Oregon Ducks Coach Dan Lanning addresses how people could learn from the ducks locker room

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00:00You know, I think the U.S. could learn a lot from our locker room.

00:08I think the people in this world can learn a lot from our locker room.

00:10You walk in that locker room, you've got guys of different races,

00:12guys of different backgrounds, different religions,

00:16and you've got a team that loves each other.

00:18Like, tons of differences, tons of differences,

00:20where they come from, what they deal with,

00:22and ultimately you've got a team that loves each other.

00:25And I think we're missing some of that in our country.

00:27You know, you talk about how you recently found out, like, Charlie Kirk was an Oregon fan, right?

00:32I didn't know that.

00:34I heard for his wife Erica and their kids.

00:36Like, that sort of evil should never exist in our country, and that's what it is.

00:40It's evil.

00:40Like, I remember having to explain that to my family, right?

00:44I remember sitting down with my kids and explaining what happened,

00:46and they were talking about people talking about it at school, and it's just sad, right?

00:49But it's just as sad.

00:50You know, every day it seems like we deal with some sort of violence that's going on in our country,

00:54whether it's, you know, school kids in Colorado or kids in Minnesota at churches.

00:59I mean, life matters, you know?

01:02And I think we've lost sight of that, but I just wish the world could learn a little bit of something from our locker room

01:08because we've got a bunch of people with differences,

01:10and what you've got in there is a bunch of people that love there.

01:12And there's some people that will be disappointed about how much I said about this, right?

01:17And there will be some people that are disappointed that I didn't say enough, right?

01:20And I really don't care, right?

01:22What I do care about is if you disagree with me, if you hate me, if you don't like me, just know this, I love you.

01:27I absolutely love you, right?

01:30And life matters.

01:31And that's no way that Charlie should have experienced that, his family should have experienced that.

01:36There's no way that that evil should exist in this world,

01:39and we have to continue to identify and point it out and make sure that it's absolutely evil.

01:43There's no reason in the world that our kids, we should be worried about sending our kids to school.

01:48It's our most valuable commodity in the world.

01:50They should be protected, and the reality is there's just not a lot of common sense on both sides.

01:55Like, common sense says, oh, it's mental health, right?

01:58Common sense says, oh, it's guns.

01:59You know what?

02:00It's both.

02:01Like, let's have some common sense.

02:02Our kids should be the most protected thing in the world, right?

02:05They should have armed guards at every school because there's sick people.

02:09There's sick people in this world, right?

02:11And on top of that, sick people need help, and it should be really hard for a sick person to have a gun.

02:16It should be really hard, right?

02:18And if people can't see that from both sides, how disappointing is that?

02:21But I just know, like, when you see moments like that that exist right now in our country,

02:25like, I just think about my kids.

02:26And I hope, I remember I saw that video.

02:28It was disgusting.

02:30And I just told them, like, man, I hope my kids don't see that video.

02:33Like, how much does that suck?

02:34I hope Charlie's kids never see that video.

02:37Like, disgusting, right?

02:39And we glorify it.

02:42We praise it.

02:44You know, people are Internet warriors, and those are sick people.

02:47And at some point, we need to go look at sports because what our football team has is it has people on both sides of the fence, right?

02:55And there's fans that love our team that have a lot of differing opinions.

02:58And the truth is there's a lot of things Charlie said that I did not agree with at all.

03:02There's a lot of things he said that I did agree with.

03:04But what's disappointing is I can respect those differences.

03:07And somebody else couldn't.

03:09And they thought that they deserved to be God in that moment, and they didn't, right?

03:13And nobody should have to experience that.

03:15So, yeah, I got a lot of disappointment.

03:16We had a Bible study with our team.

03:19We talked about it with our team, and I think our team feels the same way.

03:22Regardless of views, I don't think they feel anybody ever deserves to experience what some people in our country are experiencing right now.

03:29It's super disappointing.

03:34It's super disappointing.

03:38I gotta guess.

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