There are high expectations. "I really . McNeill, who accepted the head coaching position at East Carolina, hired Riley to be his offensive coordinator. Under Walkers leadership, the Mules went 1-19 over the two seasons. Most recently, he attended a Garth Brooks concert in Kansas City. Former Mule Jaxon Lee, an AP all-state first team lineman for the. Lo and behold, we get there in the team meeting and Lincoln was told, Coach (Leach) isnt coaching this game and guess what? Outside candidates. Soon after, Todd and Starla Ellis, who run the local funeral home, stopped by the Riley's table. His final game at Muleshoe and last as a quarterback in a competitive game was a senior-year loss in a state semifinal game at old Texas Stadium. Thats coming from a program last year (where) we had a sophomore that just got offers from OU, OSU and Texas A&M, Richards said of Flour Bluff offensive guard Johnny Dickson. ".. It's been hectic. From what I understand, Graves says, he wants to build his own program.. And then theres the part about replacing Bob Stoops. I certainly wont be afraid to do it here.. When Wood talks about Riley, it sounded like Lou Holtz, who a couple of months ago came through Oklahoma City and noted his innate ability to immediately see and comprehend the intricacies of football. Ive never been afraid to go against the grain if I felt like it was the best thing for the team, for the program. 866-495-5172 Already a member? Everyone's a hero in a small town, Wood said. Riley caught Wood's eye as a seventh-grader. Lincoln and I had many thoughts he prepared us that way. Years later, when asked what hed learned from Wood, Riley wouldnt hesitate to draw parallels to the situation he now steps into at USC. Going [to USC], hes obviously ready for that challenge. Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. They were married in 2007. It shaped who I am, Riley says. Fortunately, there is a simple, dependable, go-to staple for slow news cycles at Channel 6. Everybody is just so proud.". Mike and Marilyn Riley had to settle for the revelry generated in their hometown. Last year, Muleshoe named its football field after the longtime coach. He has deep roots here. Notice something in common about the starting quarterbacks for Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Georgia entering this year? A top-10 preseason ranking is expected and, last week, the Sooners were predicted to win their third consecutive Big 12 championship. Riley still has an itch to scratch when it comes to winning at the highest level of the sport and must feel he can reach the summit more easily from USC. in 1969, the Mules scored a single touchdown during the entire season. Muleshoe Football Coach History Mascot Mules Team Varsity 2022 Colors Black, White Coach N/A Address 514 W Ave G, Muleshoe, TX 79347 Overall 4-1 District 0-0 State (TX) Rank 488. But he did go to school there, walked on to the football team there, and when it became evident that he didn't have the skill to play quarterback there, transitioned to student assistant there. Registration is at 7:15 to 8:00 at the football field first session is for incoming . Muleshoes favorite son is now the youngest head coach in major college football. Oklahoma cap at lunch alongside Marilyn on Muleshoe's main drag. David Wood was Riley's high school football coach. Suddenly Muletrain was competing with SportsCenter for eyeballs. MULESHOE, Texas -- Magann Rennels has been on the job as a local television newshound for almost four decades. Even in the classroom, when the teacher was giving notes, he'd just soak it in. Great, great people. Many of the standards of the Southwest. Lincoln Riley Oklahomas new head football coach recently greeted everyone with a smile at Leals Restaurant off the main drag in Muleshoe, Texas. Garrett, six years younger than his brother, is currently the quarterbacks coach at, But on this Tuesday, the first day of August, Mike Riley is sporting a crimson. He has other big ideas to move Muleshoe forward. He had a big following when he was coming through high school. And sometimes he'd double back and explain to me what I was missing.". Its something that hes excited about. "Now we are Oklahoma fans because Lincoln is closer. Young kids look up to the varsity kids. From Muleshoe to Clemson, Riley carries on the principles of Mike. He keeps things pretty close to his sleeve, Garrett says. He was a defensive end as a sophomore, but took over the offense in his final two seasons which included one state semifinal finish. They embraced whats good for it. He was just more of a kid that soaked it all in. Riley is a Muleshoe native who played quarterback and defensive end for the Mules football team in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Though Riley had a coach's mind, Wood never saw him going into that profession, thinking that mind might be too good for coaching. As the young mayor explains, change often comes to town at a particularly cautious pace. "It's quite an accolade to say I was able to be a part of his life," Wood said. Leach took to introducing Riley, then 23, as the youngest full-time major college assistant coach in the