The Sooners' athletic director pulled back the curtain a little on his former football football coach and perhaps shed light on why he went to USC.
Lincoln Riley won't admit it, but Sooner Nation has long believed one of the major reasons he picked up and went to USC so suddenly is because he didn't want to do battle in the SEC.
"I will tell you without reservation," Castiglione said, "every coach we talked to was excited. And, you know what? The ones that weren't, aren't here any more."
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