Next Duck Coach: DAN LANNING

[Tray Dub]

A few thoughts on the presser:

- The Q and A portion was much better and I'd recommend skipping to it. Lots of guys aren't natural at reading off a script, he was really good when ad libbing.
- Love that he mentions the best coaches he's been around are willing to rethink and adapt. That was one of Mario's weaknesses.
- Exciting to hear him mention the stat that the best corelate for wins and losses in college football right now is explosive plays. I want to get back to that.
- Agree with Stu that it's pretty cool he's been building a list of potential coaches for his staff on his Notes app since his ASU days. He seems genuinely passionate about all of this.

Obviously time will tell, but I remain really excited about the hire.

[karlhungis]

So for those of us concerned about his lack of experience, everyone can relax because he has a firm grasp of coach speak and clichés. He can pronounce Oregon, his only fire-able flaw so far is the overuse of "Duck Nation" . Well I guess there was also the saying the quiet part out loud about preparing for your next job.

Duck nation + Lunch pail. He's going to turn us into OSU.

[dd10snoop28]

Sounds like a great hire.

[DuckzRule]

Hopefully he leads us to a natty soon, 2023 is our biggest chance yet, with a favorable non-conference schedule.

[alxtw]

In terms of public speaking, he's a big step down from MC, but MC was worldclass at that. The real first test for MC was saving the draft class. That's what I am waiting to see from this guy.

Agree to disagree, but very much disagree.

Agree with your disagreement.

Absolutely. He spoke from the heart, and while he was not Obama in his oratory skills, (Like seriously, who is?), he is a football coach, not a public speaker. He most definitely wrote his own speech, you could tell that. I loved that line about his coaching experience, "Let me cut you off, I WAS head coach of my 3rd grade basketball team and we were GOOD"!!! (Paraphrasing). I laughed for three minutes at that. He knows who he is and he knew that someone would eventually mention that and he had a response. LOVE IT!!!!

Also, keep in mind the guy is running on pure adrenaline at this point. He is preparing for the CFP for a team who just whopped Ohio St and the top scoring offense in the nation after getting the annual beatdown by Alabama and ohhh yea, taking over an entire program who just got jilted by who they thought was their head coach. He's probably slept about 4 hours in the last 3 days. Guy is going 110MPH in every direction. Pretty sure we can cut him a break if he doesn't have the perfect answer to every question?

Mario public speaking delivery and composure is top notch. Like a seasoned CEO of a fortune 500 company. I feel good listening to when he speaks but after a while I realize the content of what he says is always pretty generic. He's a great PR guy who is going to say what is safe and not what he's really thinking/feeling.

You can hear the passion when Mario and Lanning speak, but the delivery and content is very different. Like many posters mentioned before, Lanning speech is very genuine and heartfelt. I prefer that over the same, broken record speeches.

[UofDuck]

His pointing out that you can’t win at the highest level today without explosive plays was so refreshing. I became so sick of hearing about imposing our will with physicality over and over…. Adapting in any business is the lifeblood of success and it appears Lanning understands that.

[Zyme]

I also fully expect Lanning to be gone in 3-5 years. Either he'll be terrible and we'll fire him, or he'll do well and move back to the SEC. That isn't a knock on him, it's just today's world of college football.

And it might be wishful thinking, but part of me hopes we land Dillingham, and he is very successful as the OC. That way he is ready to be the HC if/when Lanning takes another job.

As long as he can leave the program better than he found it and the hiring team will have to trip the buyout I will be fine. Mario left this team better than he found it and 9 mil in the coffers with Miami tripping the buyout.

[GrantDuck]

My early take: Lanning is a big risk and a little corny...but these are not necessarily bad things.

The risk is that he's young and a first time HC and we're going against Lincoln Riley and I think at minimum a better coach than Fake Lake was at UW in DeBoer.

That seems "negative"...but there's a lot of successful people that are a little corny(see Pete Carroll). There's a lot of coaches that are young unknowns that revolutionize the game. See the Rams' coach. Sometimes you have to take that risk. I'm not sure about Lanning's schemes or what his touch on defense is, but I'm excited to learn what some of those are and hope he hires a great staff and wins us that elusive title.

[Kimber45]

Love the hire.

Dude read his first head coaching job presser speech like he was taking over a 2-10 Toledo program rather than a 10-3 Oregon Ducks program. Coach Cristobal left the talent cupboard full even with players leaving for early entry to the NFL.

With good staffing choices and an ability to snuff out any prima donna culture that may exist among the players the Oregon job is a wet dream for a first time head coach.

Except that the job is in Eugene, State of Oregon.

Miami is an objectively a better place to live unfortunately.

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[rockthief]

Love the hire.

Dude read his first head coaching job presser speech like he was taking over a 2-10 Toledo program rather than a 10-3 Oregon Ducks program. Coach Cristobal left the talent cupboard full even with players leaving for early entry to the NFL.

With good staffing choices and an ability to snuff out any prima donna culture that may exist among the players the Oregon job is a wet dream for a first time head coach.

Except that the job is in Eugene, State of Oregon.

Miami is an objectively a better place to live unfortunately.

Nah. Oregon is stunningly beautiful. I cannot imagine living elsewhere.

[Zyme]

Love the hire.

Dude read his first head coaching job presser speech like he was taking over a 2-10 Toledo program rather than a 10-3 Oregon Ducks program. Coach Cristobal left the talent cupboard full even with players leaving for early entry to the NFL.

With good staffing choices and an ability to snuff out any prima donna culture that may exist among the players the Oregon job is a wet dream for a first time head coach.

Except that the job is in Eugene, State of Oregon.

Miami is an objectively a better place to live unfortunately.

Nah. Oregon is stunningly beautiful. I cannot imagine living elsewhere.

I've got family in Florida, I moved away from the southern climes to get back here.

[gogreen55]

Miami is an objectively a better place to live unfortunately.

During the winter, probably 95% plus of people would agree with you. During other times of the year, there would be much less of an overwhelming consensus. It also depends on what stage of your life you are in, your general lifestyle, etc.

[nogerO]

Love the hire.

Dude read his first head coaching job presser speech like he was taking over a 2-10 Toledo program rather than a 10-3 Oregon Ducks program. Coach Cristobal left the talent cupboard full even with players leaving for early entry to the NFL.

With good staffing choices and an ability to snuff out any prima donna culture that may exist among the players the Oregon job is a wet dream for a first time head coach.

Except that the job is in Eugene, State of Oregon.

Miami is an objectively a better place to live unfortunately.

Nah. Oregon is stunningly beautiful. I cannot imagine living elsewhere.

Nobody is disputing the natural beauty of the state. It's the rest of the baggage that turns people off...

[Mike Bellotti's Mustache]

Love the hire.

Dude read his first head coaching job presser speech like he was taking over a 2-10 Toledo program rather than a 10-3 Oregon Ducks program. Coach Cristobal left the talent cupboard full even with players leaving for early entry to the NFL.

With good staffing choices and an ability to snuff out any prima donna culture that may exist among the players the Oregon job is a wet dream for a first time head coach.

Except that the job is in Eugene, State of Oregon.

Miami is an objectively a better place to live unfortunately.

Nah. Oregon is stunningly beautiful. I cannot imagine living elsewhere.

Nobody is disputing the natural beauty of the state. It's the rest of the baggage that turns people off...

That's a very diplomatic way of putting it. Outstanding!!!