Oregon’s head coach, Dan Lanning, is one of the hottest names in the sport. After his second season with the Ducks, he was a big-time name for two SEC coaching jobs at Texas A&M and Alabama.
Lanning was getting approached by both schools even though they wouldn’t admit to it, and the Duck’s head coach decided he wanted to stay in Eugene, wanting to build Oregon into champions.
Dan Lanning Should Not Still Be At Oregon
Oregon started the 2024 season last week and almost lost to Idaho. Seven days later, they turned around and had to be at Boise State by three.
The Ducks are nowhere close to being an elite team at the moment, and they are no longer in the PAC-12 but now in the Big Ten, where it will be a lot harder for them to win.
Oregon is supposed to have one of the best teams in the county, but through the first two weeks, they haven’t shown it, and there is a chance they never will.
If the program struggles with nonpower teams, what do you think will happen when they play Ohio State and Michigan?
It was neat for Lanning to stay with Oregon and want to build the team into winners, but the program has shown from time to time they can’t win anything, and it doesn’t matter who the head coach is.
When Chip Kelly was coaching in Euegne, they had some great teams but couldn’t finish it, and the same thing will happen with Lanning.
Lanning should’ve bounced for Alabama this offseason, and is Oregon really that great of a job in the first place?
Since 2012, the Ducks have seen three head coaches leave for the NFL or other college coaching jobs: Chip Kelly, Willie Taggart, and Mario Cristobal.
Coaches don’t want to stay with Oregon, and Lanning will realize that at some point. The Ducks are never going to win the Big Ten, and Lanning should be coaching Alabama right now, competing for SEC titles, but he’s stuck at the end of the earth coaching a program that hasn’t won anything, and their games are being shown at 10:00 ET on Peacock.