I just pieced a timeline together that's interesting, if not for just the timing of it all, as USC's Lincoln Riley and Dana Holgorsen have coached together in the past. I think Riley and Holgorsen knowing each other and coming from the same coaching tree is definitely a story line and has been talked about already a bit, but here is a timeline:
- Mike Leach was the OC/OL coach at Iowa Wesleyan 1989-1991.
- Dana Holgorsen played WR for Iowa Wesleyan 1990-1992.
- Mike Leach was OC/WR/QB/OL coach at Valdosta State 1992-1996.
- Dana Holgorsen's first coaching job was QB/WR/ST Valdosta State 1993-1995.
- Leach went to Kentucky as OC 1997-1998.
- Holgorsen went to Mississippi College to coach QB/WR/ST 1996-1998 and at Wingate 1999.
- Mike Leach was OC/QB coach at Oklahoma in 1999 under Stoops, then became head coach at Texas Tech in 2000 (2000-2009).
- Holgorsen becomes IWR coach Texas Tech 2000-2004, then Co-OC/IWR 2005-2006, then OC/IWR in 2007.
- Lincoln Riley was QB at Texas Tech in 2002.
- Lincoln Riley gets first coaching gig at Texas Tech (SA) 2003-2005, GA 2006, WR 2007, IWR 2008-2009.
- At this point there was a moment where: Leach is HC, Riley was WR coach, and Holgorsen was OC/IWR coach.
- Holgorsen goes to Houston as OC/QB in 2008-2009.
- Holgorsen then goes to Oklahoma State OC/QB for 2010 before becoming West Virginia HC 2011-2018.
- Riley got his first OC job at East Carolina in 2010-2014.
- Riley becomes Oklahoma OC/QB 2015-2016, HC 2017-2021.
- Holgorsen Houston HC 2019-2023.
- Lincoln Riley HC at USC in 2022.
- And here we are.
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