country. Kids just loved him, said David Wood, Muleshoe High School's football coach since spring 1996, when Riley was in sixth grade. Muleshoe, just 22 miles from the New Mexico border, is home to the National Mule Memorial. For a routine follow-up, Riley mentored Alabama transfer Jalen Hurts during his graduate transfer season, and Hurts is now the starter for the Philadelphia Eagles. The word snake is being used a lot: How new USC football coach Lincoln Riley may have replaced Kevin Durant as Oklahomas public enemy number one. One person he depended on during this time was the late Donnie Duncan, a former Oklahoma athletic director. I had to explain everything to him only once. certain: Neither Lincoln nor Garrett wanted to follow their father into the cotton warehouse business. I just knew there were things I wanted to try to do, he says. filled out recruiting questionnaires, his SAT and ACT scores made more impact with some coaches than his measurable football skills. So how'd he end up as Oklahoma's headcoach? He could think on the field unlike anybody else, Wood said. 1. Questions? And then there are the obligatory obits about friends and neighbors. It's also home to two of the greatest offensive minds in college football. The two weeks since that decision have been a whirlwind in both Los Angeles and Muleshoe, even if the definition differs in both places. DW Rutledge. His exit left him stunned and, he admits, a bit disappointed. His grandfather Claude Riley, who is 97 and lives at the nursing home with his wife, Evelyn, 89, was a quarterback there, as well. In 1999, with Riley as a sophomore lineman, Wood began tinkering with a shotgun offense that called for more passing and demanded a quick-thinking triggerman. The Pecos and Northern Texas Railway companies laid the track here in 1913, cutting through this swath of Bailey County ranchland to connect the growing town of Lubbock to the border of New Mexico. Cattle ranching, dairy farming, wheat, cotton. Hes the person who has a spare second for those wanting to talk to him during visits home. Ask anyone in Muleshoe about Lincoln, whose first name is enough around these parts, and they swell with pride. According to a press release, while serving as offensive coordinator, Richards football program had a 51-21 record, including three regional semi-final appearances and two area championship appearances. As a junior in 2000 he helped the Mules reach the state semifinals, where they lost to Forney at the Dallas Cowboys' old home Texas Stadium in Irving. Hes just an athletic big kid. Pride Football camp starts Monday morning. He played out the year on the defensive line instead. Riley played quarterback and defensive end for Muleshoe High School before graduating in 2002. Kind of overwhelmed. Still, Lincoln Riley grew up loving the Mules and football, in general. Back in the early 1980s, Horsley starred on television as Texas oilman Matt Houston, who doubled as a private investigator. Im fired up. A high school portrait of USC football coach Lincoln Riley hangs on the wall of his parents home in Muleshoe, Texas, on Thursday, June 25, 2015. Life is too short, so dont be afraid to go for it., USC coach Lincoln Riley on leaving his small hometown of Muleshoe, Texas. "He had great math skills, intelligence and a photographic memory, stuff that you just don't see.". Herald-Times. Which brings us to our next topic . He can be heard Monday through Friday from 4:40-5:20 p.m. on The Sports Animal radio network, including FM-98.1. Seeing the Mules football program flourish while learning from his coach, Eric Roanhaus, New Mexicos winningest football coach, added to Richards desire to become a mentor in the football ranks. He inspired the whole town, Wood said. "But he was the kind of athlete you wanted running the show. Junior High Coordinator Ross Johnson. Garrett Riley is taking over the Clemson offense after winning the Broyles Award as the nation's top assistant this past season. 2023 www.lubbockonline.com. blockbuster came in June when Muleshoe's own Lincoln Riley, whose parents Mike and Marilyn still live in Rennels' neighborhood, was named the football coach at the University of Oklahoma soon after the unexpected resignation of Bob Stoops. Wood said that Riley got the Mules coaching staff into a meeting with Leach before the 2008 season, and then helped the coaches install the Red Raiders spread offense. "Weather here is always important because this is an agricultural community," said Rennels, 74, sounding every bit a schoolmarm lecturing a student just off the turnip truck. ", Riley was named the offensive coordinator at Oklahoma in 2015 after prepping for the position at East Carolina, , his first stop away from Texas Tech, his high school math teacher Debbie Conner told, In Mrs. Conner's honors math class, Riley, routinely dissected problems using shortcuts she never considered and. Riley is pure Muleshoe. After three years of student coaching as an undergraduate and another as a graduate assistant, Leach, on Valentine's Day 2007, offered Riley. Riley played briefly for Texas Tech, but spent more time there coaching than playing. Hes gonna make the Trojans a powerhouse again.. My daddy would roll over in his grave if I said I was gonna root for USC, Sam Whalin, the schools retired maintenance director, says with a laugh. A few years later, Leach offered Riley a full-time job as a wide receivers coach. Lincoln Riley's father doesn't seem to be a big talker. I knew he'd be the best next coach at a major Division I school. "Everybody loves him. