4/30/2020 update: A few hours after this post, the Duck’s strategic communicators responded:
In light of the ongoing challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, all University of Oregon head coaches have voluntarily agreed to take a 10 percent salary reduction for the 2020-21 academic year … Additionally, all UO head coaches have also agreed to forego all academic, Pac-12 and postseason performance incentives for the 2020-21 academic year.
“We appreciate the leadership role taken on by our head coaches as we deal with this unprecedented crisis,” said Mullens. “This speaks to the selfless nature of our Oregon coaching staff and their desire to help us navigate the current challenges and those on the horizon.
“Our goal is to accelerate from this situation well-positioned to continue to achieve our goals of broad-based excellence and of providing an exceptional student-athlete experience, and we are thankful to our head coaches for their collective and consistent actions in supporting our mission.”
It’s a strange plan. For example, Assistant Football Coach Moorehead keeps all his $900K plus bonuses, while $160K Head VB/Beach VB Coach Ullmer gives up $16K and his bonuses.
Where will these savings go? Presumably not to rehire staff or reduce the subsidies from the academic budget. Instead they will reduce the amount that Mullens takes from the sinking fund that Phil Knight set up for the Knight Arena bonds and other athletic expenses, when he was lobbying the legislature to issue $230M in debt financing. Last I looked that fund was down to $60M or so.
So, assuming Knight keeps filling it up, these pay and bonus cuts should be thought of as a gift to Uncle Phil from his grateful head coaches. For that matter the money Mullens saved by laying off the staff is also ultimately a benefit to Knight, who is the Duck’s “residual claimant”, to use the Coasian term.
4/29/2020: Rob Mullens lays off janitors, groundskeepers to pay greedy Duck coaches


Earlier this year Duck AD Rob Mullens gave Coach Dana Altman a $25K bonus, to top off his multi-million contract. This month he laid off 75 classified staff, saving maybe $70K each in pay and benefit costs.
Where’s the rest of the money going? Here are the Duck’s big earners – note that these numbers leave out millions in bonuses, car stipends, country club memberships, and other perqs:
LAST_NAME |
FIRST_NAME |
ACADEMIC_TITLE |
PAY_DEPARTMENT |
BASE_SALARY |
APPT_PERCENT |
Altman |
Dana D |
Head Men’s Basketball Coach |
Athletics |
$2,900,000 |
100% |
Cristobal |
Mario |
Head Football Coach |
Athletics |
$2,700,000 |
100% |
Moorhead |
Joseph M |
Assistant Football Coach |
Athletics |
$900,000 |
100% |
Avalos |
Andrew |
Assistant Football Coach |
Athletics |
$815,000 |
100% |
Mullens |
Robert A |
Dir Intercollegiate Athletics |
Athletics |
$798,133 |
100% |
Graves |
Kelly L |
Head Women’s Basketball Coach |
Athletics |
$700,000 |
100% |
Salavea |
Joseph |
Assistant Football Coach |
Athletics |
$650,000 |
100% |
Heyward |
Keith |
Assistant Football Coach |
Athletics |
$600,000 |
100% |
Stubblefield |
Anthony G |
Assist Men’s Basketball Coach |
Athletics |
$500,000 |
100% |
Williams |
Donte A |
Assistant Football Coach |
Athletics |
$450,000 |
100% |
Mastro |
James E |
Assistant Football Coach |
Athletics |
$375,000 |
100% |
Johnson |
Robert A |
Head Coach M&W Track Field |
Athletics |
$350,000 |
100% |
Mirabal |
Alejandro J |
Assistant Football Coach |
Athletics |
$350,000 |
100% |
Williams |
Robert |
Assistant Football Coach |
Athletics |
$350,000 |
100% |
Wilson |
William K |
Assistant Football Coach |
Athletics |
$350,000 |
100% |
Bouknight |
Jovon M |
Assistant Football Coach |
