From the Chronicle, 4/19/2013: Nearly two-thirds of the 56 most powerful Division I public universities now offer multiyear awards, according to a Chronicle review of public records. Yet few of those institutions do so for more than a handful of athletes. Among the holdouts are some of the wealthiest programs,…
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3/9/2013: You can’t make this shit up. Full announcement here. No details in the docket, of course.
Posted here. Weird, the word “win” does not appear. And still no word from Randy Geller or OUS Counsel Ryan Hagemann on docking Chip Kelly’s pay for lawyers and other NCAA costs. Are they really going to fumble this, and let Kelly walk away with another $500,000 or so in UO…
Executive Summary: Bean still confused by numbers. Alex-Assensoh makes friends. Tublitz’s motion on a performance review of Bean put off until Feb meeting, giving Bean a little more time to find a new job, maybe Rose-Hulman will bite. Motion requiring Gottfredson to tell Holmes and Eveland to stop stalling and…
Last year was the best ever for Duck football. Perfect regular season, second in the BCS. So good that AD Rob Mullens and Interim President Bob Berdahl argued that it was time to expand Autzen, and that if we did the athletic department might finally be able to follow through…
Former UO student Allie Grasgreen has a story in Insidehighered.com about the potential implications for Title IX: “Nevertheless, our results do suggest that it may be a mistake to base Title IX implementation on the assumption that males and females have, or soon will have, generally equal sports interest.” The…
That would be Graham Spanier, former Penn State President, for perjury and obstruction of justice. Spanier had testified in the legislature in 2007 against transparency and public records access for Penn State – after he knew about Sandusky. What are the chances this will encourage UO President Gottfredson to start forcing…
Update: Idaho athletic director Rob Spear suspends quarterback for tweeting that Idaho athletic director Rob Spear is “stupid”. And petty and insecure as well. Chip Kelly got a lot of buzz for saying, in response to WSU coach Mike Leach’s twitter ban, “If you can’t trust a player with twitter,…
9/21/2012 update: President Gottfredson and Provost Mullens’s double secret faculty salary improvement plan will let faculty pick up summer pay caddying for the boosters and JH administrators. Tips go into a startup money pool for new science hires. Personally, I don’t know what’s wrong with just using Hayward Field, it was…
Some reference documents on the UO Intercollegiate Athletics Committee (IAC) and UO athletics, updated periodically. Random marijuana testing policy: Berdahl, Mullens try to sneak random drug testing of “student-athletes”through during summer, Senate and IAC leaders oppose, General Counsel Randy Geller calls out Senate and IAC head and members: … Your allegations…
Craig Pintens and UO’s other well paid hypesters are starting to sound a little shrill. Bob Welch of the RG started it off last week with this nicely written column: The excess. “In a word, that’s how I’d sum it up,” says Darrel Linker, 68, of Springfield, who says the UO is…
Brad Wolverton and Andrea Fuller have an excellent piece in the Chronicle on “Who’s in charge of sports” discussing how little explicit control university president’s contracts give them over athletics. Gottfredson’s contract, here, does not mention athletics. The story also notes this: The contract of Lou Anna K. Simon, president…
Just kidding, that’s only at Penn State: UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State announced today that it reached agreement with the NCAA and the Big Ten Conference on the terms of the Athletics Integrity Agreement required under the Consent Decree. The Athletics Integrity Agreement (AIA) provides for the establishment of…
I’ve posted some updates to the DUCK FAQ. One tidbit: Bob Berdahl signed this new contract for AD Rob Mullens, 2 weeks before departing: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/971644/uomatters/IAC/2012%20Mullens%20contract%20and%20update.pdf The amendment (last page) extends Rob’s contract til 2017. It requires UO to pay him the $450,000 base salary until 2017 if he is fired without…
They got bonuses too. A correspondent points out I missed this report from Rob Moseley in the RG, July 20: The UO football team’s nine assistant coaches each received a $40,000 raise as of July 1, bringing their guaranteed salaries for 2012 to a combined $2,759,500. … Under the amended…