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Riley already has plenty of quality head-coaching experience behind him, plus a hefty new contract approved by the school last month. Born in Muleshoe, he was raised and schooled primarily in Colorado. . Mike Riley, Lincoln's father and a lifelong Muleshoe resident, said he didn't even know his son was interested in coaching until his senior year of high school. Riley started in the fifth grade, both officially and in backyard games with neighborhood children. Their hearts belonged to the Longhorns until sons Lincoln and Garrett went off to college at Texas Tech. Riley is already having huge success recruiting Southern California. Mike Riley calls Muleshoe just like a lot of small towns. But I don't know that I would've gone this way without having the great experience back home.". As a senior, he led the Mules of Muleshoe, a town of about 5,000 people, to the state semifinals. A coincidence my step dad is from Muleshoe, and small town doesnt really do it justice. No matter what he decided to go into, whether it was coaching or science or math, whatever he wanted to do, I knew he'd be going somewhere and it would be pretty special. How could she possibly have known nefarious souls would steal the portable, outdoor air-conditioning system down at the nursing home necessitating an emergency fundraiser; or just how. All rights reserved. Riley is a small-town guy, but clearly hes up for an adventure. Sure, maybe they wouldnt have chosen California as their favorite sons next step. 4:13. Anyhow, Riley wanted to be a college quarterback, but a shoulder dislocation kept him from reaching that potential. Wood, determined to put an end to the exodus, noticed a seventh-grader playing at the junior high with "lots [of] football smarts" if not lots of blue-chip skills. The Wallace Theatre sits on Muleshoes Main Street. With him, that hasnt been forgotten.. Not that the folks of Muleshoe don't respect Saban and what he's done for the Alabama Crimson Tide. Lincoln, theyll tell you, couldve been anything. "As long as I could have kids like Lincoln, I knew I could compete.". Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley answers a question during a news conference in August. a job as an assistant coach who worked with receivers. Muleshoe Journal Correspondent. After watching Riley try to make it as a walk-on quarterback, the coach offered Riley a student assistant coaching job. A doctor. Jeremiah Barron struggled with injuries last season, but also has the potential to be a versatile player for Muleshoe. The Sooners coach listens to many different genres. As a quarterback, Wood says, his intellect was his greatest asset. Former Mules quarterback Lincoln Riley . He looks back fondly on his upbringing in West Texas and the lessons it taught him. Although rocket science was not to be, he considered pursuing his mother's dream that he study to become a pharmacist. Some speculate the injury mightve changed his trajectory, but the next season, Riley led Muleshoe to new heights as its quarterback anyway. But I think its a wonderful move.. No telling if the city founders had any inkling the name might itself become a celebrity of sorts. Former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach saw that same attribute in Riley. It wont be long, Wood assures. 1 overall by the Cleveland Browns in last April's NFL Draft. And mirages! Alcohol sales were first allowed in the town just three years ago and to this day some respected folks still remain wary of setting foot inside the bar. Good call. Thats a whole nother world than what he grew up in, said Alice Liles, who taught Rileys advanced English class and authored a book on the town. "He knew where every kid was supposed to be on every play," the coach said. Everybody is so supportive. Head coach Jason Richards hopes that preseason growth can be turned into regular-season success. Later, when his younger brother, Garrett, quarterbacked the team, Wood consulted with Lincoln about their offense. CALL. In addition to coaching the Mules to their only state championship in 2008, David Wood put up a. All rights reserved. "That's a good question," he said. We were so close in age, it became a friendship, but he was a friend I respected. We were on the way to San Antonio and the bowl game and we were obviously thinking we were going to have our normal role at that Alamo Bowl game, said Simmons, who coached wide receivers at the time. USC sent shock waves through the sports world when it hired Oklahomas Lincoln Riley as its football coach. Riley will have no shortage of talented quarterbacks to evaluate right here in his new backyard. And maybe after a few recruiting classes keeping Southern California talent at home Riley will be in a better position