12/6/2010: Stefan Verbano of the ODE digs into the recordings of the OUS meeting on the new UO athletic complex, back in June: At one point in the meeting, however, Lariviere spoke frankly about how the school has been obliged to embrace such projects even if they do not buttress…
Posts tagged as “Athletics”
11/24/2010: One of the sadder aspects of college athletics is the resemblance to slavery. The coaches earn millions, while the players get subsistence. Slave owners were able to do this because they owned the slaves and had a brutal system of enforcers to prevent the slaves from bargaining for more,…
11/22/2010: Ron Bellamy of the RG offers a milquetoast recap of a story reported by Bill Graves and Rachel Bachman in the Oregonian back in June: Phil Knight is building more athletic facilities for UO. As in the past, these tax-deductible gifts will cost taxpayers a bundle. They also require…
11/10/2010: You can’t make this shit up. From Ken Goe of the Oregonian, link courtesy of the Commentator. We should all thank UW Athletic Director Scott Woodward for bringing some attention to the embarrassing imbalance between UO’s athletic extravaganza and our academic mission. This is supposed to be UO President…
11/11/2010: The fast acting folks in public affairs have put this up on UO’s homepage, in reaction to the embarrassment UO has recently suffered. They should be fast: their budget has grown from $2.5 million to $6.8 million in 5 years. It’s a shame we didn’t have that money for…
11/8/2010: When the Athletic Directors at other universities start saying the academic side of UO is not benefiting from our athletic success, maybe it’s time to do something about it. From the UW AD – before they lost the game ;) “What they have done here athletically is nothing short…
10/26/2010 update: A careful, and helpful, reader points out that the SSA email says: For your information, each student-athlete has signed the NCAA Student-Athlete statement, which includes the Buckley Amendment Consent Declaration, which allows Services for Student Athletes the right to this information. Not our first mistake, or our last.…
10/15/2010: Provost Jim Bean’s Oregonian op-ed today is an attempt to refute reporter Rachel Bachman’s story in the Oregonian from last week, here: Oregon athletic department uses state money for academic needs despite claims of self-sufficiency Ducks athletes have received $8.5 million in general fund benefits in nine years while…
10/15/2010: A courageous UO student journalist decides to kill chances of ever getting a job in sports, points out: … long term brain damage is more likely the result of hundreds of sub-concussive collisions. According to a recent ESPN.com article, “Studies have shown a first-string college football player in a…
10/12/2010: From Libby Sander in the Chronicle of Higher Ed: For four straight years, faculty members at Mississippi State University have gone without merit pay raises. This year, for some, a financial boost came from an unlikely source: the athletics department. Last week, 406 faculty members—nearly a third of the…
10/11/2010: From Insidehighered.com, a succinct summary of Rachel Bachman’s Oregonian article: U. of Oregon Disputed on Claim of Athletic Self-Sufficiency The University of Oregon has asserted that it has one of the few big-time athletic programs that are self-sufficient. But an article in The Oregonian revealed that about $8.5 million…
10/8/2010: UO athletics brings in about $70 million. They pay about $14 million to the coaches and the AD. This is not enough for them, so they want the regular students and the taxpayers to write a blank check for the jock box operations – about $2 million this year.…
10/4/2010: I’ve talked to way too many reporters over the years. They would spit in the phone everytime UO’s public records boss Melinda Grier’s name was mentioned. Steve Duin of the Oregonian compared her operation to the KGB. It took a rebellion of sportswriters over the Bellotti payoff to get…
10/3/2010: Greg Bolt has a few articles today on the athletic department budget (Mullens’s report is here), including one on how little data Jamie Moffitt and Rob Mullens are willing to provide the press. Here are some additional spreadsheets, that include somewhat more detailed breakdowns of revenue and expenses than…
10/2/2010: Ron Bellamy of the RG and Rachel Bachman of the Oregonian write on Mullens’s contract. Full version here. There’s an extra $50K in deferred compensation and a list of perks not included in the original stories, based on the term sheet. Whatever. There are also incentives for bowl games,…