Oregon Head Coach Dan Lanning Crushes Skip Bayless, Calls Him ‘Classless’

Oregon head coach Dan Lanning has caught a lot of heat for the pre-game speech about the Colorado Buffaloes that he told his team prior to Saturday’s game.

Yes, it was ironic and a little hypocritical that Lanning said Colorado was only playing for clicks while at the same time allowing ESPN cameras into his locker room to film his speech.

However, as anyone who has either coached football or been coached at a high level is aware, coaches will look for any little thing to fire up their team and give them a mental edge before heading on to the field.

That, of course, didn’t stop talking head Skip Bayless from reaching deep into his well of terrible hot takes while criticizing Dan Lanning and the Oregon Ducks.

“I’ve tried to tell you guys for two weeks there is a deep-rooted, venomous vengeance that is starting to manifest itself against Deion among white coaches,” Bayless said on Monday.

“And I’m not gonna say they’re all white because we saw what Jay Norvell did just two weeks ago. It’s deep-rooted and seeded because Deion didn’t pay any dues that they all had to pay.”

So Skip is “not gonna to say they’re all white” while saying “there is a deep-rooted, venomous vengeance that is starting to manifest itself against Deion among white coaches”? Got it. (Bayless continued to try and make it about race on Tuesday’s show.)

Monday night, Dan Lanning hammered Skip Bayless for his ridiculous take.

“I don’t know Skip at all, I’ve never had a conversation with him. I’ve watched him enough to know how often he gets it wrong, so that sounds about right,” Lanning said.

“But I mean, ultimately here’s what I say,” he continued. “We’re playing to win the game, right? And you saw a 15 second clip from a window view outside the house of what happens in the locker room, right? I know our locker room. I’m in the house 100 percent of the time. I know how our players felt going into that game and I know what it takes to motivate our players. That’s my job to motivate our players, right? He has a job. I have a job too, to get out there and to perform on the field.

“But inside that house they felt a certain way. They felt a certain way about a group stomping on the O. They felt a certain way about guys talking to them in the pregame and I’m proud of those guys because what they decided to do is talk with their pads, right? They didn’t want to do anything extra afterwards. They want to talk with their pads and they did that on Saturday.”

Lanning then proceeded to give Deion Sanders props.

“I’m also grateful and can clearly acknowledge that the attention that we got this Saturday, in large part, was due to due to Deion and what he’s doing to college football. And if anybody can’t see what he’s done for college football and how he’s bringing excitement to college football, you’re crazy, right? And I said that last week as well.”

After explaining why he went for it on fourth down and went for two point conversions during the Colorado game, Lanning circled back to Skip Bayless.

“I’m gonna do everything I can to win a game and everything I can to motivate my team,” said Lanning. “So you know, that to me is classless, you know, what he’s saying there, but I’m not really worried about it.”