Dan Lanning introduced Oregon Ducks Football to his new league at Big Ten Football Media Days in Indianapolis Thursday.
MODERATOR: Good morning. Our first coach is Oregon's Dan Lanning. Coach Lanning, welcome to the Big Ten. We'll begin with your opening statement.It's certainly great to be back here in Indianapolis. The last time I was in this stadium, I got to enjoy a National Championship with some of my former players there at Georgia. It's refreshing to be here, 2 1/2 years from that moment, it's been so rewarding to be a part of our program at Oregon, and certainly excited about that.
Our three boys right now are back home doing church camp, but my kids are just at that perfect age -- 14, 13, and 11. I wish I could freeze time. Some of you parents out there know how valuable that is. I've got an unbelievable home. I've got a head coach at home, Sauphia, my wife, who's been the absolute backstop, the root for our family, and made the summer a whole lot of fun for us to spend some time together in fellowship.
This off-season we spent some time studying a couple of books that hopefully will give us an edge. We studied "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu. We also studied the book "Hidden Potential" by Adam Grant. Hopefully these books will give us an edge as we attack this future season. I'll start with Dillon Gabriel, our quarterback. He's part of a great family. Garrett and Dori have done an unbelievable job raising this guy. I got the opportunity to recruit him a little bit when I was at Georgia before, and getting to reconnect with him, obviously he's a legacy. His dad set a lot of records as a quarterback before, and now Dillon gets an opportunity to carry on that legacy. I know wearing the No.
On the defensive side of the ball, we're able to bring Jeff Bassa here, one of our linebackers that has a little bit of experience with these media days. He was able to travel, this is his last year, to our media day in Las Vegas. His mom, Giselle, is extremely proud of him and the job that he's done. This guy has grown and grown every single year that I've been here into this leadership role to the point where we now have a coach on the field.
Q. First of all, welcome to the Big Ten. I wanted to ask you just about Dillon Gabriel and how you were able to build and cultivate that relationship between you two that will be able ultimately to translate on the field and accomplish the goals that you all are setting out this season.Yeah, one of our DNA traits is connection. You lean on prior experience. Like I said, Dillon is a guy that I knew before in the recruiting process and got to watch him from a distance.
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