After an incredibly busy two-week schedule since the Pac-12 Championship game, Oregon head coach Dan Lanning is back where he feels the most at home.
On the practice field.
Lanning stepped up to the mic on Friday afternoon and talked about being back in Eugene and on the practice field preparing his team for a New Year’s Six bowl game.
“It’s good to be out there with our players,” said Lanning.
“A lot of us have been out on the road the last few weeks here, chasing a lot of other players. So it’s good to be back with ours. Our guys had a good day at work, but still got a lot of work ahead of us. The great thing about bowl prep is you get a little extra time. So today was really about us. It’s going to continue to be about us but excited to get out there and go to work.”
Having had two weeks off of their normal practice schedule since the championship game in Las Vegas, Lanning explained the ramp-up process to facing Liberty on New Years Day in the Fiesta Bowl.
“It’s more of a reset for us” said Lanning.
“It’s more of an early fall camp practice. Like getting out there, good on good work, right? Going out there doing individuals. The stuff that matters in bowl games, you see it show up every single year — tackling, penalties, those are the things you have to address, ball security. So it was a lot of really a different format than what it would be during a typical week.
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