After the game on Saturday afternoon, Oregon Ducks’ head coach was asked a difficult question. His team had just beat the No. 10 UCLA Bruins by a score of 45-30 and taken the undisputed top spot in the Pac-12 conference. On top of that, he had just welcomed the arguable best coach in Oregon history, and gave him a taste of his own medicine with a high-flying offense that was unable to be stopped.
Lanning was asked to describe how good it felt to be in his position, as a first-year head coach finding unfounded success so early on in Eugene.
As frequen readers would expected, he quickly defelected and put the credit on his players and his coaching staff. High class through and through.
Whether he will admit it or not, Saturday was a huge day for Lanning, who has his team back in the mix after a disastrous start, and potentially making things tough for the College Football Playoff committee. Here’s a look at all of the notable things he had to say on Saturday after the win: