Riley showed the coaches just enough that he was invited to join the team in January. Editor's note: This story was originally published on August 10, 2017. When I hired him, Lincoln was the youngest full-time assistant in the country, but he had been with me as a student assistant and a GA for about six years and did a tremendous job, so I had no reservation about hiring him.. "Yeah, I think that's fair to say," he said. I just knew there were things I wanted to try to do. Richards tutored all four quarterbacks to all-district honors each of the six years he was offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Whatever he chose to do, hed be something special. In West Texas, Muleshoe's team was for decades a source of disappointment. Muleshoe residents gather for a livestock auction featuring sheep, hogs and goats. Really? 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. Everybody is just so proud.". No telling if the city founders had any inkling the name might itself become a celebrity of sorts. The two weeks since that decision have been a whirlwind in both Los Angeles and Muleshoe, even if the definition differs in both places. The Mules only return one all-district player in wide receiver Irvin Torres. This is a 33-year-old who grew up in a rural west Texas town known for its unique name, faith, family and football. Few believed it at first. He bought us steak knives with Harrell engraved in them, Harrell said. But Riley is able to handle the job while spending time with his daughters, Sloan and Stella. A look at what Lincoln Rileys USC team could look like come the 2022 season. Muleshoe coach Jason Richards discusses the touchdown run that sparked the Mules 39-37 comeback win over Brownfield on Friday night. Riley started in the fifth grade, both officially and in backyard games with neighborhood children. Few will ever forget Riley leading the Mules at Texas Stadium. Later, when his younger brother, Garrett, quarterbacked the team, Wood consulted with Lincoln about their offense. Ryan Kartje is the USC beat writer at the Los Angeles Times. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft during back-to-back seasons. Hes got size, hes got a great family.. Riley began his coaching career at Roosevelt High School in Lubbock, Texas as the team's quarterbacks coach and passing game assistant. As of September 2019, Harrell and Riley kept in touch often via text message. 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One is USC head coach. MULESHOE, Texas -- Magann Rennels has been on the job as a local television newshound for almost four decades. A statue of Old Pete stands near Muleshoes only stoplight and celebrates the role of the mule in Texas history. 1. While Riley stayed loyal to McNeill, he also wanted to make sure his next jump was the proper one. Mike Riley still works in agriculture; he's run a cotton warehouse for years, which means he's been able to get to Norman for a few games each of the last two years, but when the harvest arrives in November, Saturday's a work day. He took the whip smart but physically limited quarterback aside and asked him to be a student assistant coach. He was brought up in Muleshoe after all, raised with its good Christian values. Oklahoma cap at lunch alongside Marilyn on Muleshoe's main drag. Which brings us to our next topic . Pride Football camp starts Monday morning. Wood always saw the mind of a coach when Riley was one of his players. . Theres an intense sense of pride. 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. Evaluate Jason Florez's football recruiting profile. 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. "He knew where every kid was supposed to be on every play," the coach said. Clovis was district and state champion in 2001. Former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach saw that same attribute in Riley. They were some complex plays as complex as you can be at 11.. No one thought it was possible, Riley remembers. Over the past six years, the offense averaged 38 points per game and amassed an average of more than 400 yards per game. Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley talks with his players during a game against Oklahoma State on Saturday. Today, he contends that their prank, now a part of town lore, was delayed payback for Friona painting the previous seasons score all over Muleshoes own weight room. Once he decided on the coaching ranks, I figured he'd be climbing up the ladder pretty quickly.. I am a Haskell Indian Nations University graduate. But Ellis knows patience is an important part of his job description. Rileys coaching success has been anchored by a spread-it-out, fast-paced attack. Not that the folks of Muleshoe don't respect Saban and what he's done for the Alabama Crimson Tide. "It's quite an accolade to say I was able to be a part of his life," Wood said. filled out recruiting questionnaires, his SAT and ACT scores made more impact with some coaches than his measurable football skills. The whole town packed into the high school gym that day, glowing as Riley spoke. Aaron Simon, an Angelo State University graduate whos been coaching with Richards for the past nine years, will be the Mules offensive line and associate head coach, while Portales, New Mexico native Chris Mosier the step-brother of former Mule standout receiver Kyle Atwood was hired as the offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. Watch film with intensity, remember so much about the film, most kids would not remember. Wood began with a program that fielded 22 players in a school of about 450 students. ", 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. Some people dont desire to be a head coach. As you might expect, Runnels, who could double as a one-woman Chamber of Commerce, has a special sweet spot for Riley. the after-school healthy snack program would be? Lincoln has a photographic memory, and when I say that, I really mean it., David Wood, Lincoln Rileys football coach at Muleshoe High. They embraced whats good for it. He was all for it.. Head Cross Country/Head Girls Powerlifting Coach . But like L.A., they have complete faith now that Lincoln Riley will deliver. But he chose football, and his immediate success with three College Football Playoff semifinal appearances in his first three years as head coach at Oklahoma has become an inextricable part of the towns story, one theyre more than happy to share, even if most cant quite reckon with the latest twist. CALL. Others speculate he wanted nothing to do with the Southeastern Conference. October 1, 2022, 12:22 AM. They are high-integrity people who recruit the right way and have a unique ability to work with players on and off the field.. "I guess probably once I started to think about going to college, I enjoyed the game so much in high school that I felt it would be part of my life some way, some how. Overnight, the youngest head coach in major college football hailed from the West Texas speck on the map that fell into Channel 6's market. BREAKING after two seasons Muleshoe has reassigned HFC/AD Lee Walker, Muleshoe is open #txhsfb @dctf. In a ceremony held Jan. 28 in the Muleshoe High School Library, Jason Richards signed on as the new head football coach/athletic director for the Muleshoe Mules. 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 . 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. 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. "To see him grow and develop into what he's become, it's pretty remarkable. Two decades later, folks in town are still happy to relive that run through the state playoffs. I think you always have a chance at Oklahoma, but a lot of things have got to go well.". Wood said he has no plans to coach in the future. Muleshoe Football History Previous Seasons All-Time Roster 2022-23 ( 36 players) Head Coach: Reyes, Nic ( Sr.) Martens, Nathan ( So.) Im sure hes got a pretty nice home now, making what hes making., Its possible that Riley has been keeping up with USC from afar given his affinity for Harrell. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. The only passing reference to L.A. found here comes from a novelty Rodeo Drive sign behind the bar at Rodeo, Muleshoes lone watering hole. Muleshoe football went from one of the worst programs in the state to one of the best. Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley yells from the sideline during a game. You're shaped by your experiences," Riley said. But everyone here trusts Lincoln. Ive never been afraid to go against the grain if I felt like it was the best thing for the team, for the program. Theres no shortage of small-town sleuths here still wondering aloud why Riley up and left the Sooners seemingly overnight. 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. When he announced it was Oklahoma, I thought, that would be a good place for him to be a head coach, too.'. Wes Wood has hit the ground running, already meeting with the coaching staff and some of his new players. My dad worked me enough there throughout the years that he broke me on that, Riley joked during an interview with The Times last week. J. Brady McCollough is a sports enterprise reporter for the Los Angeles Times, focusing on national college football and basketball topics. He just had natural instincts.". Copyright 2019 KCBD. There are high expectations. Some speculate the injury mightve changed his trajectory, but the next season, Riley led Muleshoe to new heights as its quarterback anyway. It would be a challenge, Simmons said, but one that the then-26-year-old coach accepted and conquered. Kyle Atwood, a close friend and Rileys leading receiver in high school, expects USC flags to be flying in town soon enough. Mike and Marilyn Riley have lived in Muleshoe all of their lives. He wasnt afraid to change things up, to do things different from what had been done there. Everybody is so supportive. Mike and Marilyn returned home from Austin soon after graduation and eventually took over family-owned cotton warehouses in neighboring Sudan. As the young mayor explains, change often comes to town at a particularly cautious pace. David Wood was Riley's high school football coach. Riley is a Muleshoe native who played quarterback and defensive end for the Mules football team in the late 1990s and early 2000s. "He wasn't a blue-chip athlete," Wood said. Muleshoe always supports their own.. But when they worked there during high school, the boys learned valuable life lessons such as time management and the importance of every worker in the chain. In 2017, once Riley took the reins from Stoops, Mayfield won the Heisman Trophy while leading the Sooners to the College Football Playoff semifinals. The town is quiet on a recent Saturday afternoon as Colt Ellis, Muleshoes 31-year-old mayor, locks up at the family funeral home and leads an out-of-town visitor on a tour in his pick-up truck. ", 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. 