7/21/2010: I’m compiling a list of state/academic subsidies to athletics. So far I’ve got the $1.4 million: State lottery money used for athletic scholarships. ?: Legal Services to athletic department (UO and DOJ billed to UO) ? portion of 1039 hours salary for Lorraine Davis to cover costs proctoring quizzes…
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7/20/2010: On the UO Athletics website at goducks.com, you will (still) find this statement from Mike Bellotti: The mission of the Duck Athletic Fund is to raise funds to offset the expenses of student-athlete scholarships and related athletic support at the University of Oregon. … The University of Oregon Athletic…
7/17/2010: In the 2007-2008 FY the UO Foundation reports disbursing $13 million to UO for athletic scholarships. This money presumably comes from Duck Athletic Foundation donations fans must make to be eligible for season tickets. The $13 million figure comes from the public annual report the foundation must file under…
7/15/2010: Makes sense. Between Jamie Moffit and this Mullen guy, Lariviere just might be able to whip UO athletics into shape. Under Mullen’s 2010 budget, Kentucky’s athletic department isn’t just self-supporting, they will give UK’s academic side $1.7 million for academic scholarships. Imagine that! Meanwhile, while the UO athletic department…
7/13/2010: DPS Captain Herb Horner has been in charge of parking at UO for years. Back in April, he was interviewed by the Daily Emerald about the big increases in parking fees and fines that would be needed to pay for the underground parking garage that UO had to build…
7/11/2010: From Rachel Bachman in the Oregonian. This is fucking unbelievable perhaps just a little bit surprising, given why Pres Lariviere fired Melinda Grier: Dana Altman, on the job for nearly 11 weeks as Oregon men’s basketball coach, does not have a formal contract despite a university pledge to quickly…
6/21/2010: Ever since Kilkenny dropped wrestling for cheerleading, it’s been obvious that the courts would have to decide this issue someday. Insidehighered.com links to this story, arguments begin today in US District Court in CT: A federal judge is being asked to decide whether cheerleading can be counted as a…
6/20/2010: The PAC-n expansion is way outside my area of expertise. You’d need a PhD in economics to understand if there’s even a pure-strategy Bayesian Nash equilibrium to this game. Rob Moseley has a good piece in today’s RG. Maybe it’s sour grapes, but the quotes from former UO AD…
6/12/2010: There is an article on the latest shifts in athletic conferences in USA Today here, and another on the PAC-16 specifically here. My takeaway is that college football is getting even more profitable, and that players and academics will continue to get nothing from it – so, uh, who…
6/13/2010: Steve Duin of the Oregonian on the PAC-16: In the Pacific-10’s imminent decision to expand to 16 teams, we have the triumph of gluttony over moderation, crass over class, John Calipari over John Wooden. What’s more, we might have our final proof that the university presidents who have sanctioned…
6/9/2010: I thought Masoli had been kicked off the team after the laptop theft, but I can’t keep them straight anymore. Not sure if possession really should count, but it looks like this will move the Ducks up in the Fulmer Cup rankings. Does Kelly’s contract have a penalty for…
6/5/2010: The OUS press report on increased tuition and approval of the latest sports project from Phil Knight here. Bill Graves on the tuition increases is here. The Oregonian story by Rachel Bachman on the sports construction is here: As the clock ticked on Friday’s meeting of the State Board…
6/4/2010: Margie Paris hasn’t posted an ad for the General Counsel job yet – 6 weeks after Melinda was fired. And Lariviere is still thinking about who should be on the search committee for the Martinez replacement. But Robin Holmes is making progress on the AD hire: Campus Colleagues: What’s…
6/3/2010: The OUS Board typically has one faculty member. The new appointment is Lynda Ciuffetti, Botany and Plant Pathology at OSU. Her research “…is in the area of host-pathogen interactions, specifically, interactions involving fungal pathogens.” That should give her a lot of extra insight into the OUS Chancellor and Board’s…
5/30/2010: Alan Scher Zagier of the AP writes on what happens to NCAA division I scholarship players if the coach decides he/she wants them off the team. They lose all their funding, and if they want to finish their degree and are out of state, they pay out of state…