3/7/2011: I’m guessing Liz Denecke and UO’s $250,000 a year public records office – paid for by the academic side – is going to be busy.
Posts tagged as “Athletics”
3/4/2011: I’m as shocked as you to see those words appear together. But it seems Chip Kelly and Rob Mullens Mike Bellotti or Lorraine Davis paid $25,000 in state money to some guy for his help in getting running back Lache Seastrunk to sign with UO. The NCAA is or…
2/24/2011: and more transparency from the UO Foundation, here: Donations to the University’s athletic department in the form of outright gifts has increased by more than 200 percent in the last 10 years, while outright gifts to academics have remained stagnant, according to a recent Emerald article (“Athletic hype draws…
2/16/2011: College athletics is corrupt to the core. The PlayoffPAC website has story after story: “Tostitos Fiesta Bowl CEO John Junker, a fixture with the game for three decades and one of college football’s most prominent bowl executives, was placed on administrative leave Monday as officials continue to investigate allegations…
2/14/2011: Stefan Verbano of the ODE quotes former UO Business School Dean and current marketing Prof Dennis Howard – strange, he doesn’t look like a revolutionary threat to the established order – on the link between athletic contributions and the real University of Oregon: “It’s called a donation or a…
2/7/2011: The UO Foundation has refused to say much about their operations, to the point of hiring an attorney last year to get them an exclusion from the public records law. Nice try – I’m no economist, but I know a few things about finding data. No wonder they’ve been…
“The board recognizes the educational value of many of these activities as part of the training of youth, but it proposes to see that the plan of payment for these activities is just.” … “The “over-emphasis” on athletics is intensified mainly by the neglect of other needs.” April 17,…
1/30/2011: In a NY Times story on the UConn donor who pulled his sports donations when the AD didn’t ask him who to hire as coach. Professor Earl from English Lit, on Oregon. “The world thinks of us as a sports franchise,” he added. “They don’t care what we do…
1/25/2011: Dennis Howard is a B-school prof in the UO sports-marketing department. His work is on the tradeoff between athletic donations and donations to the academic side. In a 2004 paper using data from UO donors, he concludes: At least contextually, there is evidence that a winning program may significantly…
searching through the UO accounts for expenses for our “self-supporting” athletic department that are actually paid by the academic side. The $2 million in general funds for the Jock Box tutoring is just one example. Here’s another – our NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative: I’d never even heard of this position…
1/4/2011: Bill Graves of the Oregonian has a piece on the football team’s success and what it will mean for academics. President Lariviere goes gaga: The UO not only stands to gain market share in the sports business, but also mind share in public attention, he says. On a recent…
1/3/2010: Wondering who is behind those new student apartments next to the arena? Looks like one of the investors is Russell Kilkenny, former UO Athletic Director Pat Kilkenny‘s brother. The financing is through a San Diego bank that supports Pat’s Lucky Duck Foundation, I wonder if he is also involved.…
12/28/2010: For the 09-10 fiscal year the UO Foundation brought in $31.7 million in outright gifts (as opposed to deferred gifts or gifts for buildings.) $18.1 million of that was for athletics. More on this later, still crunching the data.
12/22/2010: USA Today has a long report on the recent explosion in salaries for assistant football coaches, with a special focus on Oregon. At UO there are 9 assistants, making an average of over $400,000 each, with bonuses. Add in Kelly’s $3.5 million, Altman’s $1.5, Mullens’s $600,000, and the $2.3…
12/20/2010: When President Lariviere hired Jamie Moffitt as “Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director for Finance and Administration” and then Rob Mullens as AD, I expected that they would start sending some of the athletic department’s money back to the academic side. At Kentucky, Mullens had given back about $1 million…