9/30/2010: I’ve posted a copy of the freshly signed contract for UO Athletic Director Rob Mullens here. I asked for it because I was curious about the talk I’d been hearing about the “Director’s Cup”. This is an NCAA competition between athletic directors for the most successful overall athletic program.…
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9/29/2010: Utterly unsurprising news in the RG today. The arena is not going to bring in the revenue Frohnmayer promised when he was selling the bonds to the legislature. And Chip Kelly needs another big raise to keep him on board. So the ticket money will go to Kelly, and…
9/22/2010: USA Today has been doing a lot of good reporting on college athletics, backed up by a database they painfully compile from FOIA requests to public schools for the reports those schools submit to the NCAA. (The NCAA – a non-profit which gets a tax-exemption by arguing they act…
9/16/2010: I don’t know the details but some sort of scandal is brewing with the bball team. George Schroeder of the RG has a piece on it here. Presumably some sports agent gave one of the players a few grand to make it through the school year before he signed…
9/9/2010: Ron Bellamy has a long interview with AD Ron Mullens in the RG. He likes the Jock Box and thinks it didn’t take away from anything else. Really? How much did the academic side get for the land? $1. How much are we going to pay just to replace…
9/2/2010: This is so not my area of expertise, but it looks like Ducks basketball team has completely imploded. Last month they canceled an exhibition tour of Italy, unable to field a complete team. Now the last of Ernie Kent’s recruits may be bailing for Israel. Rumor has it that…
8/27/2010: By Ben Jacklet in Oregon Business: … George Fox fielded a football team from 1894 to 1968 but dropped it when the team could no longer compete. Bringing back football after a 42-year absence is a point of pride to University President Robin Baker, and a smart business decision.…
8/20/2010: UO, the players, and the taxpayers would benefit, but the coaches would lose.
8/18/2010: We expect that new AD Rob Mullens will release some honest accounting of the athletic department budget soon. Maybe. Insidehighered.com reports: Yet again, nearly every Division I athletics program spent more than it made last year. And at a time when many are feeling pressure to achieve self-sufficiency, these…
8/18/2010: At some point college athletics, which is almost entirely driven by the profits earned by the football team, is going to have to deal with this issue. Fortunately the coaches are earning enough money to pay for long term care insurance for their players. Will they?
8/15/2010: George Schroeder of the RG has a story on new AD Rob Mullens, he starts work Monday, 2 weeks early. And the RG Editorial Board gives him a lengthy To Do list, including: 3. Get your staff in order. The athletic department’s current administration is a hodgepodge from the…
8/14/2010: Steve Duin has an interesting column on Masoli in the Oregonian today.
8/7/2010: From Rachel Bachman in the Oregonian. $41,677,868 total. Almost 20% more than a Gehry. I’m no economist, but after tax deductions, this breaks down to about $22 million from Phil Knight, $16 million from US taxpayers, and $4 million from Oregon taxpayers. The gift that keeps on taking. The…
7/28/2010: The OUS Governance and policy committee takes up several issues at its meeting tomorrow, including more discussion on competing restructuring proposals (they call theirs “the compact”), and also “IMD Changes Stemming from Athletics Issues”. The link includes minutes from last month, with a long discussion on the proposals, quite…
7/22/2010: Update, NY Times story here. According to the Judge. Rachel Bachman has more here. UO’s team is a remnant of some bizarre Kilkenny scheme to kick those sweaty wrestlers off campus and replace them with baseball, then trick the NCAA into thinking we were achieving Title IX compliance. Their…