Bill Plaschke: USC landing Lincoln Riley may be the most right coaching hire in school history
A home run. A half-court buzzer-beater. A game-winning Hail Mary. A hallelujah.
In the waning days of its worst football season in three decades, USC has pulled off the play of the year, defying all expectations, bucking conventional wisdom, making a miracle happen.
Did the Trojans really just hire Lincoln Riley? Pinch me.
Is their football team really going to be coached by arguably the brightest young football leader in the country? Revive me.
When USC fired embattled Clay Helton in the second week of September, Rick Caruso, the chairman of the USC board of trustees, promised to acquire "a world-class coach who will return the USC football program to the most competitive and highest levels of collegiate football."
Promise kept.
In a stunning Sunday
