Lananna, 52, becomes the third-highest paid coach at Oregon behind football coach Mike Bellotti and men's basketball coach Ernie Kent. His five-year contract includes an annual base salary of $150,000 but could balloon to as much as $600,000 if incentives are met. In addition to becoming the director of track and field and cross country, Lananna is the only coach in the Oregon athletic department with an associate athletic director's title.
Lananna (rhymes with "banana") made his national reputation while coaching at Stanford, where from 1992 to 2003 he built a powerhouse that was reminiscent of Oregon's heyday in the 1970s. His men's and women's teams in track and cross country combined for five NCAA championships and 17 Pacific-10 Conference championships.
He has been the athletic director at Oberlin College in Ohio since leaving Stanford.
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