Georgia DC to be Oregon's next head coach
https://twitter.com/BruceFeldmanCFB/status/1469790525825847297?s=20
if someone can embed great because I am technologically deficient
December 11th, 2021 at 5:14 PM ^
And this time, we mean it!
Or do we......? Maybe the new source confirming the original source as accurate turns out to be the original source and not a new source.
December 11th, 2021 at 5:14 PM ^
Dan Lenning is the name by the way, but I figured Georgia's DC would mean more to you lol
December 11th, 2021 at 5:38 PM ^
Actually that *checks notes*...is NOT his name.
December 11th, 2021 at 9:22 PM ^
Yeah it's Dan Leno
December 11th, 2021 at 5:17 PM ^
Are we sure this time, because there sure was a lot of disputing this last time.....like just yesterday, sigh.
December 11th, 2021 at 6:49 PM ^
Its official this time. Good to see Finebaum be wrong again.
December 11th, 2021 at 5:21 PM ^
Hopefully he does a DJ Durkin to Georgia and their defense is asleep the whole game!
December 11th, 2021 at 5:25 PM ^
I think he already pulled a durkin during the sec championship game. I imagine he’s leaving before esd
December 11th, 2021 at 8:17 PM ^
According to reports, he will coach in playoffs against us.
December 12th, 2021 at 12:24 AM ^
Kirby is a defensive coach. I really don't expect their defense to be any worse because of this.
December 11th, 2021 at 5:21 PM ^
So did we or didn't we land on the moon?
December 11th, 2021 at 5:29 PM ^
That moon landing this is just a twitter rumor, but sadly It is confirmed that Keith Jackson has died.
December 11th, 2021 at 7:02 PM ^
The cube spotted by the Chinese rover on the moon is rumored to be the studio where they filmed the fake moon landing!
December 12th, 2021 at 4:43 AM ^
Depends...which moon are we talking about?
December 11th, 2021 at 5:30 PM ^
I for one, think he should get to work on signing the 22' Ducks.
December 11th, 2021 at 5:37 PM ^
He kinda HAS to leave now, doesn’t he? He can’t be working on Oregon’s recruiting while coaching his old team. Devil and the deep blue sea.
December 11th, 2021 at 5:48 PM ^
Smart's statement was that he will still coach in the playoffs but they elevated two others to co-defensive coordinators - Schumann and Muschamp.
December 11th, 2021 at 5:47 PM ^
I’d be more optimistic about this if Kirby Smart weren’t a strong defensive coach in his own right, quite capable of keeping the ship running.
Still, I’d rather they lose coordinators than us.
December 11th, 2021 at 5:47 PM ^
Would they ever go after MacDonald? He’s an alumnus.
December 11th, 2021 at 6:08 PM ^
No, McDonald is too young and unproven and whatever else I need to say to ensure other teams keeps their hands off of our coaching staff. Seriously though, our coaches really seem to enjoy working together and I don’t expect any of them to leave unless it is a significant promotion (ie a blue blood head coaching job).
December 11th, 2021 at 5:47 PM ^
I think it’s unlikely he coaches in the playoffs.
Either way I’m not sure this will affect them all that much. If anything, it will just mean they don’t gameplan much new or exotic, so whatever our coaches see on tape is what they’ll see in the game.
December 11th, 2021 at 7:47 PM ^
So, Dirkin leaving us didn't affect us much? May be not. But keeping the same defense, as you said, is a big deal. It affects their gameplay a lot.
December 12th, 2021 at 8:41 AM ^
I don’t think Durkin is a good comp because Harbaugh coaches offense and is hands off w defense. Kirby Smart coaches D.
December 11th, 2021 at 5:48 PM ^
I am a bit surprised that the Oregon HC Job still does not have the same status as other blue-blood programs, with all the facilities and the Nike money, I would have thought it to be a destination job for some top tier HC, guess it's not at that level yet.
December 11th, 2021 at 6:20 PM ^
If Urban Meyer wasn't an idiot he would have stayed away from the Jacksonville job, making him the perfect candidate for Oregon.
December 11th, 2021 at 6:48 PM ^
There’s not that much of a local recruiting base there. California isn’t too far away but everyone else recruits there, too. Michigan and ND can sell their academic reputations to faraway recruits but UO, not so much. The Nike money helps but can only get them so far. If anything they’ve probably been punching above their weight class the last 20 years.
December 11th, 2021 at 8:04 PM ^
They recruit California very well, especially northern CA which is right next door.
