Dave Nichol, USC inside wide receivers coach, dies at 45
2 years, 8 months ago

Dave Nichol, USC inside wide receivers coach, dies at 45

LA Times  

Dave Nichol, a new assistant and longtime college receivers coach who joined USC’s staff just in December, has died, the school announced Friday. Nichol followed Riley to USC after spending most of his career as an assistant coach under Mike Leach, the Air Raid aficionado who also gave Riley his first coaching job. Eventually, Nichol would take Riley’s place as offensive coordinator when the coach left for the same job at Oklahoma in 2015. Six years later, Riley would call on Nichol to join his first USC staff as inside receivers coach.

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USC’s Lincoln Riley on Dave Nichol: ‘Owe everything to the guy’
2 years, 8 months ago

USC’s Lincoln Riley on Dave Nichol: ‘Owe everything to the guy’

LA Times  

Dave Nichol, who joined Lincoln Riley’s coaching staff in December as the team’s inside wide receivers coach, died this week after a battle with cancer. “I look back on it now and think, ‘Man, had Dave not taken a vested interest in some no-name walk-on coming in there, I probably wouldn’t be here right now.’ So myself, my family, we …

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