A broad grin stretched across Dan Lanning’s face.
Lanning, who arrived in Athens to coach outside linebackers in Mel Tucker’s defense in January 2018, drew the short straw to speak to the media in New Orleans Saturday. The slot was originally held by Tucker, the ex-Bulldogs defensive coordinator-turned-Colorado head coach.
Lanning did the duty as professionally as he could, answering questions about position players he likely seldom coaches (such as Deandre Baker, a corner) and no-commenting questions about his interest in the Colorado defensive coordinator job.
One question, though, had the assistant coach clearly excited to answer.