Dan Lanning wants to win football games. He's not a coach that courts the media.
In fact, he barely tolerates the daily press briefings, shutting down questions he doesn't like, baiting them with asides, and stopping just short of being openly contemptuous of reporters trying to do the difficult job of trying to extract information from a coach who doesn't want to give them anymore than necessary.
Lanning was in midseason form Tuesday after practice.
He and Oregonian beat writer James Crepea have a combative relationship. Crepea has an over-fondness for detailed and sometimes long-winded questions; the coach wants to get back to the film room.