Dan Lanning Gives Definitive Answer On Future In Oregon As Coaching Carousel Heats Up

Oregon Ducks coach Dan Lanning is successful his 4th play successful Eugene, wherever he has ascended to go 1 of nan astir sought aft coaches successful assemblage football.

Lanning has gone 42-7 successful his three-plus seasons astatine nan helm, including a 7-1 grounds this play that has nan programme classed No. 6 successful nan AP poll. Lanning guided Oregon to a Big Ten title a twelvemonth agone successful nan school's first play successful nan conference, and nan Ducks played successful nan College Football Playoff astatine nan Rose Bowl, wherever they mislaid to eventual nationalist champion Ohio State.

So it's nary concealed why Lanning is truthful highly regarded, and it's nary astonishment why his sanction comes up truthful often successful caput coaching searches. This year's coaching carousel could beryllium 1 of nan craziest successful caller memory, pinch nan apical occupation astatine Florida, LSU and Penn State already unfastened and respective different schools looking to prosecute arsenic well.

Is location a chance Lanning could spot himself leaving nan Ducks? His reply is the aforesaid arsenic it has ever been.

"Zero [chance]. Zero. Yeah, I'm not leaving Oregon," Lanning told Rich Eisen connected Thursday. "That's what I show my kids, right? If your dada wins, we'll beryllium astatine Oregon."

Lanning said glowingly of nan position he's successful amid each nan chaos successful nan sport, pinch midseason firings becoming much nan norm than nan exception.

"It makes maine grateful for wherever I'm at," Lanning said. "Recognizing really vulnerable and typical it is. And it motivates you to support moving difficult because you recognize really impermanent things tin beryllium if you're not moving successful nan correct direction."

Lanning and nan Ducks are disconnected successful Week 10, but will return to nan field connected Nov. 8 astatine Iowa.

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