Despite new coordinator, the elite 'Oregon Offense' set to remain
Despite a couple of coordinator changes over the past few years, the Ducks' "Oregon Offense" is built to have elite staying power.
There were endless storylines and questions to ask going into the spring football season for the Oregon Ducks. With a long list of veterans returning for a final year after the way last season ended, plus the growing number of young stars set to contribute in major ways, Eugene was a hotbed for conversation in the month of March and April. Chief among them, though, was the offense, and what changes we might see from it.
After Will Stein left to take over as the head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats, former Oregon TE coach Drew Mehringer was promoted to the offensive coordinator role at Oregon, and this spring would be his first with play-calling duties in Eugene. What would that change bring? How would it show itself in the spring game?
Would Oregon's prolific offense of 2023, 2024, or 2025 be any different now in 2026? The short answer is 'no. ' Why?
Because Dan Lanning foresaw this ongoing coordinator churn, and he set out early to put a plan in place to deal with it. That plan was setting up the "Oregon Offense. " "It really started from the beginning," Lanning said earlier this spring.
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