Lincoln Riley 2.0? Garrett Riley doesn’t live in his famous brother’s shadow

Texas Christian offensive coordinator Garrett Riley watches players warm up before a game against Iowa State in November. “There’s no question about it, I am who I am and was the quarterback that I was in large part because of Garrett Riley,” said Wood, who’s now coach at Snyder High, south of Lubbock. “If either one of us has bragging rights over the other, we’ve certainly never hesitated to use that.” — Lincoln Riley, USC football coach, on what he and younger brother Garrett accomplished in high school Garrett’s ascent as quarterback felt almost preordained — “I don’t remember ever considering that it would happen any other way,” Lincoln says — but where Lincoln’s run at Muleshoe came completely by surprise, the expectations had risen considerably by the time his brother took on the role five years later. But I knew while we were that he was going to be just fine in this business.” — Lincoln Riley, on his Garrett’s path in college football “If either one of us has bragging rights over the other,” Lincoln said, “we’ve certainly never hesitated to use that.” Yet when it came to coaching, Garrett was determined to not rely on the cache his brother built. Garrett reminded Dykes quite a bit of Lincoln, whom he said was “more mature at 20 than I was at 30.” “I don’t know what’s in the water in Muleshoe,” Dykes said, with a laugh.