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Lanning is only 35 and landed his first graduate assistant position in 2011 at Pitt.  In the last 10 years, he has been at Pitt, Arizona State, Sam Houston State, Alabama, Memphis and Georgia; and at Georgia, he was promoted to DC after the 2018 season when Mel Tucker left for Colorado.  

Contrast this coaching path with Pritchard's, who is one year younger (34), was hired as a graduate assistant in 2010 at Stanford (Harbaugh's last year), had a number of assistant roles on defense and offense, became OC after the 2017 season and has been in that role for 4 years now.  Would any program of Oregon's caliber be looking to hire Tavita as head coach?  With the number of coaching slots being filled right now in Division 1 football, the answer is a clear "no".    

Maybe Lanning will be a bust at Oregon, and the young gun will be run out of Eugene after two seasons.  But the point I have been hammering on for the last three seasons is the caliber of Shaw's staff: it does not measure up to the best coaching staffs in the country; and unless that is fixed, we will not see any significant improvement.

And will Georgia be looking to poach Lance Anderson to replace Lanning?  Not a chance.

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Lanning is only 35 and landed his first graduate assistant position in 2011 at Pitt.  In the last 10 years, he has been at Pitt, Arizona State, Sam Houston State, Alabama, Memphis and Georgia; and at Georgia, he was promoted to DC after the 2018 season when Mel Tucker left for Colorado.  

Contrast this coaching path with Pritchard's, who is one year younger (34), was hired as a graduate assistant in 2010 at Stanford (Harbaugh's last year), had a number of assistant roles on defense and offense, became OC after the 2017 season and has been in that role for 4 years now.  Would any program of Oregon's caliber be looking to hire Tavita as head coach?  With the number of coaching slots being filled right now in Division 1 football, the answer is a clear "no".    

Maybe Lanning will be a bust at Oregon, and the young gun will be run out of Eugene after two seasons.  But the point I have been hammering on for the last three seasons is the caliber of Shaw's staff: it does not measure up to the best coaching staffs in the country; and unless that is fixed, we will not see any significant improvement.

And will Georgia be looking to poach Lance Anderson to replace Lanning?  Not a chance.