Dan Lanning has always been the same guy, and the way he went after Mike Gundy's team and used Gundy's comments as motivation was something that was foreshadowed in his first two years as Oregon coach.
Back in 2023 after Oregon beat Colorado 42-6, Skip Bayless called out certain white coaches for the way they targeted Deion Sanders and the Buffaloes.
The media personality and speak-first, speak-loud gadfly said then on his Fox talk show "Undisputed," “I’ve tried to tell you guys for two weeks there is a deep-rooted, venomous vengeance that is starting to manifest itself against Deion among white coaches.