{"id":118834,"date":"2026-01-03T16:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T16:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/118834\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T16:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T16:44:11","slug":"letters-times-are-tough-for-lincoln-riley-and-his-trojans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/118834\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters: Times are tough for Lincoln Riley and his Trojans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix&#8221;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very obvious to this USC diehard fan, <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/usc\/story\/2025-12-30\/usc-football-suffers-shocking-loss-tcu-in-alamo-bowl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln Riley is not delivering<\/a> on his commitment to restore Trojans football to national prominence as head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Stop promising better results, hiring new assistant coaches, and commenting on the difficulty of the schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Riley, Do Your Job!<\/p>\n<p>J.R. Flores<br \/>Cypress<\/p>\n<p>After USC lost to unranked Texas Christian in the Alamo Bowl to finish a 9-4 season, coach Lincoln Riley said, \u201cThe arrow is pointing straight up.\u201d He apparently didn\u2019t receive a compass for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Nelson<br \/>Dana Point<\/p>\n<p>If USC plays again in the Alamo Bowl, the Trojans should bring their own officials. \u2019Nuf said.<\/p>\n<p>Lillian Marshall<br \/>Santa Monica<\/p>\n<p>After losing to TCU in overtime, the Trojans will always \u201cRemember the Alamo (Bowl).\u201d With that, the Men of Troy seem to break my heart every football season. Not playing Notre Dame anymore is sacrilegious. Last but not least, Lincoln Riley is an overrated head football coach. Fight On!<\/p>\n<p>Chris Sorce<br \/>Fountain Valley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix&#8221;&gt; It\u2019s very obvious to this USC diehard fan, Lincoln Riley is not delivering on his commitment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[40291,10951,11155,55762,55761,423,48,52,51,1415,1838,47,50,49,63,8062,11706,10947,11599,427,315],"class_list":["post-118834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bill-plaschke","tag-coach-sean-mcvay","tag-defense","tag-defensive-coordinator-chris-shula","tag-emmanuel-forbes","tag-game","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lakers","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-prediction","tag-ram","tag-rams","tag-seahawks","tag-team","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}