Anthony Lynn relocated to Detroit this offseason, doing so after a four-year Los Angeles stay. The longtime NFL coach would be interested in moving back to L.A., should a rather notable opportunity emerge.
USC boosters have reached out to Lynn about the school’s head coaching vacancy, Jim Trotter of NFL.com tweets. While no official contact between the parties has taken place, Trotter adds Lynn would be interested in the high-profile college position.
Lynn, 52, has been an NFL lifer, playing eight seasons as a running back before breaking into coaching the year he retired (2000). He has not skipped an NFL season since, though he planned to this year after the Chargers fired him in January. The Lions hired Lynn as their OC soon after his Bolts ouster, and he has returned to a play-calling role.
Eric Bieniemy joined Lynn on the USC radar, while speculation has linked Urban Meyer to the job — to the point the Jaguars HC has needed to deny rumors about him returning to the college ranks. Bieniemy would join Lynn in being interested, though he obviously did not indicate this publicly. It is also unclear if either would take the job if it meant leaving their current post before season’s end. That would almost certainly be necessary.
There are a lot of qualified guys out there, why go after one that has no experience at the college level?
Football is football. If he can coach nfl why can’t he coach college. Only difference how you get players .
Thing is he couldn’t coach in the NFL. All the talent and couldn’t make it work.
How do you figure he can’t coach. He went to the playoffs. He had a season when Rivers threw as many interceptions as he could and he had a rookie qb. He has a better record at .516 than most NFL coaches right now.
That is a massive difference. Key to college is recruiting and Lynn has no experience which makes him an odd choice.
His in-game decision making has been terrible, but his name recognition could help with recruiting at the college level.
Not a bad name . Just had bad luck with La. I’ll take him over I leave everywhere I coach Myers
How do you figure he can’t coach. He went to the playoffs. He had a season when Rivers threw as many interceptions as he could and then he had a rookie qb. He has a .516 record which is better than most coaches in the NFL right now.
If you’ve followed his actual coaching from the head coach position….. you know exactly how comical this is. Everything from play calling, to roster decisions, to clock management, and on and on and on….. Anthony Lynn might be one of the nicest people in football….. but he is LOST as a head coach
If USC wants him, he might as well bail on the Lions mid-year, It would be par for the course for Detroit.