March 3, 2026
By Grant Grubbs, On3 Sports: In 2024, USC hired D’Anton Lynn to be its defensive coordinator. Lynn spent the past two seasons with the Trojans before accepting an offer this offseason to become Penn State‘s DC.
In a conversation on Trojans Live, USC head coach Lincoln Riley revealed he attempted to hire current defensive coordinator Gary Patterson back in 2024.
“I tried to hire him two years ago, and he wasn’t totally ready at that point,” Riley said. “Anybody that gets to know Gary, he’s an all-in or all-out type of guy; there’s no halfway. I think he was interested in the job two years ago, but I think just where he was, he wasn’t ready to commit to it. He knew he was gonna have to commit to it, and he was just in a very different place this time.
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