Entering early signing day, Lincoln Riley has only six transfers committed to the Trojans after addressing last year’s needs heavily via the transfer portal
As he walked off the Coliseum field following USC’s win over Notre Dame, head football coach Lincoln Riley had a line of people waiting for him. Not fans, not donors, not administrators waiting to congratulate him.
A year ago, Riley was in a different position. As the new coach at USC, Riley and his staff did not have relationships with many of the top high school recruits they would like to join them in Los Angeles. Riley settled for nine high school commits, many of whom he recruited at Oklahoma, while relying primarily on the transfer portal to enhance USC’s roster.
Some of these recruits still carry ties to Riley’s Oklahoma tenure; five-star Los Alamitos quarterback and receiver duo Malachi Nelson and Makai Lemon both flipped from the Sooners to USC after Riley’s move west. But many, like four-star offensive tackle Elijah Paige of Arizona and four-star cornerback Maliki Crawford of Oxnard are signs of new in-roads the USC staff is making on this side of the country.
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