8/28/2013: A modest proposal from the RG letters. You know, President Gottfredson must have received hundreds of letters and emails from parents, students, and alumni about the new football Sweat Shop. Some enterprising reporter ought to ask Dave Hubin for copies, and for the responses.
Just sell university to Nike
Since the University of Oregon will soon have its own governing board, I suggest that it sell the university to Nike, which could do away with all those pesky faculty and academic departments and just retain the Athletic Department.
Any remaining students could take classes online, or if they wanted a hard-copy professor they could go to Oregon State University. The buildings could be converted to sweatshops, and any students who can’t get a job could work there. Nike would have to upgrade the deteriorating buildings to meet OSHA standards.
Or if any highly rated 18-year-old behemoth is not impressed enough by the Athletic Performance Center to play at the UO, he could get his own building.
BUCKLIN MOON
Eugene
Wait, “Any remaining students could take classes online, or if they wanted a hard-copy professor they could go to Oregon State University.”–OSU, for those not paying attention, has far more online courses and programs than UO. Bucklin Moon needs to pay a little more attention to the details of his/her immodest proposal.
Snarky grumpy Eugene people are so funny!
One distinguished scholars opinion: http://www.uwyo.edu/uw/news/2013/08/why-athletics-matters-so-much-at-the-university-of-wyoming.html