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For approximately 24 hours over the weekend, Oregon Duck fans were feeling a sense of anxiety that has certainly become familiar in the last decade. There was an air of impending dread that was hovering over Eugene as the coaching carousel started to churn in the world of college football, and the most popular guy in the Willamette Valley was seeing his name circulated nationally.
Dan Lanning was being thrown out there as a top candidate for the newly opened Texas A&M Aggies coaching job after the firing of Jimbo Fisher, and Duck fans once again had to face the potential reality that their beloved head coach might jump ship to take a higher-paying job elsewhere.
On Monday night, Lanning further found a way to grow fan adoration, emphatically shutting down those rumors and making it very clear, once again, that he has no desire to be anywhere but Eugene.
“I think I’ve been really, really clear here since day one,” Lanning said. “Everything I want exists right here. I’m not going anywhere. There’s zero chance that I would be coaching somewhere else. I’ve got unfinished business here.”
While the fans loved Lanning’s clear and candid messaging to the program, it also went a long way with players on the team. Those guys know better than anyone that their head coach is unlikely to get up and go elsewhere, but having a definitive statement never hurts when it comes to calming the nerves, especially at a program where this sort of thing has been a problem in the past.
“I think it’s refreshing,” veteran C Jackson Powers-Johnson said of Lanning’s statement on Tuesday. “I mean, as a player you see those jobs get opened up and that kind of scares you a little bit because you know, this is a business. To see Coach come out and say all that kind of stuff and say how much he loves Oregon. it’s…
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Author : Ducks Wire
Publish date : 2023-11-15 14:42:15
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