866-495-5172 Already a member? "I thought he was more in the realm of NASA or something like that," Wood said. The Muleshoe, Texas, city limit sign is seen in the hometown of new USC coach Lincoln Riley in 2015. 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. Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. Muleshoe, which would become the seat of Bailey County, then was just a few houses, a school and a cemetery. 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. He'd dissect defenses really quickly. The Wallace Theatre sits on Muleshoes Main Street. Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley, center, talks with quarterback Caleb Williams (13) and quarterback Spencer Rattler (7) before a game against Iowa State on Nov. 20. Its probably one of the most supportive communities youll find in the state of Texas, said Richards, who had been Flour Bluffs offensive coordinator for the past five seasons. USC coach Lincoln Riley is introduced as the Trojans new head football coach at the Coliseum on Nov. 29, in front a bustling city backdrop vastly different than where he grew up. "It runs how long it needs to," Rennels said. Will Oklahoma fare better or worse in 2017 season? Find Us . A farming community sprouted alongside the track soon after some 70 miles northwest of Lubbock and 30 miles east of the border taking its name from the nearby ranch where, legend has it, the original owner found a stray muleshoe lying in the soil. ".. It's been hectic. He brought belief and hope. There are many friendship threads in Rileys small hometown of nearly 6,000. The biggest story in town history, she said, has to be the dedication of the National Mule Memorial, constructed in homage to the animal that was once farming's beast of burden. Greatness, yes. LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - After two seasons as the Head Football Coach/Athletic Director at Muleshoe High School, Lee Walker has been reassigned. He was just more of a kid that soaked it all in. "But he had a really good memory, was really good at math and he was very competitive. And then there are the obligatory obits about friends and neighbors. That string of decisions eventually cost Riley any hope he had at playing big-time football. A humorist and actor and political pundit and newspaper columnist. 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. Once he sees something, hell never forget it.. And sometimes he'd double back and explain to me what I was missing.". Of course, some weeks are slower than others in this farming town of 5,000, located 70 flat, High Plains miles northwest of Lubbock. "We had great success there throughout our years. The next year he was hired on at Oklahoma as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach under the nationally-renowned Bob Stoops. Muleshoe's high-powered offense is led by junior running back Daniel Sianez (579 yards, 6 TD) and the senior wide receiver duo of Ivan Torres (27 receptions, 293 yards, 2 TD) and Eliasar . His coaching career would soon take off into the stratosphere, leading him to East Carolina, then Oklahoma and now USC, but Riley was already a star in Muleshoe. Mike and Marilyn Riley had to settle for the revelry generated in their hometown. "Small town, very tight-knit community. Stoops said he wouldnt have retired this offseason if not for his confidence in Riley. Eight years later, on the brink of that state championship, Riley returned to Muleshoe High for a pep rally. Riley was on the football and track teams at Muleshoe (Tex.) In 2014, assistant head coach was added to Riley's titles. When OU was searching for a new offensive coordinator in 2015, Stoops called McNeill for permission to speak to Riley. Following the 2016 season, he was appointed Bob Stoops' successor, and he guided the team to the 2017 Rose Bowl and a #2 position in the College Football Playoffs. Plus, he has the trust of his predecessor. Kids just loved him, said David Wood, Muleshoe High School's football coach since spring 1996, when Riley was in sixth grade. Makes a lot of people feel good., Wood -- who also coached Lincoln's brother, Garrett, when the Mules won the 2008 Class 2A Division I state championship with the younger Riley quarterbacking -- said he was surprised that Stoops stepped down, but didn't surprise me (OU) named Lincoln the head coach. Current OU wide receivers coach Dennis Simmons, who was at Texas Tech for 10 years as a full-time assistant or support staff member, has witnessed Rileys fast trajectory as a college football coach. Note: Lincoln Riley turns 35 years old today. That part has always been important to me.. The selection committee sorted through 112 applications and interviewed six applicants on Jan. 22 and 23 before determining that Richards would be their choice. 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. 