10/5/2011: Want to know what the NCAA’s cleaner Michael Glazier is doing in exchange for the $150,000 UO is paying him? Good luck – here’s what the August invoice looks like, after the UO Public Records office is done with it: The UO administration has no problem making the academic…
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10/3/2011: The NCAA infractions committee comes down hard on Cincinnati: The University of Cincinnati committed a major violation in its women’s basketball program and secondary violations in its women’s basketball and football programs, according to findings by the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions. … and members of the football…
10/1/2011: The contract is here. I’ve had a few questions about this clause: So, Rob Mullens could indeed fine Kelly for NCAA violations, etc. A day’s pay would be about $20,000, but there’s no upper limit and Kelly would not seem to have much recourse. But I’m guessing this is…
9/29/2011: Why is the academic side of UO paying “The Cleaner” to defend Chip Kelly in an NCAA investigation? Shouldn’t the athletic department pay for this? From Ken Goe in the Oregonian: The University of Oregon’s general counsel’s office and athletic department are sharing the cost for the specialty law…
9/22/2011: We’ve written before about how UO General Counsel Randy Geller has hired longtime NCAA insider Michael Glazier for $150,000 to clean up the Willie Lyles mess – or at least sweep it under the rug, save Kelly’s job, and avoid paying Lyles the last $25,000 he was apparently promised.…
9/17/2011: In the Oregonian: Mullens pledged full cooperation with the NCAA and said the University has retained outside counsel (Bond, Schoeneck and King) to conduct an independent assessment of the football program’s use of outside recruiting services. Once completed, that report will be made public. Yes, we are paying “The…
8/26/2011: That’s the takeway from Insidehighered‘s report on faculty productivity steps pushed by Governor Perry. They also have short takes today on the College Board head’s fat salary and Utah canceling classes for a football game. And a story about the Youngstown faculty union calling off a strike. The UO…
8/25/2011: The NCAA infractions committee just blackballed some unlucky coach for not fessing up to having an illegal home cookout for his recruits. Ribs? You evil, evil man. Put down the spatula and step away from the grill slowly. Meanwhile, the committee completely missed the fact that the Fiesta Bowl…
8/23/2011: Senators Grassely and Baucus have been discussing this for years, Now Forbes argues that it doesn’t make sense to give athletic boosters a tax deduction to buy hookers for the “student athletes”. You can’t open a newspaper these days without some piece on how hopeless the NCAA has become…
8/20/2011: The NCAA vows to get tough on schools that try to use athletics money to help with the players’ basic needs for drugs and hookers, instead of spending it as a righteous God intended – on car payments for the Athletic Director, his assistants, and the coaches. Oh yeah – turns…
Update: More chatter that the Div 1 football teams will leave the NCAA. That will make a lot of money for some people. 8/18/2011: From Tim Dahlberg, in the RG, on the latest football scandal from Miami: Much of it allegedly happened under the watch of former Miami athletic director…
8/17/2011: Though I have heard rumors that UO is helping the football players rent apartments in the new buildings Pat Kilkenny put up next to Matt Court. From Yahoo Sports: