Seems like as good a time as any to repost this, from 2016. And yes, Lorraine Davis is still on the payroll. And how much did UO pay Lorraine Davis for her Alamo Bowl duties? Last year’s bowl overload was pretty lucrative: The NCAA’s unwritten rule is that “no black man shall…
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I’m sure it was a fun junket for our Johnson Hall administrators, who spared no expense in providing the documentation the IRS will want when they claim it was for a “business purpose”: But it didn’t matter much to Google Trends:
Here’s what the Duck student-athletes will get for playing in the Redbox Bowl on Dec 31, courtesy of the Sports Business Journal: Yeah I didn’t know what a Roku is either, but it’s $34 at Walmart. On the other hand their coach Mario Cristobal gets to top off his $2.5M…
2/23/2018:
Senate President Sinclair broke the first rule of Vegas when he mentioned the Ice Bar escapade at a recent Senate meeting – on video. Now the press is on the trail:
Thanks Chris, next year was my turn, and you’ve gone and ruined it. How is the Senate going to find a new president-elect with this kind of scandal out there?
Fortunately our Public Records Office are experts at delaying and frustrating public records requests. I wonder what their excuse is for denying this one? Some of the long history of Duck junkets and public records is below:
3/31/2015: Hubin’s PR office finally gives Tublitz the BCS championship junket lists
12/3/2017: That’s according to Andrew Nemec in the Oregonian here, who thinks this will be a disaster for recruiting. The Las Vegas Bowl is run by ESPN, so there’s no public information on how much the organizers rake in. With any luck UO’s take, after the expenses for team travel and the junkets for top JH and Senate administrators and families, will be enough to cover the $500K we paid Southern Utah for the body-bag game that gave Willie Taggart a winning season and a $100K bonus. Who goes and what it costs will be available under Oregon public records law however, since “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” is not yet listed as a mandatory exemption under ORS 192.
2016: Losing season, no bowl game.
12/28/2015: UO cuts Bowl of Ducks list to the bone
Two and a half weeks after asking, UO’s Public Records office responds to a request for the Alamo Bowl junket list:
No University employees will be receiving paid “junkets” to the Valero Alamo Bowl on January 2nd. However, the following University employees will be travelling to the Alamo Bowl as a part of the official delegation, and will be expected to perform work on behalf of the University.
Mike Andreasen
Roger Thompson
Tim Gleason
Rob Mullens
Randy Sullivan
The office considers this to be fully responsive to your request, and will now close your matter. Thank you for contacting the office with your request.
For just $5M more we could have hired a Harbaugh. Cousin Jim is currently 6-0, and #5 in the national rankings. But instead our Board of Trustees bought local:
A month ago UO’s directory listed longtime UO administrator Lorraine Davis’s only current UO affiliation as Professor Emeritus [sic] – an unpaid honorific typically bestowed upon faculty who retire after long and distinguished careers as teachers and researchers: I was a little surprised to see this, since Davis’s recent work has been more focused on Duck…
3/5/2015: No, of course I’m not talking about the $30K that UO administrators get each year as part of the lousy apparel contract they signed with Nike. That seems like an interesting potential conflict of interest, but I’m sure UO’s Office of Internal Audit has carefully vetted it, just as they must have…
Columnist Sally Jenkins, here: … For years, athletic directors have styled themselves as CEO-types and moaned about the difficulties of managing costs. But a Washington Post project published earlier this week shows that these so-called executives are about as fiscally responsible as Gabor sisters serving sevruga in chinchilla capes. The truth…
11/7/2015:
Apparently this win means the Ducks are going to some bowl game, and Helfrich gets a $50K bonus for that. Then we have to pay for all the admins and their families to go along for the junket. Here’s Tim Gleason, then Journalism Dean, now Faculty Athletics Representative, at the 2013 Fiesta Bowl student recruiting event:
VP for Enrollment Roger Thompson videotapes one or two humiliating events like this at every bowl game, so that the administrators can show the IRS there was a business purpose for their family’s holiday junket:
4/12/2015: Coach Helfrich’s raise totals more than all 1500 UO staff combined
UO has about 1500 staff workers, making an average wage of about $35,000 a year. Their SEIU local 503 is currently bargaining with OUS for a new contract. The OUS offer is an 0.5% COLA, or $175 each per year.
Meanwhile, the UO administration just found the money to give football coach Mark Helfrich a slightly larger raise:
Here’s the message from the SEIU local:
Higher Ed Management Proposals Not Unified Across State, Return to the “Big Three,” Attack Health Care, Steps, and More
Here: This could save UO a lot of money. The athletic department’s report to the NCAA, here, says they lost $832K on last year’s bowl games, after you count the cost of the administrator’s junkets and the coach’s bonuses. That’s right, our coaches’ bowl game bonuses are so large that UO loses money…
5/5/2015 update: Jon Solomon of CBS Sports reports that, after accounting for the administrative junkets and $2.2M bonuses for AD Rob Mullens and the coaches, UO lost $1.5m on the Pac12 and BCS championship games: But surely all that publicity will help bring in new students? Actually, the latest research…
I can’t imagine why they are stalling. With luck, Prof Tublitz will get these names in time for me to post them before the bargaining session with Jamie Moffitt starts: On Mar 13, 2015, at 10:22 PM, tublitz <[email protected]> wrote: Dear Ms Joubran: I submitted the following request over a month…
1/1/2015 junket update: It’s good to see he’s found some honest work as a limo driver. Meanwhile our Chief Strategic Communicator’s team is churning out the traditional “Around the 0” stories on the obligatory charity and student recruiting events: 12/27/2014: Johnson Hall admins take off for semi-final bowl game junkets Last…
Presumably our colleagues in the Johnson Hall administration will still get their free junkets, courtesy of UO’s “general fund”. But it sounds like the UO undergrads whose tuition pays for those Pasadena trips are getting a little restless. Twitter feed here: