Ducks tell the NCAA they receive $1,398,094 in state support

7/20/2010: On the UO Athletics website at goducks.com, you will (still) find this statement from Mike Bellotti:

The mission of the Duck Athletic Fund is to raise funds to offset the expenses of student-athlete scholarships and related athletic support at the University of Oregon. …

The University of Oregon Athletic Department is financially self-sufficient and does not receive any support from state funds. 

This is the mantra of the athletic department when justifying big salaries for coaches, buyouts, etc. Frohnmayer promised the legislature athletics would stay self-sufficient when he got the state to guarantee the Arena bonds, and President Lariviere regularly repeats it as a fact.

Is it? As it happens UO has to report their financial data to the NCAA. USA Today got this data from public records requests to UO, and posted it here. Thanks guys. For 2008-09 UO’s athletic department told the NCAA they received $1,398,094.00 in “Direct state or other government support”.  

How does the athletic department reconcile these contradictory statements?