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VIDEO: Lincoln Riley Departs OKC With OU Staffers in Tow

The OU press corps shot video of several members of the Sooners staff catching a flight to Los Angeles.
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VIDEO: Lincoln Riley Departs OKC With OU Staffers in Tow
VIDEO: Lincoln Riley Departs OKC With OU Staffers in Tow

Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley, defensive coordinator Alex Grinch, wide receivers coach Dennis Simmons, strength coach Bennie Wylie and football operations director Clark Stroud left Will Rodgers World Airport in Oklahoma City en masse on Monday on a flight bound for Los Angeles.

Soon after Riley took the head coaching job at USC on Sunday, he apparently has began plans to bring as many OU staffers with him as possible.

Video of the group arriving at the airport was shot by SoonerScoop’s Eddie Radosevich along with Jason Kersey of The Athletic and Ryan Aber of The Oklahoman.

Aber posted the video on his Twitter account.

In addition to a mass of 4- and 5-star recruits who all decommitted from Oklahoma on Sunday (more are expected), it’s widely believed that Riley will pull more OU staffers with him to Southern Cal, including offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh and others.

This story will be updated throughout the day. 

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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