USC Trojans Head Coach Lincoln Riley Discusses New Coaching Position Role.

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00:00On the theme of tight ends today, Coach Savage, how's it been like working with him in his first year here?

00:04He's done a great job. He has. That's not an easy position to come in here and coach.

00:08We're both working with our inside receivers and our tight ends, and he's acclimated to the staff well.

00:14He and Coach Simmons are working really well together.

00:18That group, along with Spencer Jones, has done a really good job helping bring those guys along

00:23because there's definitely some crossover, and there's times where Coach Savage is coaching outside guys

00:27and times where Coach Simmons is coaching inside guys or we're all coaching tight ends.

00:31I mean, the way we do it, there's a lot of carry over there, and so he's meshed well.

00:37He's a good recruiter. He's got great connections and great relationships in this area,

00:42which is obviously very, very important to us.

00:45He's brought a lot of energy and a lot of expertise to the group.

00:48With the director of analytics being announced last week, what role will that hire play?

00:53How will that help the program?

00:54Yeah, that one's going to be a little bit more involved in the personnel roster management recruiting side.

01:02We have some folks that do some work for us analytics-wise in terms of football and game analytics

01:08and opponent studies and all of that, which are pretty mainstream right now in college football.

01:15But this was part of the vision when Chad and I first talked about him coming there,

01:19of continuing to build out that piece of it because there's certainly an analytical piece

01:24and viewpoint that you can gain when you're constructing a roster.

01:29And so having the people that can help execute that vision are important,

01:32and this was another big step in that direction.

01:34I didn't think so.