craziest coaching flips we've ever seen, at least in sort of recent. I mean, look, I know Jimbo to A&M is like kind of a high standard, right, in terms of the last five, ten years. But do. I mean, and Jimbo won a natural title. That's what I was thinking. Come on. But this is, this feels bigger than that because we know that Jimbo was not pleased with Florida State at the time. And things were not good between. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Right. Things were not good between the parties. There was clear friction at the time. Yeah. I don't, I don't think there's any friction with Lincoln Riley in Oklahoma.

I think this is him choosing USC.

And so if you're not watching the video version of the podcast, which by the way you can find on YouTube, but if you're listening to it, our headline on this podcast is holy forking shirtballs, Lincoln Riley took the USC job. So clearly he thinks

Los Angeles is the good place compared to Norman. Now, the question is, why is that? Is it a desire

to live out there? Is it he doesn't want that SEC smoke that's coming when Oklahoma moves conferences?

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