Ex-Arizona Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury will join the staff at USC in order to coach quarterbacks under Lincoln Riley, according to multiple reports.
"Lincoln has been looking for ways to explore getting better," a source with knowledge of the situation told ESPN."Lincoln is 100% focused on doing everything he can to make his team better, and this is an example of it."in his first season with the Trojans.
While Riley’s offense thrived, the defense struggled, finishing near the bottom of the FBS in yards allowed per game . Arizona head coach Kliff Kingsbury before the Falcons game on Jan. 1, 2023, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.On Saturday, Riley spoke highly of his defense as the Trojans wrapped up its 11th spring practice.
"Defensively last year there was a little bit of a sense of you had your handful of really good players and then there was too much of a gap between those guys and everybody else," Riley explained, per the Trojans website."Whereas, now that you've got some really good outstanding individual players, but the gap is closed, and because of that they have more competition, more depth.
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