A good leader leads from the front, and that’s exactly what Oregon head coach Dan Lanning did after his Ducks suffered an embarrassing blowout loss in the Rose Bowl. Losing 41-21 actually makes this game sound closer than it was. Oregon got boat raced right out of the gate.
But Lanning, a tremendous leader and motivator, tried to shoulder blame for the way his team performed on New Year’s Day in the Rose Bowl.
“They clicked tonight, we didn’t. I didn’t get our team prepared, and that’s a great team,” Lanning said after the game. “When you play a great team like Ohio State, you can’t not be clicking on all cylinders. And they were, they were clicking on all cylinders. We didn’t really have the ability to stop them, and didn’t have the ability to get something going for us on offense. We haven’t faced a lot of moments like that this year.”
“It’s an unbelievable team. Coach Day and his staff have done an unbelievable job there. But I don’t want to discredit what our players are able to accomplish. This year, we had a great team, you know? We just ran into a great team tonight. We didn’t play our best. So credit to those guys.”