Except of course for the players. That would be an NCAA violation. 31 UO employees get stipends for cars, they are all in the athletic department. The RH column is the annual amount in dollars. Name Title courtesy car stipend Abrams, Harold J Assoc AD – Dir of Dvpmt 4800…
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8/2/2011: Beth Velliquette in the Durham Herald-Sun reports someone broke into the UNC Honor Court and stole their files on a football player plagiarism scandal. Apparently his university employed tutor didn’t actually write his paper for him – she got lazy and just copied it off the internet. Stupid. So…
7/19/2011: The usual stuff. But with sports: The coach said Salinas told him he would direct players from his summer league squad to the coach’s university if the coach would invest $100,000 with him. … ” A good guy — there’s no doubt about that – and he helped a…
7/14/2011: Alan Pittman of the Eugene Weekly analyzes the NCAA report we extracted from the athletic department last week: THIRD OF UO IS SPORTSJust how big is sports at the UO? A third of the value of all the buildings at the UO are sports related and a fifth of…
7/9/2011: Not the legal costs of the NCAA investigations – Randy Geller is still refusing to disclose that info to the faculty. But they will pay for rerouting the utilities for the new Football museum and complex. From Greg Bolt in the RG: The $227 million Knight Arena has put…
6/28/2011: UO’s Athletic Director Rob Mullens claims the Ducks are self supporting and don’t take any money from the state or the academic general fund. USA Today got the spending data from most Division I schools via public records requests. They report the Ducks took $2.6 million last year, up…
6/20/2011: In the Oregonian, on the Willie Lyles $25,000 recruiting scandal and UO’s potential violation of the NCAA rule that only coaches are allowed to make money off of players. Includes links to records, released today. I like how the AD justified their $25,000 payment (a dollar under the amount…
6/16/2011: at UO today! Luxury Suites Service Manager, Athletics RESPONSIBILITIES:The Luxury Suite Services Manager reports directly to the Director of Food and Hospitality Services and is responsible for managing the food and beverage service provided to luxury suite owners attending sporting or entertainment events. The Luxury Suite Services Manager works…
6/14/2011: 118 MPH in a Nissan Stanza? This athlete’s work for the Ducks would have earned him $500,000 or so last year, except that under NCAA rules smiling Chip Kelly and the other UO coaches got to keep it all. And the NCAA thinks the problem is that a UO…
6/10/2011: Long story by David Moltz in Insidehighered on the various proposals under consideration.
6/4/2011: From Lauren Fox in the RG. UO is #4 for alcohol violations, #3 for drugs. (2009 data). A UO student explains the drinking: “It’s really not that surprising,” said student Sean Roney, a junior. “UO is a great party school; we have good sports teams, and drinking is a…
From a Lewis and Clark Law Prof’s Blog: A Modest Proposal for Dealing with Corruption in College Sports While the NCAA prepares its nuclear bomb for use against Ohio State in the wake of that school’s football scandal, I thought I’d propose a way to address the corrupting influence of…
6/2/2011: “Know the O” is the athletic department’s latest effort to pretend that they have some relationship to UO’s academic side. They are going to find a sponsor for 30 second spots on televised Ducks games, to highlight faculty research. Right in between the Bud Light commercials. 8 seconds for…
print sports stories like this? From the OSU student paper, on the Tresell scandals market transactions between willing buyers and sellers: “The tattoo thing is whatever. It’s not that big of a deal, but it’s one of the dumb rules that the NCAA has,” Jenkins told The Lantern on Wednesday.…
because he failed to report that his players were earning a few bucks selling memorabilia down at the tattoo parlor. Coach Tressel will get a fat severance deal, while the Ohio State “student-athletes” will be lucky to find minimum wage jobs. The NCAA rule is that only white people can…