Most recently, he attended a Garth Brooks concert in Kansas City. "Oh, no doubt," Wood said Thursday night. We make it a point to, at least at some point during the day, see him face to face. I am a Haskell Indian Nations University graduate. The first quarterback Riley ever coached was none other than USC offensive coordinator Graham Harrell. 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. 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. After all, Muletrain isn't 60 Minutes. The expectations for a quick rebuild will be ever-present, trumping any old loyalties. Will Oklahoma fare better or worse in 2017 season? Watch film with intensity, remember so much about the film, most kids would not remember. 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. "Now we are Oklahoma fans because Lincoln is closer. Riley is pure Muleshoe. It was so sudden, Graves says. Growing up here, Ellis says, it often felt like you were insulated from the ails of the outside world. He was brought up in Muleshoe after all, raised with its good Christian values. Richards also knows the talent that has come out of the program, like Riley brothers Lincoln and Garrett. 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. Maybe even an astronaut. So when they hear insults hurled his way from Oklahoma, where the pettiness extended this week all the way to the state Senate, they spring quickly to his defense. He took the whip smart but physically limited quarterback aside and asked him to be a student assistant coach. 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. As is custom, Leal's Mexican Restaurant on West American Boulevard, is packed by noon as pickup trucks clog the dusty parking lot in the shadow of a grain elevator skyline. certain: Neither Lincoln nor Garrett wanted to follow their father into the cotton warehouse business. You can cancel at any time. Riley will have no shortage of talented quarterbacks to evaluate right here in his new backyard. Riley was three months shy of his 34th birthday when promoted to replace the retiring Bob Stoops. Lincoln has a photographic memory, and when I say that, I really mean it.. Texas Tech coach Mike Leach saw enough in him to recruit him as a walk on, but it wasnt too long during his time in Lubbock before Riley moved into a student assistant role. Head Boys Powerlifting Coach Jaxon Lee. CALL. USC coach Lincoln Riley remains a celebrated figure in the Muleshoe High football program. 33 years old, due to turn 34 early in the Sooners' season, and Riley was atop one of the greatest college football peaks there is. Deep on the dusty plains of West Texas, where grain silos line the sparse landscape and a dry breeze blows loose tufts of cotton across U.S. Route 84, a stretch of railroad runs along a lonely highway. Head Boys Track Coach Aaron Simon. Rileys coaching success has been anchored by a spread-it-out, fast-paced attack. He got an early start, Leach told the Tulsa World last month. Theres an intense sense of pride. Muleshoe Football History Previous Seasons All-Time Roster 2022-23 ( 36 players) Head Coach: Reyes, Nic ( Sr.) Martens, Nathan ( So.) Riley is a quarterback whisperer, and Southern California is a five-star quarterback assembly line. In 2018, Kyler Murray, a highly recruited transfer from Texas A&M, stepped in for Mayfield and earned his own Heisman and playoff appearance. But the rest of Muleshoe moves at a crawl. It can be backbreaking work. Jeremiah Barron struggled with injuries last season, but also has the potential to be a versatile player for Muleshoe. With him, that hasnt been forgotten.. He raced through his homework as soon as he got to the house simply so he could get back to football as quickly as possible, his mother recalled. We was driving over a Country where 36 years before as a boy 18 years old I had helped drive a bunch of cattle from that very place to Western Kansas, and there wasent a house or a chicken in a whole county. Muleshoe will be Richards first athletic director and head football coaching position. "Didn't see eye-to-eye with the coach," Mike Riley said. No telling if the city founders had any inkling the name might itself become a celebrity of sorts. Muleshoe Sports Net Retweeted. You can also view his personality page at newsok.com/berrytramel View Comments "Everybody in town knows him," she said. I cannot wait to get this thing going. He introduced his fianc, the head softball coach at Flour Bluff. Muleshoe, Texas might see it a little differently. Harrell told The Times, Really Lincoln was the first person that taught me Mike Leachs offense. He always has. Things got so bad that during Mike Riley's sophomore year. "But he was the kind of athlete you wanted running