December 12th, 2021 at 12:57 AM ^
They do really good in California and it's close enough to give them a close-to-home edge over almost everyone else. Especially as a top Pac 12 program flush with money, great facilities and a great fanbase. Their success isn't a fluke or them punching above their weight. Kelly wanted the NFL, and Taggart and Cristobal went home. There are very few other places they would have left for. I'd bet Kelly and Taggart regret it. We'll see about Cristobal. Oregon is an excellent job for a CFB head coach.
December 11th, 2021 at 6:57 PM ^
What’s a rerun?
December 11th, 2021 at 6:02 PM ^
Just saw Lanning is staying "through the playoffs."
Let's make that through 2021 whenever the game with Michigan is over.
Muschamp to become a co-DC.
December 11th, 2021 at 6:08 PM ^
So he’s just leaving his new team’s recruits hanging? You can’t coach two teams at once.
December 11th, 2021 at 6:40 PM ^
Coaches do this all the time.
If it were the other way around people would be saying he's quitting on his team.
Some head coaches even stay...Scott Frost was pulling double duty when they beat Auburn en route to their undefeated season at UCF.
The current Oregon staff will continue to recruit and close out the class, UGA can probably make Muschamp an official recruiter and Lanning would need to stay on campus.
December 11th, 2021 at 6:46 PM ^
Yeah, he did it for almost a month.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/916399001
Flew to Lincoln, did his presser then went right back to UCF and coached them like he always would've, only did stuff for Nebraska in the middle of the night.
I remember after that Auburn win "national championship ?" he honestly looked like he hadn't slept for 3 weeks. I almost felt bad for him...almost.
Just like I almost felt bad for him this year with all the close losses...almost.
But '97 lives, we had the better team, he can keep talking shit but they beat Missouri on an illegal play and Fat Phil Fulmer voting us 4th in the final polls (instead of even 2nd) is the only reason it was a split vote.
Fulmer was mad about Manning not winning over Woodson.
Fuck Frost and Fulmer FOREVER.
December 11th, 2021 at 7:29 PM ^
Exceptionally well stated! Especially “fuck Frost and Fulmer forever.”
December 12th, 2021 at 9:18 PM ^
Agree
you can’t do 2 jobs at once
qhynrush to a decision on hiring him if he isn’t even starting until after M beats Georgia ?
losing 3 weeks of recruiting and putting a staff together
December 11th, 2021 at 6:07 PM ^
Good. More distractions please.
DC leaving, QB controversy…anything to mess with their flow.
December 11th, 2021 at 6:19 PM ^
This pleases me
December 11th, 2021 at 6:20 PM ^
Hopefully he's a little distracted.
December 11th, 2021 at 6:24 PM ^
This news is as good as when it was posted here yesterday.
December 11th, 2021 at 6:28 PM ^
Good try, but it was being refuted repeatedly yesterday. It’s news now that it’s official.
December 11th, 2021 at 6:40 PM ^
Lol. It’s NOT official by any means. Official will be announcement by Oregon. It’s just a newer “spurces say”. Ot saying it isn’t true, just NOT official.
December 11th, 2021 at 7:09 PM ^
Kirby Smart literally released a statement congratulating Lanning on taking the Oregon job, but go on.
December 11th, 2021 at 6:39 PM ^
To be fair, after it was posted yesterday, a bunch of sources came out and said he hadn't been hired yet and the report was false.
December 11th, 2021 at 6:26 PM ^
He spent all his per diem on complicated shirts!
Wait. That's Dan Flashes.
December 11th, 2021 at 7:39 PM ^
Will Muschamp is a bad head coach but a very good coordinator. They could be better on D than they were for the SEC championship.
December 11th, 2021 at 8:37 PM ^
Not sure how long Muschamp has been there nor am I positive on how much this matters, but Georgia has been a base 3-4 since before Kirby Smart got there and Muschamp AFAIK is a 4-3 guy. By traditional standards (meaning back in the day) the dlines play very different. 3-4 was a 2 gap scheme while 4-3 was a one gap scheme. With the modernization of the game, I'm not completely sure how much these schemes have been melded together but I would imagine the lines are more blurred than before. I have hope that Muschamp is not as good of a 3-4 guy but it also depends on how the duties are divided up. I know he used to work for Saban but that was the LSU/Miami Dolphins days and I THINK Saban was transitioning from 4-3 to 3-4 around that time.
December 11th, 2021 at 8:02 PM ^
He’s still staying through the end of the season. But at the very least, it’s a distraction.
December 13th, 2021 at 8:32 AM ^
File this under excuses Georgia is going to use for the loss.
This is good news for M, it absolutely will hurt their defense, but no more bad news for Georgia, I want their best shot, and this looks almost too easy.