Thirteen months ago Oregon Football named Georgia Defensive Coordinator Dan Lanning as its new Head Coach. Lanning was in the process of leading the Bulldogs defense to a National Championship, which Georgia will seek to defend without Lanning next Monday. Lanning would be Oregon’s 4th Head Coach in just six years.
After the decades-long stability of the Rich Brooks and Mike Bellotti tenures, some Duck fans were beginning to wonder if Oregon’s investments in football success had made it a way-station; a place where a Coach would come to build a hot national reputation before moving on to his “dream job.