the show. Learn how this Muleshoe High School student is connecting with coaches in TX and nationwide. No matter how savvy the journalist, the decision to eliminate one of the town's two traffic lights has a newsy shelf life. A newspaper article from the Clovis News Journal about USC coach Lincoln Riley during his high school days is on display at his parents home in Muleshoe, Texas. Good call. The rapid rise of Lincoln Riley, from small-town quarterback to one of the most promising football minds in America, is rooted deep in this arid soil. The Mules are set to kickoff the 2021 football team on Friday night by hosting Sundown. Muleshoe residents gather for a livestock auction featuring sheep, hogs and goats. Riley had instant success at East Carolina, and drew job opportunities from four schools. But I think its a wonderful move.. "It runs how long it needs to," Rennels said. 4 min read. Still, Lincoln Riley grew up loving the Mules and football, in general. Copyright 2019 KCBD. ", Three Oklahoma stars to keep an eye on in 2017 season, Watch for these three Oklahoma players to have breakout seasons in 2017. The older he got is when I was more impressed with him. He was telling me about some other opportunities that were in the foresight of his career. Everyone's a hero in a small town, Wood said. Every time we get steaks and have friends over, they ask, Where did you get these knives? Always my wife will say, The Rileys bought them for us as a wedding gift. He tells me to come and visit him. Im not a big Longhorn fan right now, thats for sure.. A look at what Lincoln Rileys USC team could look like come the 2022 season. Atwood, who was one of the four, recalls that the boys were caught as soon as they descended the water tower. I remember wed be playing football in the yard and hed be drawing up plays and things, his lifelong friend and former Texas Tech roommate, Jeff King, said during a 2015 interview with the Tulsa World. He has other big ideas to move Muleshoe forward. I just knew there were things I wanted to try to do, he says. ", And so, Wood said, he hitched his career to, "Lincoln helped me get established and stay here," Wood said as he prepared for his 22nd season at the school. A lot of times when people get success at a young age, the humble factor tends to get put on the backburner, Simmons said. You're shaped by your experiences," Riley said. It has been assumed Harrell would move on next season, but, with the hire of his friend, it will certainly be interesting to see if Harrell remains a part of Rileys USC staff. Some people dont desire to be a head coach. But everyone agrees that the boy was uncommonly bright, even if he didnt take notes in class and sometimes skipped his homework. Conventional wisdom would say that you guys have been smallish-town people. A Muleshoe Mule is coaching the Sooners. Riley is a Muleshoe native who played quarterback and defensive end for the Mules football team in the late 1990s and early 2000s. A top-10 preseason ranking is expected and, last week, the Sooners were predicted to win their third consecutive Big 12 championship. But truth be told, Horsley never really was an integral thread in the town's fabric. Seems that back when Riley. His immediate retirement plan is . MULESHOE The Muleshoe football team found itself trailing the visiting Brownfield Cubs 23-12 with 22 seconds remaining in the first half when Mules coach Jason Richards thought about taking a . ", football hit an extended drought in the second half of the 20th century as coaches came and went with remarkable regularity. A few years later, Leach offered Riley a full-time job as a wide receivers coach. Kids just loved him, said David Wood, Muleshoe High School's football coach since spring 1996, when Riley was in sixth grade. 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There were multiple years in which we were 0-10 or 1-9, Atwood says. Most folks here seem just fine with that. Last year, Muleshoe named its football field after the longtime coach. In 1996, David Wood inherited a Muleshoe program that hadn't posted a winning record in 13 years. And, from those days as a young coach on Leachs staff, he hasnt let his own pride bog him down. Instead of bemoaning the fact he may lose his coach, McNeill began talking up his good friend. Mike Riley's series of tin-roofed warehouses on the northern fringe of Sudan can feel like ovens in the unforgiving West Texas sun. 1. 