Oregon’s Dan Lanning on Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy NIL Dig: ‘We Spend to Win’

Oklahoma State Cowboys head coach Mike Gundy has provided the No. 6-ranked Oregon Ducks with bulletin board material ahead of their Week 2 matchup in Eugene.

“We spent around $7 million over the last three years, and I think Oregon spent close to $40 [million] final 12 months alone,” Gundy stated on his weekly radio present. “That was only one 12 months. Now, I may be off a number of million. What I am saying is that they’re spending some huge cash. There’s some colleges which are doing that.”

Gundy additionally expressed that there is “chatter” amongst coaches that out-of-conference scheduling “ought to be based mostly on the monetary scenario for every college.”

Oregon head coach Dan Lanning responded.

“I’ve acquired a ton of respect for Coach Gundy. In the end, how blessed are we being at a spot that is invested in successful? If you wish to be a top-10 crew in faculty soccer, you higher be invested in successful, and we spend to win. Some individuals save to have an excuse for why they do not,” Lanning stated on Monday. “I am unable to converse on their scenario. I don’t know what they acquired of their pockets over there. I am certain UT Martin perhaps did not have as a lot as them final week, they usually performed, so we’ll let it play out.”

This is not the primary time that Oregon has been on the heart of NIL criticism/humor. Finally 12 months’s SEC Media Days, Georgia head coach Kirby Good joked that he wished he may get his arms on the NIL cash that Nike co-founder Phil Knight is “sharing with Dan Lanning.” Knight, the proprietor of Nike, grew up in Portland, roughly an hour-and-a-half north of Oregon’s campus, and attended Oregon as a scholar.

Each the Geese and Cowboys had been victorious in Week 1, as Oregon dealt with Montana State (59-13) and Oklahoma State beat Tennessee-Martin (27-7). In what was his first profession begin for the Geese, quarterback Dante Moore – who backed up 2024 Heisman Trophy finalist Dillon Gabriel final season and performed his 2023 freshman season at UCLA – threw for 213 yards and three touchdowns, whereas posting a 199.1 passer ranking and finishing 78.3% of his passes. 

Oregon is coming off a 13-1 season that noticed it win the Large Ten in its first 12 months within the convention and declare the No. 1 seed within the Faculty Soccer Playoff earlier than shedding to Ohio State within the quarterfinal spherical; Lanning is in his fourth season at Oregon, with this system 36-6 over that span (2022-present).

Oklahoma State is coming off a season that noticed it end 3-9 general, 0-9 in Large 12 play and fail to qualify for a bowl recreation for the primary time since 2005; Gundy is in his twenty first season as Oklahoma State’s head coach, with this system 170-88 over that span (2005-present).

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