to take down the goliaths of the SEC by facing them in the playoff rather than tussling with them during the entire regular season. What should student loan borrowers do while waiting for Supreme Court forgiveness ruling? Garrett Riley, Lincolns brother, said he had a little bit of an instinct that something like that may happen. But even he learned his brother took the USC job via social media. Like most everyone in town, restaurant owner Victor Leal has a favorite story about his favorite college football coach. The crowd roared. After two seasons as the Head Football Coach/Athletic Director at Muleshoe High School, Lee Walker has been reassigned. We just saw even at a young age he was pretty special for a 3A school, Wood said. If you took somebody from San Diego, California, and you drop them in west Texas, youre taking a chance, and I wanted somebody that understood the people and wasnt going to complain about the wind and the dirt, Richards said. He once played quarterback for the Muleshoe. A Muleshoe Mule is coaching the Sooners. Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley already has made inroads in Southern California football recruiting, which should help him bolster USCs talent pool. One newcomer Richards is excited about is Nic Reyes, a 5-foot-11, 275-pound sophomore offensive lineman. As of September 2019, Harrell and Riley kept in touch often via text message. Duncan was receiving a National Football Foundation Legacy Award in New York City at the same time and Riley wanted to be by his mentors side instead. Ive got to do my best to take advantage of the situation the continuity that was kept on so many different levels: players, staff, so many different people, with how this (coaching transition) went down, Riley said. Wood said he envisioned his quarterback working someday for NASA. Riley showed the coaches just enough that he was invited to join the team in January. A decade later, Lincoln Riley's new contract at Oklahoma calls for a guaranteed $3.1 million a year for five years. But as much as he relished playing the game, Riley suspected his playing days were over when he passed on small school college football to attend Texas Tech. Muleshoe football went from one of the worst programs in the state to one of the best. He was a computer on legs. The Mules only return one all-district player in wide receiver Irvin Torres. if(typeof ez_ad_units != 'undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[320,50],'easternnewmexiconews_com-box-2','ezslot_3',128,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-easternnewmexiconews_com-box-2-0'); Oklahoma University head football coach Lincoln Riley raises the Big 12 Championship trophy after the Sooners beat TCU 41-17 in the conference title game at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas last December. HomeDirectoryPhotosAboutContactAdvertise. The following season, Muleshoe went 15-0 and won its only state championship. Mules, just as his father Mike had done three decades earlier. Anytime they wanted to bounce something off of someone, Donnie was the person that they talked to , I think it was their mutual love and admiration for college football. This article originally ran on July 15, 2017. In 2018, Kyler Murray, a highly recruited transfer from Texas A&M, stepped in for Mayfield and earned his own Heisman and playoff appearance. They were some complex plays as complex as you can be at 11.. You can also view his personality page at newsok.com/berrytramel View Comments While Riley stayed loyal to McNeill, he also wanted to make sure his next jump was the proper one. Athletic Director/Head Football Coach Jason Richards. You are the OC (offensive coordinator).. He was a walk-on quarterback at Texas Tech in the spring and summer of 2003 before starting his coaching career as a student assistant there under head coach Mike Leach for three seasons (2003-05), working with the offense. Every Friday night that season, Muleshoe shut down. But I have to also understand that my expectations of simply doing the best I can for this program, thats going to be higher than anyone else can place on me or this program. I just wanted to build on people that wanted to be in Muleshoe and want to get things going again.. Copyright 2019 KCBD. That was the best the town had ever done, Wood said, until Lincoln., In West Texas, Muleshoes team was for decades a source of disappointment. Rogers returned in 1934, an international celebrity. He told his assistants, "We've got to keep him around. "We'll see," Riley said. COURTESY, Grandpa Claude, father Mike and Lincoln Riley, Lincoln and Caitlin Riley are from small Texas towns separated by a 45-minute drive. The town wanted to be good. "But he had a really good memory, was really good at math and he was very competitive. One asset he had last year that he is without this season is Mayfield, who was selected No. Whatever he chose to do, hed be something special. A lot of the values I hope I still carry today were carried from my parents and people in that town. Thats what you grew up in, thats what your daughters are used to, Riley says. 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