Oregon Ducks Dan Lanning Discusses the influence other college coaches have on him

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00:00To see that you can kind of stay even keel in a high pressure environment.

00:07So even though we're competitors, he wants to go have success and

00:11beat us and given the opportunity, the same is for us.

00:14The opportunity to play him, but that doesn't mean you can't have respect and

00:17admiration for the job that he's done there and the way that he handles himself.

00:20You coach with, under great coaches and

00:23like you said, you have relationships with good coaches.

00:25How much do you try to see kind of what those guys have done at their places and

00:29kind of pick their brains or just see the trends that they follow and

00:33what helps them be successful?

00:34Yeah, I always try to challenge myself to visit with guys and

00:38see if there's any secrets that they have or anything that's been really good for them.

00:42This off season is the first opportunity that I got to speak.

00:45I was at Georgia for a long time, you really don't talk to Clemson.

00:48I got the opportunity call, I just kind of shot Dabo a random text cuz I think he's done

00:54an unbelievable job there at Clemson for a long amount of time.

00:57And, you know, I had a lot of visits, we visited for, I don't know, 45 minutes.

01:01And it was great that he would give me that time to kind of just share some of his

01:05insights of what he's been able to do.

01:07But I'm always challenging myself to find different ways.

01:09It doesn't mean you're gonna do it, but just to hear somebody else's perspective,

01:12how they do things.

01:13Obviously, I visit with Coach Smart a lot.

01:14I mean, there's probably nobody that's influenced my career as much as Kirby has.

01:20Coach Norvell, Coach Saban, I've been fortunate enough to work with a lot of great

01:25ones, and I tap in a lot on those lines to be able to figure out, hey, is there something else that we can do?

01:31Yeah, Dante's been that year.

01:32Yeah.