USC coach Lincoln Riley exceeded the number of staff members allowed to act as coaches and was sanctioned by the NCAA, the organization announced.

LOS ANGELES - The NCAA has placed the USC Trojans football team on a one-year probation for violating rules on coaching limits, the association announced Tuesday. The team will also have to pay a $50,000 fine, though Head Coach Lincoln Riley will not face a suspension.

The NCAA has put the USC Trojans football team on a one-year probation with a $50,000 fine for coaching violations, according to a report from 247Sports.

As if his third year at USC wasn’t already tumultuous enough, Lincoln Riley is now on probation. On Tuesday, the NCAA announced that USC football has been placed on probation for one year, following a lengthy collaborative investigation that determined the program had violated previously in-place bylaws around analysts engaging in countable coaching activities.

The USC Trojans football program was placed on a one-year probation and handed a $50,000 fine for violating NCAA rules. Coach Lincoln Riley addressed the ruling when he spoke with the media on Tuesday.

The USC football program was placed on probation earlier this week, following an investigation that revealed coaching violations. Head coach Lincoln Riley addressed the interpretation of the NCAA rules that USC violated was “going to be different in a hundred different places,

Honestly, don't really have anything to add," Riley said to the media (h/t Rival Network's Ryan Young). "I mean, we've h