6/14/2013: President Gottfredson has to decide who will replace retired UO law professor Jim O’Fallon very soon. O’Fallon has been the FAR for 23 years – since back when he actually was faculty – without ever going through a performance review. This is a clear violation of OUS rules, and…
Posts tagged as “athletics subsidy”
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,…
5/29/2013: That would be at NMSU.
5/20/2013: They are making UO parking operations pay nearly $1M a year towards the bonds for the underground Matt Court Arena parking garage – meaning the cost gets tacked on to the fees every UO parking pass holder must pay. And then they earn $370K a year, presumably from game…
5/19/2013: You can’t make this shit up. Rachel Bachman has the story in the WSJ on PAC-12 commissioner Larry Scott’s earnings: Scott took home a $1,376,000 bonus in addition to a base salary of $1,575,000 and other compensation of $71,462. … Scott said that owning its networks helps the Pac-12 “drive…
Motion to have the UO athletic department pay the costs of athlete only tutoring and the Knight Arena land, passed 19 to 4 with 4 abstentions on 5/8/2013. President Gottfredson’s report to Senate due 7/8/2013. Payments by the Athletics Department for Academic Purposes Number: US12/13-20 Date of Notice: Wed, 02/13/2013 Legislation,…
Knight Library Room 101, 3:00‐5:00 pm Prologue: Be there – two key motions: Adoption of a rational Legal Representation Policy, introduced by Senate VP Margie Paris. (See here for Randy Geller’s attempt). Legislation to require the administration to recoup the annual $1.8M cost of athlete-only tutoring and the $500K cost…
5/6/2013: Sharon Rudnick and VPFA Jamie Moffitt have proposed $12M annually for faculty raises. The faculty union is asking for $25M. Rudnick and her team have made an impassioned plea for help finding $13M in recurring funds to make up the difference, stating that if UO can’t find the money…
From Nigel Jaquiss in Willamette Week, On HB 3524, introduced in the Oregon House today by Democrat Brent Barton: Provides that a coach at public university who intentionally or recklessly commits or causes to be committed major violation of rules of National Collegiate Athletic Association is liable for university’s actual…
4/7/2013, here: UO men’s and women’s teams, combined, are 11th in the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup competition, which uses a slightly different scoring system. The highest the Ducks have ever finished in the Directors’ Cup competition is 14th in 2009-10; with a strong spring, they could be a top-five program. …
4/1/2013: From Sports Illustrated: The case, filed by former UCLA basketball star O’Bannon in 2009 and eventually expanded to include high-profile co-plaintiffs like Oscar Robertson and Bill Russell, initially focused solely on the use of former athletes’ likeness in products such as EA Sports’ NCAA video games, for which the…
3/8/13: Thanks to the ever curious Nathan Tublitz, here’s the list of UO employees who got free Rose Bowl tickets in 2012. 635 total tickets. (It took 3 months for Dave Hubin’s public records office to release the records.) Street price was about $1700 a pop for last year, according…
Rob Moseley has the story in the RG. Part of the cash comes from the $467K a year the academic side pays the jocks for Mac Court. Why is Michael Gottfredson letting that corrupt Frohnmayer/Kilkenny deal continue?
Student government has cut $25K from their $150K subsidy of the marching band budget, contingent on Director Dr. Eric Wiltshire getting the money from other sources, presumably the AD. It will be interesting to read about his good faith efforts to do that. Ian Campbell of the ODE has the…
Secret slide update on Senate IAC expels student-journalists from meeting
6/6/2013 update: AAD for finance Eric Roedl’s secret athletic slides, with redactions, here. Oregon Commentator Nick Ekblad got them via a public records request, after the IAC voted to kick him out of their meeting on budgets and athletic subsidies. More below. Why in the world would the blacked out…