Personally, I don’t know what’s wrong with just using Hayward Field, it was good enough for Otter:
But enough joking, here’s the even more absurd truth. 9/19/2012: The UO Intercollegiate Athletics Committee met today for its annual retreat, agenda below. Part of the IAC’s charge from the Senate says:
As part of its function and in order to carry out its governance function, the IAC shall be consulted by:
1. The athletics department on: …
3. any decisions that potentially affect the campus environment, including construction, removal, or remodeling of facilities, changes in the timing of facilities use, or changes in permitted uses of facilities;
We sat through a 5 hour meeting with AD Rob Mullens. Rob did not once mention a golf course. Neither did spokesperson Craig Pintens. And while they were busy keeping the IAC in the dark, Diane Dietz broke this story in the RG:
… A group of alumni led by Mick Humphreys, who was a UO golf standout in the early 1960s, earlier this month won the Lane County planning director’s approval for a proposed golf course on 796 acres of farmland and forests about two miles west of Creswell. Establishing the course would cost an estimated $25 million, including construction costs and the cost of creating an endowment to defray the cost of operations, said Mike Evans, a Springfield land use consultant. The money would be provided entirely by donors, he said. … The University of Oregon Athletic Department is in discussions with the prospective golf course donors, spokesman Craig Pintens said.
Tax deductible contributions, presumably.
IAC Retreat Agenda
- 10am – Introductions
- introduction and overview of AD administration and structure
- introduction and overview of IAC administration and structure
- 10:15am – initial discussion points:
- overview of charge
- charges, responsibilities, membership, reporting
- IAC structure and internal communicative protocol
- overview of our general mode of inquiry this year (where we are/where we are going)
- ground rules
- internal communication
- confidentiality, public meetings law (Jim O’Fallon)
- notes, recording
- 2012-13 agenda overview and topics of discussion topics
- monthly meetings
- 10th year review
- Task Force Items overview and delegation
- further topics: conversations with coaches, messaging efforts, fundraising, NCAA certification report
- 11:15am – Charge: Represent the academic standards of the university as embodied in the University of Oregon Mission Statement in all decisions;
- mission statement overview
- 12:00 – catered lunch
- 12:30pm – Charge: Promote greater understanding, for the university community, of intercollegiate athletics and the relationship between academics and athletics.
- 12:30pm – Dominican Republic Video and report (Katie Harbert)
- 12:40pm – Life of a student athlete (James Harris)
- 12:55pm – Tim Duy on the economic impact of Athletics on the wider community
- NCAA Eligibility (Gary Gray)
- Website updates (Dev Sinha)
- 1:10pm – Charge: Advise the administration, the senate, and the athletics director on any athletics department policy or program, including the athletics department budget;
- what is our communicative protocol with these three parties? how can we be clear and effective?
- overview of departmental policy and programs including Title IX concerns (Mullens)
- NCAA Academic Rules, non-academic Rules and Legislation (O’Fallon)
- overview of departmental budget, a discussion on the involvement of the IAC in capital projects and hiring, financial situation for this year and projections for the next 10 years (Eric Roedl)
- 2pm – Charge: Promote and safeguard opportunities for student athletes to excel in academics and protect and ensure the academic integrity of student athletes; and
- overview of the current body of student-athletes – distribution of majors, graduation rate etc: Steve Stolp
- report on Student Experience Waddell/Harbaugh
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