It’s coaching rumor season, which means it’s also coaching denial season, and few have ever delivered a more emphatic denial than Oregon’s Dan Lanning on Monday evening.

Asked if he would be interested in the job at Texas A&M — which came open when Jimbo Fisher was fired on Sunday — Lanning didn’t mince words.

“I think I’ve been really, really clear here since Day 1, everything I want exists right here,” Lanning said, via OregonLive.com. “I’m not going anywhere. There’s zero chance that I would be coaching somewhere else. I’ve got unfinished business here; there’s a lot that I want to accomplish here at Oregon. My No. 1 priority is being elite here at Oregon and we have the resources, the tools — anybody that can’t understand why you would want to be here at this place does not understand exactly what exists here.

“…I’m not concerned about, like getting a better contract. I’m taken care of extremely well here at Oregon. I have the resources I need here at Oregon to be really, really successful. I’m not motivated by that. I’m motivated by winning. I’m motivated by being elite here. Our players deserve my complete focus. Our fans deserve the best product on the field. It’s outside noise — it didn’t matter before; it doesn’t matter now. I’ll continue to say it until I’m blue in the face: I’m going to be here at Oregon. That hasn’t changed. That won’t change.”

The 37-year-old Lanning is 19-4 in two seasons at Oregon, including 9-1 this year. The Ducks are ranked No. 6 nationally, with a solid shot at reaching the College Football Playoff should they win their final two regular season games and then win the Pac-12 championship game.

Lanning signed a contract extension in July, which pays him $7 million per year through 2028. He was a graduate assistant at Alabama in 2015, then worked at Memphis before becoming outside linebackers coach and later defensive coordinator under Kirby Smart at Georgia from 2018-21.