The bye week is useful because it changes the normal rhythm of the season. Oregon gets extra time for treatment, development and self-scouting, and the players get at least a little more time away from the weekly grind. Dan Lanning talked this week about using the break to attack improvement while also finding moments for connection and managing the workload of a long season.
Recruiting is part of that equation, too, and Lanning was unusually direct about how the staff intends to use the opportunity. Asked whether a bye week this close to signing day becomes more about protecting the current class or getting ahead on future cycles, he did not choose between them.
“It’s all of it,” Lanning said. “You’re always trying to enhance your team, feel good about the class that we have. Right now, I want to continue to maintain the class that we have and then go ahead and evaluate the future and what that looks like.”
That gives us a pretty good