Athletics |
$335,000 |
100% |
Lombardi |
Melissa K |
Head Softball Coach |
Athletics |
$335,000 |
100% |
Wasikowski |
Mark P |
Head Baseball Coach |
Athletics |
$325,000 |
100% |
Feld |
Aaron W |
Strength & Conditioning Coord |
Athletics |
$310,000 |
100% |
McKenna |
Kevin R |
Assist Men’s Basketball Coach |
Athletics |
$300,000 |
100% |
Mennenga |
Michael M |
Asst Men’s Basketball Coach |
Athletics |
$300,000 |
100% |
Roedl |
Eric L |
Deputy Athletic Director |
Athletics |
$280,836 |
100% |
Davis |
Lorraine G |
Special Assistant to AD |
Athletics |
$239,350 |
10% |
Martin |
Casey M |
Head Men’s Golf Coach |
Athletics |
$235,000 |
100% |
Campbell |
Mark J |
Assoc Head Women’s BB Coach |
Athletics |
$216,000 |
100% |
Peterson |
Lisa L |
Deputy Athletic Director/SWA |
Athletics |
$208,719 |
100% |
Davidson |
Craig J |
Director of Athletic Medicine |
Athletics |
$200,004 |
100% |
Cohn |
Henry J |
Sr Assoc AD for Development |
Athletics |
$200,000 |
100% |
Duncan |
Michael P |
Sr Assc AD Operations & Events |
Athletics |
$184,870 |
100% |
Radcliffe |
James C |
Head Strength Coach |
Athletics |
$184,800 |
100% |
Berry |
Jodie R |
Asst Women’s Basketball Coach |
Athletics |
$179,152 |
100% |
Stanton |
James T |
Senior Assoc Athletic Dir Communications |
Athletics |
$172,001 |
100% |
Hawkins |
Jeffrey N |
Ar Assc AD/HDC Admin & Ops |
Athletics |
$164,671 |
100% |
Ulmer |
Matthew D |
Head VB/Beach VB Coach |
Athletics |
$160,000 |
100% |
Yamanaka |
Herbert S |
Associate AD |
Athletics |
$151,213 |
100% |
Here are the jobs of the people Mullens laid off, with their date of hire:
Trades/Maintenance Worker 2 11/24/14
Refrigeration Mechanic 3/10/14
Food Service Worker 2 10/31/16
Laborer 2 8/5/91
Office Specialist 2 1/28/08
Office Specialist 2 7/9/18
Custodian 3/18/08
Accounting Technician 10/2/09
Custodian 10/15/15
Administrative Program Assist 1/20/04
Trades/Maintenance Worker 2 8/20/90
Electrical/Control System Tech 9/18/17
Laborer 2 8/14/17
Athletic Equipment Coordinator 7/3/17
Laborer 1 10/14/88
Grounds Maintenance Worker 2 3/16/98
Maintenance Electrician 8/20/07
Trades/Maintenance Worker 2 6/26/17
Food Service Worker 2 7/15/13
Cook 1 1/9/20
Info Technology Consultant 7/3/17
Electrical/Control System Tech 11/15/10
Food Service Worker 3 6/11/05
Laborer 2 1/12/11
Electrical/Control System Tech 11/18/06
Cook 2 6/9/15
Accountant 1 6/1/15
Videographer 1 2/19/19
Grounds Maintenance Worker 2 10/31/06
Food Service Worker 1 8/29/16
Laborer 2 11/17/09
Custodial Services Coordinator 1/8/13
Administrative Program Assist 1/7/19
Trades/Maintenance Worker 2 6/24/19
Program Technician 1 7/23/18
Laborer 2 5/10/17
Custodian 7/23/15
Office Specialist 2 12/17/07
Info Technology Consultant 1/22/14
Custodian 11/1/18
Administrative Program Assist 9/13/94
Cook 2 2/27/20
Laborer 2 1/14/11
Hvac Control Technician 2/18/20
Office Specialist 2 6/16/16
Custodian 10/15/10
Custodial Services Coordinator 7/9/13
Laborer 1 4/29/15
Office Specialist 2 8/22/94
Athletic Equipment Coordinator 1/2/10
Videographer 1 4/15/19
Trades/Maintenance Worker 2 11/4/19
Equipment Systems Specialist 1/15/97
Custodian 10/6/06
Athletic Equipment Coordinator 10/9/17
Custodian 8/14/13
Custodian 9/24/12
Custodian 6/22/17
Videographer 1 8/26/19
Oper Systems-Network Analyst 9/20/12
Custodian 4/1/13
Food Service Coordinator 9/1/10
Trades/Maintenance Worker 1 12/14/09
Office Specialist 2 6/11/12
Custodian 3/10/16
Grounds Maintenance Worker 2 8/16/10
Office Specialist 1 9/22/08
Office Specialist 2 6/2/15
Custodian 1/20/04
Warehouse Coordinator 8/20/15
Laborer 2 2/10/10
Cook 1 7/1/13
Administrative Program Assist 6/22/15
Trades/Maintenance Worker 2 1/10/11
Custodial Services Coordinator 1/5/04