Former Arizona Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury is set to join USC’s staff, sources revealed to ESPN on Monday. Kingsbury’s appointment is expected to be made final in the coming weeks.
USC coach Lincoln Riley will provide Kingsbury with a Trojans reunion, with the ex-Cardinals coach formerly acting as USC’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in December 2018.
Kingsbury left the team a month later to become the Cardinals’ head coach, where he remained for four years. With a record of 28-37-1 during his four seasons as head coach, Kingsbury led the Cardinals to the playoffs once.
“Lincoln has been looking for ways to explore getting better,” a source close to the situation commented. “Lincoln is 100 percent focused on doing everything he can to make his team better, and this is an example of it.”
As a quarterbacks coach, Kingsbury has trained top NFL stars such as Patrick Mahomes when he was at Texas Tech, Case Keenum during his time at Houston, and Johnny Manziel during his Heisman Trophy season in 2012 at Texas A&M.
