I stand with @CoachDanLanning. Not budging.
Lifelong @oregonfootball fan here. Three losses this season. Oklahoma State. UCLA. Illinois 21-10 yesterday. And I'm still standing with him. He's earned an off year, and if you think you care more about fixing this than he does, you're dead wrong.
Want to know how hard this job is right now? Look at who else has been in this exact spot.
Ryan Day. National champion. Still swung and missed on a hire. He took the play calling from Kerry Coombs right after Oregon beat the Buckeyes in 2021, brought in Jim Knowles, added Chip Kelly in 2024 and finally won it all. It took TWO elite coordinators.
Jim Harbaugh. Went 2-4 in 2020 and couldn't get past Ohio State. So he blew up the defense and went and got Mike Macdonald off his brother's Ravens staff. Michigan went from giving up 34.5 a game to 17.4, beat the Buckeyes, won the Big Ten and later won the national title. When Macdonald left, Harbaugh went back to the Ravens tree for Jesse Minter.
Kirby Smart. Promoted from inside, and the offense dropped from 37.9 a game to 30.8. He didn't ride it out. He took the play calling from James Coley, hired Todd Monken and won back to back national titles.
Nick Saban. Three titles at Alabama already, and he tore up his own offense anyway to build it around Lane Kiffin.
Same story every time. Champions miss. The great ones fix it.
Lanning wanted continuity. It worked from Dilly to Stein, so he trusted it would work again. It didn't. He knows it, and he'll own it.
But don't confuse a bad year with a coach who forgot how to coach. He won 13 games and reached a Playoff semifinal last season. He's 52-11 at Oregon. Elite by every measure, an incredible worker, battle tested in life way beyond football. This mistake is going to make him better.
And this is the toughest offseason of his life. Keep the roster together. Maybe blow up the offensive system. Let go of some control. None of that is easy, and I'm betting on him to do it.
Ducks fans, are you with him?
@geoffschwartz I don’t tweet but I follow you. I’m shocked that DL missed so badly on OC, offensive staff and offensive talent evaluation in certain position groups. Like how do you miss this bad?
Trey McNutt has been really good on punt coverage this season, and he just downed a kick inside the 5-yard line. In a game that could come down to a battle of field position, Ducks with an edge at the moment. #GoDucks
@JHopkinsSD That’s too bad about your feelings on Dawn. UCLA IS tough! And I’m glad to see them succeed (I’m at the game) but clearly you don’t know how much Dawn has done for the game of hoops for Women! Hard to wish for a pioneers downfall!
@TevinSr I’m here! Their effort was 💯 but they had no gas come the 2nd qtr.
AND Michigan is a better team most nights. Our #3, #4, and #5 and 6,7,8, need to be more consistent and develop an “edge” that only a handful have right not.
Ok Duck Fans lets get behind your punter, i know what ya gonna say "we don't want to see the punter" but when you do he better be bloody good, well this week @JamesFergusonR has been selected for the fan favourite weekly award @RayGuyAward please get behind #46 @oregonfootball #scoducks #goducks
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