Dan Lanning Responds to Backlash Over Pregame Speech Aggressive Playcalling vs. Colorado
Oregon head coach Dan Lanning responds to the backlash from his pregame speech and aggressive playcalling against the Colorado Buffaloes.
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00:00 >> There's been a lot of talk nationally about your pregame speech and
00:04 your aggressive play calling.
00:06 I think Skip Bayless called it venomous vengeance.
00:09 I'm just curious what your thoughts are on that and
00:12 kind of how your words have been skewed a little bit.
00:14 >> Yeah, I mean, I don't know Skip at all.
00:16 I've never had a conversation with him.
00:20 I've watched him enough to know how often he gets it wrong.
00:22 So I mean, that sounds about right.
00:24 But I mean, ultimately, here's what I say, we're playing to win the game, right?
00:28 And you saw a 15 second clip from a window view outside the house of what
00:33 happens in the locker room, right?
00:35 I know our locker room.
00:36 I'm in the house 100% of the time.
00:38 I know how our players felt going into that game.
00:41 And I know what it takes to motivate our players.
00:42 That's my job to motivate our players, right?
00:45 He has a job, I have a job too, to get out there and to perform on the field.
00:48 But inside that house, they felt a certain way.
00:51 They felt a certain way about a group stomping on the O.
00:53 They felt a certain way about guys talking to him in the pregame.
00:56 And I'm proud of those guys cuz what they decided to do is talk with their pads.
01:00 Right, they didn't wanna do anything extra afterwards.
01:03 They wanna talk with their pads and they did that on Saturday.
01:05 I'm also grateful and can clearly acknowledge that the attention that we got
01:12 this Saturday in large part was due to Deion and what he's doing to college football.
01:17 And if anybody can't see what he's done for college football and
01:19 how he's bringing excitement to college football, you're crazy, right?
01:22 And I said that last week as well.
01:24 He's done a lot for the game.
01:25 He's building something over there.
01:27 I think that's really, really clear.
01:28 There's no secret there.
01:29 But it wouldn't matter if I was playing my ten year old son on the other sideline.
01:33 I'm gonna do everything I can to win.
01:34 If I'm playing Bill Belichick, I'm gonna do everything I can to win.
01:37 Did I go for it on fourth down?
01:38 Yeah, I have every game this year, right?
01:40 I've gone for it nine times.
01:41 Did I go for a two point conversion?
01:42 Yeah, I've done it three out of the four games this year.
01:45 And if we play again tomorrow, I'm gonna do the same thing.
01:47 I'm gonna do everything I can to win a game and
01:49 everything I can to motivate my team.
01:51 So that to me is classless, what he's saying there, but
01:56 I'm not really worried about it.