U40: Lincoln Riley tabs Alex Grinch to take over his defense

Oklahoma Sooners Unofficial 40

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🗓️ 4 January 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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About 15 minutes into the Choctaw Casino & Resort Unofficial 40 Bruce Feldman's report leaked out that Alex Grinch was set to be hired as Lincoln Riley's new defensive coordinator. So the pod turned into an emergency podcast quickly. We talk about the hiring of Alex Grinch and everything we know about OU's newest defensive coordinator. We also throw out some ideas for Grinch's new staff and our thoughts on who will be staying and going. It's also a huge week for recruiting news as Josh has been in Orlando and San Antonio for both All-American games. Jadon Haselwood is about to announce his college destination and Josh was around he and his potential future teammates all week. We break down what to watch for coming out of these practices and games. We also have a suggestion for Lincoln Riley to make his defensive staff a dominant one. The full rundown follows below: OPEN - We start the podcast knowing that a defensive coordinator could be announced at any moment 0:07:00 - Carey's big idea to add to the OU defensive staff with Alex Grinch 0:12:30 - Josh's time in Orlando, Theo Wease was great. 0:15:30 - Josh's thoughts on OU's defensive players in Orlando. 0:19:00 - Previewing the All-American Game on NBC 0:22:00 - The crew just finds out Alex Grinch is the new defensive coordinator. The crew breaks down the hire and how we got here. 0:26:20 - Eddie is now officially fired up about the idea of bringing Tony Gibson in here too 27:35 - Coaches who could be on the way out now 32:00 - Grinch was Riley's first choice. Golding became a fan favorite for nothing 0:36:10 - Is it even responsible to talk about this Kyler Murray stuff? 0:42:48 - The downfall of Facebook is ruining Twitter 0:49:25 - Is cleaning house the way to go on defense? 0:52:50 - Lincoln Riley set the table to make sure all the recruits are happy with this move and the loss of assistants 0:55:40 - A Bryce Youngquist tangent 1:02:30 - Is Bobby Evans coming back? The early departures discussed 1:08:30 - The importance of the defensive and offensive line coaches in college football now 1:12:50 - Jadon Haselwood's announcement Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	News team, assemble!
0:07.0	Assimble!
0:10.0	It's back and bigger than ever. It's the unofficial 40 from Sooner Scoop.com
0:20.4	presented by the Choctaw Casino and Resort in Durant.
0:24.0	Now, here's the entire sooner scoop crew,
0:28.0	Carrie, Josh, Eddie, and Bob.
0:34.0	All right, we are back.
0:35.0	It is another edition of the Unofficial 40 podcast right here on sooner scoup.com,
0:40.0	the sooner scoup podcast.
0:41.0	joined as always by the entire crew. Josh McQuishion joins us. a And who knows by the time we are even done with this show oh you can have a defensive
0:55.9	coordinator because it is going fast and furious in terms of Lincoln Riley
1:01.9	putting out eyeball emojies we've been kind of checking
1:04.1	into it last night and Josh let's start with you we kind of figured out last night
1:08.6	it doesn't appear that the eyeball emojies were for a recruit doesn't?
1:13.0	No and it doesn't and the thing as time goes on it only makes that more cemented in my mind like
1:19.8	if it was a recruit it wouldn't be this secretive there it wouldn't be this secretive.
1:23.2	It wouldn't be this hard to track down what's happened.
1:26.2	You know, commitments happen all the time.
1:28.8	Lincoln throws out this emoji all the time.
1:31.3	This is something bigger.
1:32.4	I don't know, like, you know, the only thing I thought
1:35.2	maybe it could be Justin Fields, you know, like I didn't make a lot of sense, but I thought
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