What Lanning said as Oregon enters offseason
EUGENE — Dan Lanning is back at Oregon after helping Georgia win the College Football Playoff National Championship.
Lanning held his first press conference at UO since he was hired last month and after the early signing period to review his staff, personnel matters and how the Ducks will approach the next 20 days of recruiting until the February signing period begins.
Below is a transcript from that press conference.
DAN LANNING
“I hope everybody’s doing great. Excited to get started. Excited to be wearing one uniform here, from here on out. Certainly pumped up to be here today and the last few days here on Oregon’s campus. Exciting for me, our staff just got done doing a campus tour, and I just continue to be impressed with the innovation on this campus. Got to see our academic center, and our whole coaching staff got to spend some time where they’re in the Jaqua Center. See the track facility, find out that we’re the No. 1 sports business school in the nation. Just some of these things that just continue to impress me with where we’re headed and the direction and the excitement around our program and this university is thrilling. Obviously, this past week, past month for me and our staff has been a roller coaster, a lot of fun. I wouldn’t change a minute of it with spending such a rewarding experience getting to go compete with the guys that I’ve coached for such a long time and finish it on a high note with winning the national championship. But with that being said, we’ll go ahead and open this up for questions.”
On Sean Dollars removing name from transfer portal, status of Trey Benson and if Travis Dye and CJ Verdell have decided on their plans in 2022:
“Ultimately, I think each one of those conversations is a personal conversation with those players and it doesn’t necessarily have to be on here. But a lot of that is just conversation, it’s that. It’s being able to have a conversation and when you’re in a different part of the world, you can’t have those. So when you get back here to home base and you’re able to sit down, I think there’s a lot that can be accomplished when that happens. Some of these guys are still going through the process of making some of those decisions and I don’t want to necessarily put a timeline on each person’s situation because each situation is different. I’ll say this, I’m excited about the group of backs we have. We’ll continue to be aggressive and finding guys that can enhance our program and make us better. But I think that a lot of those guys will be a part of what we’re doing moving forward.”