Preseason camp begins Wednesday for the Oregon football team, which is entering its second season under head coach Dan Lanning and the last in the current configuration of the Pac-12 Conference.
At the program's preseason media day for local reporters Monday, Lanning largely avoided big-picture topics such as conference realignment. But he and several dozen players addressed the state of the Ducks' program entering practice Wednesday afternoon, a little more than four weeks out from the regular-season opener against Portland State in Autzen Stadium on Sept. 2.
Some takeaways from Monday's media day session in The Club at Autzen Stadium:
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