He's done it every signing day. Dan Lanning's four recruiting classes have ranked, in order since the first one two weeks after he stepped off the private plane in December 2021 with his wife and three boys, 16, 9, 4, and 3 in the 247Sports Composite.
In every one of those years, he's pulled off a flip or two in the last days or hours before signing day.
Of course not every flip or recruit signing works out. But football is a game of numbers, and Lanning's combination of ruthlessness, relentlessness, relationships and old-fashioned NIL bags of cash has netted the Ducks some big shocks in the closing days of the recruiting cycle year after year.