6/3/2013; Word down at UO’s heavily mortgaged PK Park is that they can barely sell half the seats for an NCAA final 8 match. Total ticket revenue this year is about $385K, operating costs are $5.8M plus the coaches salaries. Rob Mullens can’t meet his promises to the academic side, but he gave Coach Horton $450,000 plus these rather easy bonuses:
And the balloon loan former UO Foundation trustee Pat Kilkenny got from from the UO Foundation to pay for construction of the park he named after himself is due in a few years. Want more info? Pay UO $484.42 to see the public records.
1/15/2012: Has Pat Kilkenny paid off his previous pledges, or is the UO Foundation still on the hook for the $10 million PK Park costs?
(Amounts in $ thousands). The Ducks have to pay the Foundation 6.25% to borrow money for baseball? Weird. You’d think a solid pledge would be good enough colateral to get a substantially better rate. But UO won’t explain what’s going on, unless we pay them $484.42:
Now former athletics finance director and new UO CFO Jamie Moffitt is letting out a bid for still more work on PK Park. While Rob Mullens argues that the athletic department does not have any money to contribute towards student scholarships. PK Park – another athletic department gift that keeps on taking from the academic side.
Athletic department just makes ya want to hurl with the sneaky stuff going on there. Has anyone thought to lobby the legislature for an accounting of the Athletic Department finances…requested an audit? How about an audit of the Foundation..is it legal for them to be borrowing money???
Oregon was one of the top 64 teams, not top 8.
Does the IAC have anything to say about this? Oh, wait… the IAC is full of pussies.
Time to brush up on your stats, anon. Yes indeed Oregon was top 8. UO became the last of 8 sites named for regional play which ended tonight with an 11-4 loss to Rice and the end of the season.
You’d think that hosting regional, (and potentially super regional) play would guarantee game sell-outs since this is, *ahem*, such a baseball centric university … but no.
Calm down boys, Kilkenny will pack em in, for the NCAA cheerleading championships.
You can’t buy wins as they come from great unselfish coaching and recruiting players that know how to win with class. Not good for recruiting to lose your own regional when 7 others didn’t
Just look North 50 miles and you have an example of what winner looks like.
You do realize this post isn’t about baseball, right?
Fishwrapper sez: You do realize that baseball is about the only place where you can find examples for all parts of life; metaphors and wisdom to guide you; and an overdose of schadenfreude when would-be practitioners of the game don’t even pay attention and proper respect to the game, right?
“Look at misfortune the same way you look at success. Don’t panic.” – Walter Alston