USC set to hire new-look general manager for football in upcoming weeks

LOS ANGELES — Lincoln Riley has been saying it loud for months, in rooms private and public, as the NCAA’s definition of amateurism has been increasingly buried under a heap of pay-for-play cash: the current model of college football is now a professional model.

“We’re having to make some tough decisions,” Riley said on an early December appearance on USC’s “Trojans Live” radio show. “We’re having to decide where to allocate reps, or where to allocate resources, roster spots, all of those things.