I get that often times it doesn't matter snd he could bolt tomorrow. His reasons for staying lead me to believe he turns it down.
“We talk about outside noise a lot in our program, I guess the reality here is No. 1, my name and our program would never be a topic of conversation for another school if we didn’t have something here that everybody else wanted. The reason we have something here that everybody else wants, that’s because of what our players, our coaches, the support that exists here at Oregon have created.
“I think I’ve been really, really clear here since Day 1, everything I want exists right here. I’m not going anywhere. There’s zero chance that I would be coaching somewhere else. I’ve got unfinished business here; there’s a lot that I want to accomplish here at Oregon. My No. 1 priority is being elite here at Oregon and we have the resources, the tools — anybody that can’t understand why you would want to be here at this place does not understand exactly what exists here.”
Lanning added he has three children, a 10, 12 and 13-year-old, that he wants to raise in a community like Eugene and that he has the resources he needs to succeed at Oregon.
“A lot of coaches hang onto these moments, and they don’t do anything or don’t say anything,” he said in November. “No. 1 because they don’t want egg on their face when they decide to do something else, No. 2 because they’re concerned about things that I’m not concerned about, like getting a better contract. I’m taken care of extremely well here at Oregon. I have the resources I need here at Oregon to be really, really successful. I’m not motivated by that. I’m motivated by winning. I’m motivated by being elite here. Our players deserve my complete focus. Our fans deserve the best product on the field. It’s outside noise; it didn’t before, it doesn’t matter now.
Lanning
“We talk about outside noise a lot in our program, I guess the reality here is No. 1, my name and our program would never be a topic of conversation for another school if we didn’t have something here that everybody else wanted. The reason we have something here that everybody else wants, that’s because of what our players, our coaches, the support that exists here at Oregon have created.
“I think I’ve been really, really clear here since Day 1, everything I want exists right here. I’m not going anywhere. There’s zero chance that I would be coaching somewhere else. I’ve got unfinished business here; there’s a lot that I want to accomplish here at Oregon. My No. 1 priority is being elite here at Oregon and we have the resources, the tools — anybody that can’t understand why you would want to be here at this place does not understand exactly what exists here.”
Lanning added he has three children, a 10, 12 and 13-year-old, that he wants to raise in a community like Eugene and that he has the resources he needs to succeed at Oregon.
“A lot of coaches hang onto these moments, and they don’t do anything or don’t say anything,” he said in November. “No. 1 because they don’t want egg on their face when they decide to do something else, No. 2 because they’re concerned about things that I’m not concerned about, like getting a better contract. I’m taken care of extremely well here at Oregon. I have the resources I need here at Oregon to be really, really successful. I’m not motivated by that. I’m motivated by winning. I’m motivated by being elite here. Our players deserve my complete focus. Our fans deserve the best product on the field. It’s outside noise; it didn’t before, it doesn’t matter now.
Lanning
