Andrew Greif has the story in the Oregonian:
3/19/2014: Coach Altman didn’t know transfer had been accused of campus sex assault?
Another sad story from the seamy business of big-time college sports. Steve Mims has the details in the RG.
In earlier reports, losing OSU Coach Craig Robinson takes Altman to task for his recruiting, here. And the RG has a report on Altman’s pathetic graduation rate, here.
And in totally unrelated news, Andrew Greif of the Oregonian reports on the $25K bonus Altman got from UO for getting his (unpaid) team into the NCAA tournament. Assistants Kevin McKenna, Brian Fish, Tony Stubblefield and Josh Jamieson pocketed another $35 large.
Thanks to readers for these links, and Go Ducks!
Altman can claim whatever he likes. Who is going to challenge him as he gives his passive, low volume “aw, shucks, we didn’t know that” media response? Not one person. And why? Because he finds ways to take teams to the NCAA tourney. He doesn’t recruit students that happen to excel at basketball nor does he apparently care if they graduate or why they might seek a transfer to UO. He cares about winning at all cost.
Now comes an article by Andrew Greif detailing the kinds of players Altman has recruited: transfers vs high schoolers. It’s an interesting read that gives some insight between the lines where coaches don’t worry about their student players, but about their winning “sustainability”. If ever there was an article showcasing a university acting as semi-pro league member, this is it.
http://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2014/03/oregon_basketballs_success_win.html#incart_river
Meanwhile, elsewhere on campus a $500.00 award and the possibility to perform with the Eugene Symphony is big news. Imagine the huge bonus that the tuba coach got for his young protege’s fine efforts: http://music.uoregon.edu/breaking-news/somd-students-sweep-symphony-awards
and UO/RIGE announce their faculty award winners on facebook…..$5,000.00 for AMAZING work on the UO campus. Nothing like publicly recognizing how little we care about academics at UO (on FB no less!). Sco Dux!
The Faculty Research Awards were also announced in the following locations:
Around the O
http://around.uoregon.edu/content/recipients-use-uos-2014-faculty-research-awards-buoy-studies
Research Development Services website:
http://rfd.uoregon.edu/content/announcements
UO Research Newsletter:
http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=b22d8bd5a6b91f7bd975686a6&id=948b0f692f
Deans and Directors e-mail list
From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 12:32 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: deans-dirs: 2014 Faculty Research Award recipients announcement
Please distribute this announcement to your faculty.
The Vice President for Research and Innovation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2014 Faculty Research Awards.
The purpose of the Faculty Research Awards program is to stimulate research by providing faculty with support for research expenses, including travel, summer stipend, equipment, supplies, contractual services, shared facility use, and graduate or undergraduate student research assistance. Learn more about the awards at http://rfd.uoregon.edu/content/internal-funding-opportunities.
The Faculty Research Awards Committee composed of faculty appointed by the University Senate, evaluated proposals on the basis of their intellectual merit and made recommendations to the Vice President for funding. The Office of the Vice President thanks the committee members for their service in reviewing the proposals. This year, the Vice President for Research and Innovation Kimberly Andrews Espy funded twenty-one awards.
Congratulations to the 2014 Faculty Research Award recipients:
Mark Alfano, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, “Nietzsche’s Socio-Moral Psychology”
Melissa Michaud Baese-Berk, Assistant Professor, Linguistics, “Indexing Linguistic Expectation through Speech Rate”
Aletta Biersack, Professor, Anthropology, “Mining Among Ipili Speakers: An Ethnography of Global Connection”
Scott Bridgham, Professor, Biology & Environmental Studies, “Controls over methane cycling in tropical wetlands”
Stephanie Clark, Assistant Professor, English, “Prayer and the Gift: Theories of Prayer in Anglo Saxon England”
Philip Fisher, Professor, Psychology, “Demonstration of Feasibility of Resting State Functional Connectivity MRI Study of Infants with Prenatal Substance Exposure”
Jennifer Freyd, Professor, Psychology, “Institutional Betrayal”
Bryna Goodman, Professor, History, “Economics and the New Chinese Republic: Sovereignty, Capitalism, and Freedom in the Shanghai Bubble of 1921-22”
Evlyn Gould, Professor, Romance Languages, “Salons and Cénacles in Fin de Siècle Paris: the Unsung Influence of Catulle Mendès”
Sara Hodges, Professor, Psychology, “Women’s Perceptions of Feedback in STEM”
Dong Hoon Kim, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures, “Between Self-Reliance and Globalism: Commercial Filmmaking in North Korea”
Loren Kajikawa, Assistant Professor, Music, “Before Rap: DJs, MCs, and Pre-1979 Hip-Hop Performances”
Toby Koenigsberg, Associate Professor, Music, “Transforming Piano Instruction: Incorporating Jazz Improvisation into the Curricula”
Rebecca Lewis, Assistant Professor, Planning, Public Policy and Management, “Integrating Climate, Transportation and Land Use Planning in Oregon”
Andrew Lovering, Associate Professor, Human Physiology, “Effect of hypobaria on exercise and hypoxemia-induced Intrapulmonary shunt”
Christopher Michlig, Assistant Professor, Art, “Broken Type: Intergeneration Sustainability and Letterpress Printing”
Nicole Ngo, Assistant Professor, Planning, Public Policy and Management, “The global health impacts of intercontinental air pollution”
Carol Silverman, Professor, Anthropology, “Global Gypsy: Balkan Romani World Music”
Scott Stewart, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Molecular Biology, “New Technology to Control Gene Expression in Zebrafish”
Kelly Sutherland, Assistant Professor, Biology & Clark Honors College, “Distribution and predation potential of jellyfish at biological hotspots off the Oregon coast”
Elizabeth Tippett, Assistant Professor, Law, “The Effect of Attorney Advertising on Medical Decisions”
better luck next year ducks …
While Altman may be successful in terms of season winning percentage and NCAA tourney berths, ultimately his teams play in too undisciplined of manner and don’t understand what team defense is.
Another consequence of this win by transfer method are really sub-par student athletes. While Kent had a myriad of problems, and fortunately for him, this blog did not exist in his time – he at least had the concept of building a team through freshmen and 4 year starters. Those players were decent student athletes. These transfers, on the other hand, know they are here for 1-2 years to do one thing and so academics doesn’t matter at all to them.
The remark about about the UO being “semi-pro” in this regard is pretty accurate and insightful. We are essentially paying (through the DAF) “older” players to play. I say older because the most egregious example is ____ (protecting the “innocent”) who is 24+ and has already played on two JC rosters and JC time doesn’t count against NCAA eligibility.
I think the PAC-12 should look into this practice and try to limit it – in the long run its not the right way for University of handle a sports program but it was the right way for Altman to “win immediately” (to fill Matt Court which ain’t happening) to keep his job which I suspect he doesn’t really want anymore.
Can we bring back Jerry Green :(
ugh … you’re killin’ us here ..