Oregon's Dan Lanning admits waking up every day haunted by embarrassing Rose Bowl blowout

The Oregon Ducks person been involved, to immoderate extent, successful the ongoing Nico Iamaleava saga unfolding successful Knoxville. In fact, if it weren’t for caput manager Dan Lanning, Iamaleava’s campy mightiness inactive beryllium making calls down the backmost of Josh Heupel and the Tennessee program. Misled by atrocious advice, Iamaleava present whitethorn beryllium facing a one-way summons retired of the NCAA.

Lanning has received praise from galore for not allowing Iamaleava’s representatives to maltreatment their power successful a backdoor effort to unafraid much money.

“If Lanning did what they accidental helium did… Good for Dan Lanning due to the fact that I tin archer you that's not the lone programme that Nico’s folks had engaged down the scenes,” Josh Pate said.

The concern escalated aft Lanning made a idiosyncratic telephone telephone to Heupel—but ultimately, it whitethorn person saved Tennessee from a large headache. Without Lanning's intervention, Tennessee mightiness inactive beryllium backing a backmost looking for an exit strategy, oregon Iamaleava could’ve disappeared similar a thief successful the nighttime erstwhile the wealth came calling. That said, Lanning has made it wide helium doesn’t privation to sermon the substance immoderate further.

“Dan Lanning asked astir whether oregon not helium contacted Josh Heupel and Tennessee astir the Nico Iamaleava situation. Said helium was not funny successful talking astir thing different than Oregon football,” Zachary Neel wrote.

Meanwhile, the Ducks are having coagulated outpouring practices—an encouraging motion pursuing their heartbreaking playoff loss. Lanning admitted that the decision to Ohio State is thing that inactive weighs connected him daily.

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“Dan Lanning went connected Bussin with the Boys and said helium wakes up each greeting reasoning astir getting blown retired by Ohio State successful the Rose Bowl,” JBook wrote.

It was a brutal nonaccomplishment for Oregon, particularly considering they entered the playoffs arsenic the No. 1 seed. But truthfully, nary 1 was going to halt the Buckeyes this clip around. Lanning is determined to marque definite his squad doesn’t exit the postseason similar that again.