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. from the offensive staff at Canyon Randall. Will fame (and the fortune of a new $3.1 million annual contract) change Riley? He had a big following when he was coming through high school. No matter how Riley and the Sooners fare, the 105-year-old town of Muleshoe will be proud of him. There was some nervous energy, Riley says. He told his assistants, "We've got to keep him around. Each of the thousands of bales waiting to be loaded and shipped off weighs up to 500 pounds. Wood began with a program that fielded 22 players in a school of about 450 students. Notice something in common about the starting quarterbacks for Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Georgia entering this year? Some were convinced hed leave for Louisiana State. Like most everyone in town, restaurant owner Victor Leal has a favorite story about his favorite college football coach. Kind of overwhelmed. Muleshoe Mules Class: 3A Division I DCTF High School Ranking: NR Location: Muleshoe, Texas 2022 District 2-3A Division I Standings Team District Record Overall Record Next Opponent Shallowater Mustangs 4 - 0 10 - 2 Idle Bushland Falcons 3 - 1 11 - 2 Idle Muleshoe Mules 2 - 2 8 - 4 Idle Dalhart Wolves 1 - 3 5 - 6 Idle Both sides of the family were rooted in the farming business. "We were Tech fans here because it's close," Todd, the undertaker, announced. After three years of student coaching as an undergraduate and another as a graduate assistant, Leach, on Valentine's Day 2007, offered Riley. Riley already has plenty of quality head-coaching experience behind him, plus a hefty new contract approved by the school last month. When Lincoln attended Texas Tech, about 70 miles northwest of their home, the Rileys cheered for the Red Raiders. Everyone knows everyone, especially the Muleshoe native whose hiring as OUs coach created shockwaves throughout the college football world. 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. Richards tutored all four quarterbacks to all-district honors each of the six years he was offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. But it was no mirage. Muletrain, it should be noted, actually has been around since the late 1950s as a radio offering on a station that beamed it in from Clovis, N.M., 30 miles away. Georgia was one of them. The Riley family came before most other fixtures in Muleshoe, settling in town in the 1930s, not long after the town was incorporated. One asset he had last year that he is without this season is Mayfield, who was selected No. Column: 15 minutes of fame flies by. "He knew where every kid was supposed to be on every play," the coach said. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman. This is a compilation of Muleshoe high school football coach history. Lo and behold, we get there in the team meeting and Lincoln was told, Coach (Leach) isnt coaching this game and guess what? District 514 W. Ave G Muleshoe, Texas . This article originally ran on July 15, 2017. The people in Muleshoe say they didn't know Riley was headed for gridiron greatness. Once he decided on the coaching ranks, I figured he'd be climbing up the ladder pretty quickly.. 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. How can a West Texas boy go to L.A.? asked David Wood, who coached Riley at Muleshoe High. Its because he has an exceptional memory a photographic memory. In years past, he has made it back to Muleshoe every summer. As soon as Bob Stoops handpicked Riley to coach the quarterbacks and run the offense at Oklahoma in 2015, Riley began to prove what he had already shown at East Carolina in Conference USA: The guy knows how to motivate and prepare players at footballs most important position. Phone: 918-581-8391. Weve been busy, but weve enjoyed every day., I cover the University of Oklahoma football and mens basketball teams. After two seasons as the Head Football Coach/Athletic Director at Muleshoe High School, Lee Walker has been reassigned. He had a great knack for stuff like that.. Some speculate the injury mightve changed his trajectory, but the next season, Riley led Muleshoe to new heights as its quarterback anyway. In Muleshoe, no one needs any convincing. BREAKING after two seasons Muleshoe has reassigned HFC/AD Lee Walker, Muleshoe is open #txhsfb @dctf. But he happily embraced the familys other enduring legacy in town, as the third of four Rileys to quarterback the Muleshoe Mules. We are very excited after a lengthy process to introduce Jason Richards and his fianc Miss Angela Scott, said Curtis Preston, president of MISD Board of Trustees. I think you always have a chance at Oklahoma, but a lot of things have got to go well.". only a means to a football end. One person he depended on during this time was the late Donnie Duncan, a former Oklahoma athletic director. Here are five things every fan should know about the Trojans' new coach. When OU was searching for a new offensive coordinator in 2015, Stoops called McNeill for permission to speak to Riley. It's just that they have their own homegrown hero Oklahoma Sooners head coach Lincoln Riley. It was a Sunday afternoon game decided by a Hail Mary on the final play. "He wasn't a blue-chip athlete," Wood said. So how'd he end up as Oklahoma's headcoach? Not that the folks of Muleshoe don't respect Saban and what he's done for the Alabama Crimson Tide. Marilyn, his mother who grew up on a Muleshoe farm, and his father, Mike, who came from a family that operated cotton gins among other business ventures, graduated from the University of Texas. He was a computer on legs. Mike Riley, Lincolns father, was a Mules quarterback through some of those down years. "We'll see," Riley said. 877-845-6272. But Riley is still so young in the profession, and the longer he stayed in Norman, the more he risked the fan bases appreciation of him running dry. He was only a year or two older than me, but he knew the offense. Still, they somehow became aware of each other at basketball games while playing for rival high schools. On his 27th birthday, Riley called plays in a thrilling season-opening 51-49 win over Tulsa in 2010. He just knew the game. 12.8K views. All rights reserved. Riley, like many young coaches, has grown over the years. His grandfather, Claude, was the first, leading the Mules to an undefeated season in 1938. Soon after, Todd and Starla Ellis, who run the local funeral home, stopped by the Riley's table. But that was 1965, 15 years before the birth of Channel 6. Hell never forget his roots, Muleshoe Mayor Cliff Black said last week. Annie Rice/Avalanche-Journal Muleshoe's head football coach Jason Richards reacts to water being poured on him after the team's win against Brownfield in a bi-district playoff football. "Muleshoe -- don't you like just hearing it?". Riley, though, doesn't see his biggest 2018 task as replacing a Heisman winner. If you did they all hail from the Southland then Lincoln Riley probably did, too (and that list doesnt even include Mississippis Matt Corral, who is a possible Heisman Trophy finalist along with Alabamas Bryce Young and Ohio States CJ Stroud.). Its something that weve both always wanted, Caitlin Riley said. Oklahoma football head coach Lincoln Riley hugs quarterback Baker Mayfield (6) after the Sooners won the Big 12 title last December in Arlington, Texas. filled out recruiting questionnaires, his SAT and ACT scores made more impact with some coaches than his measurable football skills. 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. The pride of Muleshoe is the new head coach of Oklahoma football, and to paraphrase a certain Oklahoma humorist, no one ever met a Muleshoe man who didn't like Lincoln Riley. He was selling him to me, Stoops said at the time. He was just brilliant. As a freshman, he had a team-leading 221 receiving yards with a touchdown and will be expected to stay on the field for as long as he can to play on offense, defense and special teams. Of course, it will be up to Riley to decide if he wants a fresh start with the Trojans quarterback room. 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. And these former Longhorns fans are now supporters of the crimson and cream, as well as the University of Kansas, where their youngest son, Garrett, is the quarterbacks coach. Riley played quarterback and defensive end for Muleshoe High School before graduating in 2002. "As long as I could have kids like Lincoln, I knew I could compete.". Riley is a small-town guy, but clearly hes up for an adventure. Riley isnt known only as the OU head coach. 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. Lincoln knows exactly what the heck hes doing. Which brings us to our final topic . First-year coach Lincoln Riley and quarterback Baker Mayfield took center stage Monday, as Oklahoma had its turn at Big 12 Media Days in Frisc. New WIC On Wheels set to travel to Bailey, other counties, Republican candidate for District 19 primary has clear leadership goals. Mike and Marilyn Riley had to settle for the revelry generated in their hometown. For years, Magann's favorite Muletrain story focused on a local who grew tulip bulbs in a cotton field and shipped them to the Netherlands. , Victor marveled at how much time the older brother spent tutoring elementary school aged Garrett on the football field. Many of those lakes that Will Rogers saw in the 19th century have now dried out, but the area is prime for agriculture. They celebrated East Carolina University victories when their oldest son spent five seasons as the Pirates offensive coordinator. 1990S and early 2000s afternoon game decided by a spread-it-out, fast-paced.. 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