I”m a big believer in free speech, but I’m not sure the twitter page of $5M Duck coach Mario Cristobal is going to convince many parents to send their kids to study at UO:
I”m a big believer in free speech, but I’m not sure the twitter page of $5M Duck coach Mario Cristobal is going to convince many parents to send their kids to study at UO:
what happens when you have a sport meant to normalize war and a never-ending stream of war pornography on screens everywhere. I’m sure the brutality these warrior-coaches instill and inspire will be on full display on that big ass jumbotron soon enough…
WTF
He has daddy issues?
The athletic dept has created a budget nightmare…maybe that is what he is referencing.
Perhaps we should rename it: Pathletic Department
Some of you folks haven’t been directly involved with football programs. If you had been, you’d not at all be surprised Nuanced introspection isn’t part of corporate athletics. Given that many admits attend due to Duck football success, the tweet is in line with appropriate flagship PR/advertising…
Given how tightly the brand is managed, I doubt this wasn’t sent out without the approval of marketing….
THE University of Oregon? There’s another…?
He’s trying to be cool like the football players from THE Ohio State University who oddly introduce themselves on TV emphasizing “THE” before Ohio State University. I never knew why they did that. But I just looked it up, and the official name actually is “The Ohio State University,” which is I guess why. But our official name is just “University of Oregon,” (no “the”) so Cristobal is just wrong here and it looks foolish. The whole thing looks foolish.
I wish inappropriate capitalization was the worst of the Duck Athletic Dept’s sins.
Many institutions have instituted furloughs to save money; the low hanging fruit are the obvious jobs that are superfluous without students on campus. Furloughs in some places may lead to layoffs – temporary, but still a layoff – if classes don’t convene in physical campus spaces this fall. It’s a brutal reality, but why should a campus pay for, say, dining hall staff when there is nobody on campus eating in dining halls?
Which leads to the obvious question: Why (leaving contract law aside…) pay for programs that are not happening; certainly it makes sense to not play full freight when full freight ain’t coming. So it is curious (and perhaps encouraging?) to see this headline: Boise State furloughs football coaching staff to help ease financial burden caused by coronavirus
It is in the coaching staff’s best interest to join in on a “shared sacrifice” of furloughing all employees when Boise State athletics needs $13 million a year in general fund money to break even and may need another $25 million if football doesn’t happen as planned.
Exactly. Whack at the bottom, do not whack at the top, even, and especially, in programs that are defunct in this situation (athletics for example). The pressure on faculty/classified/OA and associated unions is heavy and public — these employees are expected to, and continue to, make a huge sacrifice (and in terms of classified who have already lost 230 workers and OA who lost 30 or more) — we do NOT see any equivalent pressure on the athletic elite (coaches and administrators and directors) or, in reality, nothing but token bits for UO administrators. While contracts with unions are considered negotiable, and if those unions do not negotiate to the satisfaction of UO Admin, further layoffs and non-renewal of contracts, are in process or are threatened. Yet contracts with athletics and admin are not.