The start of the college football season is nine days away. Nine days. Yep, we have just about survived the offseason and are ready to move past realignment talk. Actual games begin on Aug. 27, though not in the Pac-12. Yet, it’s definitely preview time. It’s time to raise various questions about numerous teams in the conference and their key offseason changes.
Some of the questions are extremely simple and obvious. Some of the questions are layered and complicated. It’s good to ask questions no one else is asking, but that doesn’t mean the obvious question right in front of your nose shouldn’t be presented as well.
Jon Wilner and John Canzano are diving into the mysteries of the Pac-12 Conference and its various teams heading into the 2022 season. You know they are very inquisitive, so follow the trails they carve out in some of their preseason football musings.
CAN DAN LANNING COACH?
Oregon coach Dan Lanning directs football practice April 5, 2022.
From John Canzano:
I told Chip Towers, the long-time Georgia football beat writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, exactly that a few days ago. Towers is visiting Oregon, doing a series on Lanning’s arrival as a preamble to the Bulldogs-Ducks Sept. 3. season opener in Atlanta. Towers is asking a lot of good questions. But the biggest mystery is one that Lanning himself will have to answer over the next few months: Can the guy coach?
WHAT’S THE NEXT STEP FOR OREGON STATE UNDER JONATHAN SMITH?
Jul 29, 2022; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Oregon State Beavers coach Jonathan Smith speaks during Pac-12 Media Day at Novo Theater. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
From Canzano:
The more you’re around Smith (and his players) the more you understand that the Beavers’ coach has a competitive fire, always percolating just beneath the surface. I asked him a couple of weeks ago what the next step was for his program.
“We want…
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