Oregon head coach Dan Lanning shared his resolution to success for the 12-team School Soccer Playoff.
“Simply win. Simply win,” Lanning stated to sports activities columnist John Canzano on his “The Bald Confronted Reality” radio present. “They cannot deny you when you simply win. You’ll be able to’t complain when you simply win.”
The Geese are 12-0, the one undefeated group within the nation, going into Saturday’s Huge Ten championship sport versus Penn State. No different group is in a greater place so far as controlling its standing within the CFP bracket. Win on Saturday and Oregon holds its place as the highest seed.
ESPN’s contract is with the SEC.
Dan Lanning: “That’s the way it works. Let’s not fake it doesn’t work completely different than that.”
Additionally, a message for three-loss groups whining and complaining: “They’ll’t deny you when you simply win… When you lose three video games, disgrace on you.”
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Even with a loss, the Geese are in a superb place, although they will not have a first-round bye. However that will go towards Lanning’s components in stopping exterior forces from affecting his group’s destiny.
Canzano asserted that ESPN “are SEC honks” because the convention’s TV companion and can thus tout groups like Texas, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama for high spots within the CFP rankings. Lanning did not dispute that notion.
“They pay the payments, proper? I imply, does not the SEC pay their payments? Who’s their contract with?” he stated. “That is the way it works. Let’s not fake it does not work completely different than that.”
Lanning’s apparent counterpoint is that nobody on the CFP committee, analysts on ESPN, school soccer media or biased fan bases can dispute the place of a group that hasn’t misplaced.
Nonetheless, the Oregon coach took a further shot on the groups sad over probably getting excluded from the CFP bracket as a result of they misplaced video games through the common season. These embrace three SEC groups — Alabama, Ole Miss and South Carolina — with 9–3 data. (Perhaps Clemson from the ACC is included in that bunch, as properly.)
“When you lose three video games,” he stated, “disgrace on you — proper?”
