Athletics info, scandals

Timeline of events regarding the Duck BBall rape allegations: https://uomatters.com/2014/05/gottgate-timeline-and-questions.html

Some reference documents on the UO Intercollegiate Athletics Committee (IAC) and UO athletics, updated occiasionally.

Random marijuana testing policy:

• Berdahl, Mullens try to sneak random drug testing of “student-athletes”through during summer, Senate and IAC leaders oppose, General Counsel Randy Geller calls out Senate and IAC head and members:

… Your allegations about the University’s rulemaking processes are offensive and false , as are the comments made publicly by members of the Intercollegiate Athletics Committee. I ask that you apologize in writing to President Berdahl, Rob Mullens, and me. I also ask that you censure the members of the IAC who have published offensive and defamatory comments.

• Randy Geller attacks former Oregon Attorney General over his investigation of the Mike Bellotti payoff scandal, is forced to apologize.
• Gottfredson imposes “temporary” random drug testing w/o Senate or IAC approval. 
• RG editorial board trashes secret process and Gottfredson’s approval.
• SCOTUS Vernonia decision.
• Current policy:

UO Athletics governance:

• Current Senate IAC charge and membership. Senate IAC archives including minutes. Additional Senate athletic document archives. Old Senate IAC charge and useful definitions of terms.
• NCAA bylaws.
• 2001-2004 Athletics Task Force Report. A thorough, well researched, and mostly failed attempt to strengthen UO faculty governance over athletics.
• Former interim UO President Bob Berdahl’s failed 2012 attempts to gut the IAC.
• OUS IMD on athletics. Section 8, starts at page 57. Now 15 years old and pretty funny:

If such efforts, over a five-year period, are unsuccessful, the Board will reassess its position and instruct the University of Oregon and Oregon State University whether or not to implement those cost containment policies even in the absence of Pac-10, NCAA, and regional action.

• UO tells NCAA certification inspectors that the faculty have oversight of athletics, then tells faculty to get lost.
• UO runs athletic “special admits” through a special committee, refuses to allow IAC participation or membership on that committee. More later. Comparison of PAC-12 special admits for athletics.

Duck sports and Oregon politics:

UO’s infractions and compliance efforts:

• Michael Glazier, an attorney with Bond, Schoeneck and King and a former NCAA insider who is known as “The Cleaner“, was hired by UO on a $150,000 to investigate and report on the Chip Kelly/Willie Lyles recruiting violations. Contract and invoices here. After a petition to the DOJ the UO administration revealed they are charging the academic side for half the cost of the Glazier investigation.
• Willie Lyles is working for $8 an hour in a Houston grocery store, says Kelly cheated him out of promised $25,000 second payment.
• UO can fine Chip Kelly, contract language here.
• Summary of the likely infractions process for UO, from the Oregonian.

Duck financial info:

• Why does athletics pay UO a 3% overhead rate, while other UO auxiliaries and the UO student government must pay 7-8%? Because Dave Frohnmayer and Pat Kilkenny cut this secret deal 2 weeks before Frohnmayer stepped down.
• Official UOAD website with once secret financial info and MOUs – released courtesy of the Oregon DOJ and Jamie Moffitt.
• Federal EADA reports – basic financial data by school, sport.
• USA Today databases on AD salaries, etc.
• UO complimentary ticket policy.
• summary spreadsheet of 2009-2011 FTR General Operations
• summary spreadsheet of 2009-2011 FTR Mens sports
• summary spreadsheet of 2009-2011 FTR Womens sports
• 5/8/2011 Greg Bolt Register Guard stories on the $2 million academic subsidies for Jaqua Center tutoring
• Rob Mullens pays Tennessee Tech “student athletes” $500,000 to play Ducks. Just kidding, their coaches will get all the money.
• More UO football game contracts.
• NFL Stadiums depress local wages and hiring.

• 2012 update and contract for AD Rob Mullens ($600K +)
• Rob Mullens and Bob Berdahl give 21% raises and bonuses to coaches.
• 2011 athletic department employee car stipends

Effect of athletics on donations to academics

• UO Professor Dennis Howard’s ODE interview. His research abstract, from UO data: Both alumni and non-alumni show an increasing preference toward directing their gifts to the intercollegiate athletics department – at the expense of the donations to academic programs. Sperber’s (2000) assertion that giving to athletics undermines academic giving is strongly supported. 
• Link to CAE data on UO giving trends.
• UO athletic vs. academic donation trends.

UO IAC retreat material. These are annual meetings of the IAC and principals in UO athletics and other UO administrators who deal with athletics issues. Typically held in September.

• 2005 retreat minutes. (Some history, Myles Brand, Grier’s role.)
• 2006 retreat minutes.
• 2007 not clear if there was a retreat.
• 2008 retreat minutes.
• 2009 no retreat minutes kept.
• 2010 retreat agenda. (No minutes kept.)
• 2011 retreat was not held.
• The 2012 IAC retreat was held Wednesday, 9/19/2012. Minutes will be posted when available.

UO IAC meeting minutes:

• regular pre 2009, see archives
• 2009-2010. None, the IAC did not keep minutes this year. Some 2010-2011 minutes are also missing.
• November 3 2010
• November 20 2010
• Jan 19, 2011
• Feb 16, 2011
• April 6 2011
• April 27 2011
• June 1 2011: Awards and banquets fluff from AD Mullens, invalid IAC chair election held.
• Misc 2011-2012 minutes here. (There were many complaints with the accuracy and availability of these minutes, which were kept by an athletics department employee.)
• April 19 2012 minutes (draft) and attachments:

• Loss of institutional control powerpoint

• 2012-2013 minutes as available.

Historical athletic reform attempts at UO:

• Register Guard publisher Alton Baker’s editorial – from 1934.
• 2001-2004 Athletics Task Force Report. A thorough, well researched, and mostly failed attempt to strengthen UO faculty governance over athletics.
• Steve Prefontaine speaks out in favor of paying athletes: “Not bitter, outraged.”

Some misc UO Senate reports:

• IAC Financial Report, May 2011
• IAC Updated Legacy Model Report, January 2011
• IAC Report on Women’s Sports Numbers, May 2011
• IAC EADA Report, 2005-2009

Books and reference articles:

• The Shame of College Sports: Taylor Branch won a Pulitzer for his civil rights histories. Here he takes on the NCAA cartel.
• David Ripath is a former NCAA compliance specialist at WVU who came clean about how he kept players eligible, and was then attacked by the NCAA and its minions. His book is called Tainted Glory.
• Andy Zimbalist, Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports. 2001. “Zimbalist combines groundbreaking empirical research and a talent for storytelling to provide a firm, factual basis for the many arguments that currently rage about the goals, history, structure, incentive system, and legal architecture of college sports. He paints a picture of a system in desperate need of reform and presents bold recommendations to chart a more sensible future.”
• Billy Hawkins, The New Plantation. 2010. “Does the NCAA have a rule that black people can’t make money off college sports?”
• South Park’s take on the NCAA and “student athletes” – apparently based on Billy Hawkins’s arguments.