6/14/2011: 118 MPH in a Nissan Stanza?
This athlete’s work for the Ducks would have earned him $500,000 or so last year, except that under NCAA rules smiling Chip Kelly and the other UO coaches got to keep it all.
And the NCAA thinks the problem is that a UO employee rented him a car for the weekend?
USA Today reports that Mark Emmert of the NCAA has called an emergency meeting of university presidents to address the recent problems.
Goal number one is to figure out how to save the cartel. Emmert’s take is reportedly over $1 million a year.
Update: The UO employee is talking to KEZI reporter Steve Andress. Apparently it’s not former VP of Academic Affairs and Interim Athletic Director Lorraine Davis. She’s still collecting a healthy paycheck from the athletic department – $125,000 for part-time work. Plus expenses, of course.
R-G said it was an Altima.
Which is a little different than a Stanza. Stanza was discontinued in ’92.
But 118 in a Stanza would be some feat indeed.
You have no faith in the man. Go Ducks!
A heinous crime: they returned a rental car with a 5/8 full tank. I cannot even imagine what that cost.
But the NCAA is now investigating. http://kezi.com/sports/215066
Fifty-three mph over the limit, the third speeding ticket in a year and a half, driving while suspended, in a car that someone else rented… If you’re going 65 and someone 100 yards behind you is going 118,he’ll overtake you in less than four seconds. That’s dangerous. Agreed that the NCAA has other matters it ought to be pursuing, but this is serious business and Harris deserves some pretty heavy punishment.
By the way, was he given a sobriety test? Or did the cop who didn’t consider 118 mph reckless driving decide not to bother with that?
There is no limit on bad judgement. The classified UO employee works in Business Affairs Office and everyone in her hierarchy including her first line supervisor, Departmental Director, all the way up to her embattled VPFA were given substantial pay raises in 2011.