Sources: Clemson to work with TCU’s Riley as new OC
Clemson fired offensive coordinator Brandon Streeter, the school announced on Thursday, and will hire TCU offensive coordinator Garrett Riley, sources told ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg and Chris Low.Streeter served just one season as the Tigers ‘full-time playcaller, though he ‘d been with Clemson as an assistant coach since 2015, and he played quarterback at Clemson from 1995 to 1999. Riley invested this previous season at TCU as the Horned Frogs’
offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He was called the Broyles Award winner as the top assistant coach in the nation.A board of trustees conference has been arranged for Friday at Clemson to authorize Riley’s contract.Editor’s Picks 2 Associated “As the leader of this program, I am responsible for our staff and liable for
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though we took an advance offensively in 2022,”Clemson coach Dabo Swinney stated in a statement.” After examining our offense in-depth, I felt it was in the best interest of our program to look for brand-new leadership at that position. These decisions are never ever easy, however it is my task to evaluate and examine every part of our program every year, and this was simply the right time to make a change.” TCU lost 65-7 to Georgia in the College Football Playoff championship game game. That’s after beating Michigan 51-45 in the semifinal game at the Vrbo Feast Bowl. The Horned Frogs finished ninth nationally in scoring offense(38.8 points per game). Riley, the younger brother of USC coach Lincoln Riley, had actually been a hot commodity. He also spoke with Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher about the Aggies’offensive organizer job.Streeter served
as quarterbacks coach throughout both of Clemson’s latest championship games, mentoring future first-round draft selects Deshaun Watson and Trevor Lawrence. He was promoted to offending organizer last year after Tony Elliott left to end up being head coach at Virginia.This marks the very first time Swinney has actually fired an assistant coach because protective coordinator Kevin Steele was let go following a 70-33 loss to West Virginia in the Orange Bowl to end the 2011 season.Swinney needed to change both planners after Elliott and long time protective organizer Brent Venables left for head-coaching tasks. He made in-house hires for both tasks, promoting Streeter and protective expert Wes Goodwin. Swinney shook off questions about the internal hires– something he’s finished with the overwhelming variety of personnel vacancies in the last few years– by stating culture trumped experience.”Hope is a big part of this program,”Streeter said last offseason.”Somebody needed to believe in Coach Swinney to get where he is. They saw something in him, which’s what he’s finished with this personnel. Give men opportunities, and you’ll be amazed what they can do with it.”Streeter really made marked enhancements on Clemson
‘s offense in 2022. The Tigers went from 5.2 backyards per play, 26.3 points per game and 2.0 points per drive in 2021 to 5.6, 33.2 and 2.5, respectively, in 2022. In both seasons, however, Clemson fought with QB issues, as former blue-chip recruit DJ Uiagalelei floundered for long stretches, a young receiving corps failed to establish rapidly and the offending line muddled through a number of shaky performances.Perhaps the greatest knock on Streeter’s brief run was the absence of brings for star running back Will Shipley.
Shipley had just 3 rushes in the first half of Clemson’s Orange Bowl loss to Tennessee in December.Swinney probably will look outside the program for Streeter’s replacement, something he did successfully when employing Chad Morris to coach the offense in 2010 and Venables on defense in 2011.
Of Clemson’s nine current on-field assistants, nevertheless, only two have worked for another FBS program in an on-field capability– and none of Clemson’s offending assistants have.Chris Low and Adam Rittenberg contributed to this story.