8/30/2013: President Gottfredson’s faculty supporters – OK, make that his faculty supporter – have argued for that past year that, after getting his UO Board, he would finally turn his efforts to cleaning up Johnson Hall.
Replacing Bean was a good first step, and rumors tonight down at the faculty yacht club’s map room are that more substantial changes are on the way, perhaps accelerated by his anger over the “University of Nike” humiliation. We’ll see how far it goes:
Speaking of change, Weiler’s been demoted (check the RG) and presumably to blame for some slight against The Plantation. (Maybe he peed in the black porcelain without a permission note?) More symbolic “change” which amounts to nothing and signals everything about Gottfredson’s impotence.
Yup. Seems like the U of Nike thing had more to do with Pintens though.
And Mullens, who pointedly refused to back down from the U Nike claim.
Internal politics. Pintens is a literal talking head — young, nice but vacuous. Fits right in with IMG et al.
MG may or may not have a head, but he’s sure not talking.
Have you ever checked into IMG and it’s contracts with the UO? I wonder how much control they have over the UOAD and which salaries they subsidize?
I think the IMG stuff is pretty simple… IMG gives the athletic department $750,000 and the athletic department sells IMG our souls.
Yeah, but how much does each soul cost? And if a lot is given to one named soul, how much less does the AD need to fork over for the other less named? Inquiring minds want to know.
Got my more or lesses mixed up, but you know what I mean.
Bottom line: Mullens and crew will sell a player’s likeness, his name, his come-from-nowhere-but-look-at-him-now story, our image, our reputation, our bond rating… pretty much anything. They’ll sell access to our children, to allow cheap-beer companies to encourage them to drink, they’ll sell women’s uniforms for higher prices than men’s, just because the market demands it, without questioning whether it is right. They’ll sell the president of this whole stinking university an Autzen skybox for $375,000, where they will tell him that they’re changing the name to the University of Nike and that he’s going to love it, because they just did it. There’s no limit.
So now that you’ve vented, care to address the point?
The NFL concussion settlement sets a price on a player’s soul – somewhere in the seven-figure range:
Seeger said players who develop problems such as ALS, Alzheimer’s or severe dementia will receive a benefit, in some cases as high as $5 million. He also said the families of players who committed suicide will be eligible for “a seven-figure payout.”
Presumably Mr. Mullens has done his due diligence, and made sure that UO has adequate insurance to cover a similar settlement regarding NCAA football.
And what does this have to do with IMG and what salaries they subsidize at UO?
You aren’t getting it, apparently. They don’t directly subsidize salaries. Yet, absolutely everything is for sale, except the services of the athletes themselves.
You apparently don’t speak clearly. They do subsidize coaching contracts. You can read details on one of many here: http://projects.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/sports/24431675-41/kelly-season-oregon-salary-contract.csp
What else do they subsidize calling them bonuses, appearance guarantees etc? You don’t know–just say it.
Using your logic, if “everything is for sale” then there should be some evidence of it and who is buying whom.
These might be different Anons, smart ass.
I think the point is that if you just look, anywhere, you’ll see an administrator taking their piece and the athletes getting nothing.
Dog on NFL
UOmatters has posted several times on this issue and I am not in that much of a disagreement with the main points of the UOmatters argument. However, I would
frame it differently and I will also take this moment to predict that, everywhere but Texas, high school football will be gradually eliminated.
1) NFL players on average carry with them more kinetic energy and momentum than in the past (they are bigger and faster)
2) Concussive science was primitive and is now evolving rapidly.
3) These are grown men that sign a contract and these days, they should have
enough information to make an informed decision.
4) Said informed decision gets wiped out by the dollar amount of the contract and in this way, the NFL is a form of slave labor, not much different than
chained up gladiators. Therefore, they deserve much better long term health care than the current settlement provides.
5) I am fairly convinced that humans no longer have a soul – its has been robbed from us by our collective greed.
While I sing a similar lament for the non-souled, experience tells me souls do still abound. The problem is awakening and then further education, something that a university environment was known to accelerate rather than have it exacerbate worry over a graduate’s profitability. ‘How, when and where’ now that the world is increasingly about competition, profit and war?
Speaking of war, any anti-war activists left on campus or is everyone too mesmerized by obtaining their justified part of the pie?
“Smart ass”? How old are you??
Your point about athletes getting paid is not at all related to the original question of IMG subsidies. If you want to rant about administrators, fine, but it just serves to divert the topic to fine-tuned whining.