State of USC's football program: Overhaul complete. Now comes the 'critical' stage.
LOS ANGELES — Every aspect of Lincoln Riley's football program, every plan, every decision, every note from every season he's spent as a head coach is accessible from an iPad that he has at the ready.
At Oklahoma, any given season's notes might take up between 150 and 200 pages on Riley's iPad. His first campaign as USC's coach required, well … a few more.
"Year 1 here," Riley said this week, "I had over 600."
Riley spent some time poring through those notes since USC's Cotton Bowl loss, assessing from every angle how far the team had come in his first year. It was the first chance he'd had to do much reflecting, Riley said, and it became clear in that process how much he might've missed with all the macro changes being
