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Lincoln Riley has been the head coach of the University of Oklahoma for just two seasons, but could he have already been tempted to make the jump to the NFL?
Riley basically squashed any chance of that last month when he signed a contract extension with Oklahoma, and he recently told Peter King of NBC Sports that he was not tempted at all:
“I certainly wasn’t tempted at all this year,” Riley said. “I would say right now it wouldn’t surprise me at all if I am a college lifer. I think it’ll be interesting how a lot of things go on from here … if there’s a lot of changes in both games. Football is evolving; there’s a lot of changes obviously at the NFL level right now. There’s a lot of changes with all the transfers and recruiting and all the different things going on at the college level. You never know how those games are going to evolve. I might’ve been tempted honestly had I not been at a place like Oklahoma. But this is one of the best jobs there is in football. Like I’ve said before, I’ll never say never. I never want to promise things that I can’t 1,000 percent guarantee. It’s not something that really tempts me at all right now.”
Riley has gone 24-4 over his first two seasons with the Sooners, posting a pair of bowl losses.
He is just 36 years old, so there is plenty of time for him to eventually become an NFL head coach, but it seems that right now, his main focus is on Oklahoma.