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. High, a West Texas town of 5,000. Though Riley had a coach's mind, Wood never saw him going into that profession, thinking that mind might be too good for coaching. Oklahoma, where Memorial Stadium could hold 17 times the population of Muleshoe. He's certainly more comfortable in his job than he was a year ago at this time. It wasnt until Wood came to town in the spring of 1996 that the teams fortunes started to turn around. fellow students never quite understood, she said. "We were Tech fans here because it's close," Todd, the undertaker, announced. CALL. Im fired up. Still, the savvy proprietor of the town's only cable station can't possibly know what stories might fall into her lap for the three times a week Muletrain report on her family-operated Channel 6. 2023 www.oklahoman.com. 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. Upon the completion of his degree in 2012, he was named the running backs coach at Augustana College in Illinois. A few years later, Leach offered Riley a full-time job as a wide receivers coach. Muleshoe, Texas might see it a little differently. "It's just this year's team," he said. It was so sudden, Graves says. I wish I could have recorded Lincoln with how smooth, precise and decisive he was on that night of the game, McNeill said. I said, Ruffin, Ive read all about him. But thats the kind of guy that Ruffin is. Most recently, he attended a Garth Brooks concert in Kansas City. For many coaches, its difficult to turn the football mind off. "Yeah, hotel right now," he says. Following the 2009 season, he left his position as the Red Raiders wide receivers coach to become offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at East Carolina under head coach Ruffin McNeill. But after Riley walked on at Texas Tech, then-Red Raiders coach Mike Leach encouraged him to get off . That was pretty exciting.. Even in the classroom, when the teacher was giving notes, he'd just soak it in. He had a big following when he was coming through high school. She's from Dimmitt, 45 miles away. He was a young man who could create plays, said Black, the longtime mayor. I just wanted to build on people that wanted to be in Muleshoe and want to get things going again.. Caravans of pick-ups and SUVs would filter out of town for road games, packing visiting bleachers across the plains. Muleshoe dropped a 28-27 decision to Merkel in the area round of the Class 3A Division I playoffs last weekend. Start End Years Coach Name Record; 1996: 2011: 16: David Wood: 139-51-0: Add Team Photo. But its also a dream come true. Riley already has plenty of quality head-coaching experience behind him, plus a hefty new contract approved by the school last month. One of those guys, not necessarily write things down. We still attended all the games. Outside candidates. When Lincoln attended Texas Tech, about 70 miles northwest of their home, the Rileys cheered for the Red Raiders. Did Riley envision himself as a future coach? You just have a lot of pride in the town and in the people. Hes gonna make the Trojans a powerhouse again.. After two years as OUs offensive coordinator, hell take over as head coach. It didn't take much, however, to get his competitive football juices flowing in Lubbock. I would put those at the top of the list.". Ellis is hoping to change that with plans for a new development on the edge of town, a project he hopes might convince folks fleeing Lubbock, 70 miles to the southeast, to take refuge in small-town living. That notion crossed his mind the last Sunday morning in November, as he decided within a few hours to leave the comfort of Oklahoma for the uncertainty of USC. 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. Head Boys Powerlifting Coach Jaxon Lee. Questions? 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Last week's scrimmage against Olton showed the growth the Muleshoe football team has made over the last year. He knew exactly how to handle everything from the playcalling to quarterbacks.. The work was strenuous enough to teach Lincoln Riley the intended lessons about hard work and responsibility but also to convince him he had no interest in inheriting the family business. Lincoln, theyll tell you, couldve been anything. Playing was fun, but he caught the coaching bug while job shadowing a high school coach in nearby Lubbock. . Donnie trained both of us and patience was a big thing, McNeill said about coaching transitions. Davis will be Muleshoes defensive coordinator and linebackers coach after previously being at Texico (New Mexico) High School. ", football hit an extended drought in the second half of the 20th century as coaches came and went with remarkable regularity. He is the former high school quarterback who wore No. Its like Christmas Eve and Im 6 years old. That number barely fields a varsity team. The Mules are set to kickoff the 2021 football team on Friday night by hosting Sundown. A rocket scientist. I just knew there were things I wanted to try to do, he says. Hes going to kind of do everything.. Notice something in common about the starting quarterbacks for Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Georgia entering this year? Just do what got you here, Riley said. Registration is at 7:15 to 8:00 at the football field first session is for incoming . After watching Riley try to make it as a walk-on quarterback, the coach offered Riley a student assistant coaching job. He doubled that win total in his first . What should student loan borrowers do while waiting for Supreme Court forgiveness ruling? 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. 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