Dan Lanning is happy to have the support he does at Oregon and its NIL football operation.
Oregon football has enjoyed tremendous recruiting and portal gains under head coach Dan Lanning, in part because of an NIL operation that gets generous help from Nike co-founder Phil Knight, something that Georgia coach Kirby Smart took notice of recently.
"I think it's impressive that guys like Kirby Smart have been signing the number one class in the nation without any NIL money 😂😂"I think it's impressive that guys like Kirby have been signing the No. 1 class in the nation without any NIL money this entire time," Lanning said on The Pat McAfee Show.
He added: "Do we have a lot more than everybody else? I think that'd be an exaggeration or we'd never lose. Everyone else right now is focused on our ice cream cone, and if I'm busy looking at theirs, that means mine's melting." "I still definitely visit with Kirby," he said. "I consider him a great mentor, and I wouldn't be sitting here if it wasn't for guys like that. Kirby's changed my career. I probably learned more from Coach Smart than other other coach that I've ever worked with in my career."
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