Matthew Kish of the Portland Business Journal has posted the contracts between big-time college sports departments and their apparel suppliers. The Ducks get $600K cash (all of which seems to go to the coaches), $2.2M for apparel and team equipment (works out to $5000 per player), and a $185K “discretionary clothing allowance”.
Kish made a public records request to UO for the NCAA required “outside income” reports showing who got what part of that $18K, but UO redacted the names and amounts. Full file and contracts here. Looks like our administrators got their cut which is presumably why UO didn’t want to release their names. We wouldn’t want any specious claims about conflicts of interest and contract negotiations flying around, as in “You knock $400K off the cash payment for the university, and we’ll give you and your friends some free shoes:”
In other news, everybody gets a car! At least in the athletic department. Also our Prius driving interim provost. Sorry Scott, I couldn’t resist. Nice ride.
While UCLA got $4.5 million from Adidas, plus $4 million for equipment?