FSU has fired Coach Taggart, and apparently he expected to get a $17M buyout. But as the Tampa Bay Times reports, apparently FSU and Taggart never actually got around to signing a contract: When this happened at UO with Mike Bellotti, President Lariviere fired Melinda Grier, the general counsel that…
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Saul Hubbard has the sad news in the RG here, along with a list of the current top 100. Ted Sickinger’s amazing 2011 story on how the people of Oregon came to be paying former Duck football coach Mike Bellotti $500K a year in pension benefits is here. In essence,…
Ted Sickinger’s amazing 2011 story on how the people of Oregon came to be paying former Duck coach Mike Bellotti $500K a year in pension benefits is here. In essence, Bellotti PERS payout is based on all the money he got in bonuses and Nike deals, even though the state never…
Good news on PERS. High investment earnings and Kitzhaber’s cuts mean that it’s now 87% funded. I think that’s the best of any state pension fund. Ted Sickinger has the report, here. But let’s face it, no one reads this blog for the good news. And the bad news is…
5/27/2013: Potential changes in PERS make this workshop a must for all UO faculty. Friday at 8PM, in the Lariviere smoking lounge at the UO Faculty Club. Dave Frohnmayer will open with some advice on how to negotiate a fat golden parachute to supplement PERS. Step #1 is to convince your colleagues you’re…
Bellotti was able to take advantage of a variety of loopholes – including a well timed divorce and remarriage, plus payments based on Nike earnings for which no contributions were made – to get a budget busting $500,000 a year PERS payoff. Ted Sickinger of the Oregonian did an amazing…
2/14/2012: From the Philadelphia Inquirer. Penn State has now begun to post documents about the scandal and about university operations in general (budgets, contracts) at http://openness.psu.edu/ Meanwhile here at UO we still don’t know what the Kelly/Lyles scandal will cost – just that the jocks have convinced Randy Geller that…
12/11/2011: Under the NCAA cartel, none of his players will get a dime. Fascinating, carefully researched story by Ted Sickinger in the Oregonian on how Mike Bellotti came to be collecting $490,000 a year in PERS, most of which will ultimately be paid by Oregon taxpayers: The statutes governing PERS…
From the SJ. More in this Oregonian story. The searchable list of all with annual payout > $100,000 is here. Many familiar UO names. Top 10 (based on 10-1-11 Gross Monthly Allowance) 1. Robert Bellotti: $41,341.672. Frederick Keller: $31,459.45 3. Lesley Hallick: $23,917.22 4. Steven Goldschmidt: $21,517.245. David Frohnmayer: $21,027.216.…
5/24/2010: From Rachel Bachman in the Oregonian: Lariviere recounted when Bellotti told him — amid his first year as athletic director after stepping down as football coach — that ESPN was seeking to hire him. “That’s when he told me that we owed him a great deal of money as…
5/22/2010: Normally when you make a request to the Oregon DOJ for public records, you get a reply from DOJ Attorney Michael Kron, the DOJ’s Government Transparency Czar. So when I asked for the full report on the Bellotti investigation, I was a little surprised to get a denial from…
5/22/2010: Rachel Bachmann in the Oregonian reports on two legislative hearings regarding UO: Democratic State Senator Rick Metsger will investigate allegations from union groups that money from the $200 million state bond sale for arena construction has been spent illegally, and …, the House Education Committee will hold a separate…
5/17/2010: President Larivere fired Melinda Grier almost 4 weeks ago. He didn’t let her resign or give her a golden parachute. He fired her and immediately took away her job responsibilities. This is almost unheard of. She had been Dave Frohnmayer’s General Counsel for 12 years, and Lariviere’s for 10…
4/8/2010: That headline on Steve Duin’s column in the Oregonian does not say it all. There’s plenty more in the article about Melinda Grier’s role in recent events: Let me see if I can get my arms around the challenge facing University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere if he is…
4/6/2010: There will be a lot of attention paid today to the unusual verbal contract which, apparently, Frohnmayer and Kilkenny negotiated with Bellotti with the help of UO General Counsel Melinda Grier – leaving President Lariviere holding the bag. Here’s another case of the sort of sweetheart deals that have…
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