FROM OREGON COACH DAN LANNING via YAHOO SPORTS

“I want to take a quick second to say something that’s important to our players. I wouldn’t normally hop into this, but I wanted everybody to understand this is not political in any way.

As a dad of three kids, a 13-year-old, a 12-year-old, a 10-year-old, I see at times what’s going on in this country and I have a platform where it’s worth saying something about.

What I’ll say right now is where is the respect for human life?

I think there is a lot more than this, people can say ‘Let’s make it about guns,’ [or] ‘Let’s make it about mental health.’ Why can’t we use a common sense approach and make it about everything?

“This isn’t me taking a stance, but our players told me this spring that gun violence was really important to them. I just want to ask everybody what are we doing about it?

We can continue to sit around and expect different results. Don’t think I’m sitting here talking about gun control. Don’t think I’m not talking about mental health. I’m talking about all of it.

We’ve got a lot of smart people in this country, how about we do something to fix it?

I know that means a lot to our players, it certainly means something to me when I send my three kids to school and expect to see them come home.

“I think enough’s enough and at some point, we’ve got to look at ourselves, take a hard look in the mirror and figure out where we can support the people that are having problems with mental health in this country.

Where can we support making sure people who shouldn’t have weapons don’t have weapons and support our law enforcement to where they can help handle situations when situations arise.

Again, I’m not trying to be political, but I do care about human life and I do care about human decency, and I hope at some point we can take a stand and do something about it.”