7/9/2011: John Canzano (left) tries to explain why it’s OK for Oregon to pay Chip Kelly $3.5 million, but not OK for Oregon to pay Willie Lyles $25,000. I’m no psychologist, but I think they call the micro-expression of the guy on the right “WTF?”
Posts tagged as “NCAA”
7/9/2011: It didn’t take long for the UO administration to decide that Melinda Grier would be the scapegoat for Frohnmayer’s failure to get a written contract for Mike Bellotti. And she was an excellent choice, in so many ways. But now Ms Grier is gone and the search for someone…
7/8/2011: This is hilarious – from Ken Goe in the Oregonian. For years the UO Foundation has been little more than a money laundering operation for the Duck Athletic Fund. And all of a sudden the Chairman of the Board of Trustees is “concerned”? … So, trustees were caught flat-footed…
7/8/2011: This is the revenue and expenditure report the UO athletic department files with the NCAA every Feb. You’d think the the athletic department’s Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director for Finance and Administration Jamie Moffitt would just post these on the web, but no. It took a month, a meeting with…
A: Even a casual NCAA investigation is going to dig up worse stuff than Willie Lyles and an iffy car rental. B: If the NCAA comes down on the Ducks, Phil Knight and Howard Slusher are going to pursue the souls of those who make that call all the way…
7/7/2011: I’ve been getting calls from reporters expecting me to give them a quote about how outraged the UO faculty are about the recent athletic scandals. As may be apparent to careful readers, I do have a bit of a beef about the jock box subsidy, the lies about the…
7/6/2011: The NCAA is shitting all over Chip Kelly because he paid Willie Lyles $25,000 to steer a few kids from Texas our way, and because a staffer rented a few players a car for the weekend. But if we want to hire someone to spy on the team and…
7/6/2011: We wrote earlier about how UO General Counsel Randy Geller told Jamie Moffitt not to tell the UO Senate IAC committee about the costs of the Willie Lyles cover-up, or if the academic side would be left holding the bag again. Steve Duin at the Oregonian has the contracts,…
working in a Houston grocery store. That’s about $16,000 a year. It’s a sad story, from Canzano. The guy is just trying to make a living, hoping for a paycheck, being an entrepreneur with what he’s got, dealing with a system that is heavily stacked against people like him –…
7/4/2011: Stunning news from my colleagues down at the faculty club. The University of Oregon’s Athletic Department is preparing to free themselves from the NCAA’s oppressive football recruiting rules by forming a new “united sports association”, in congress with other state universities. Word is that Howard Slusher and Pat Killenny…
7/2/2011: George Schroeder of the RG accuses UO of a cover up: But the larger concern Oregon’s power brokers — President Richard Lariviere, athletic director Rob Mullens, are you listening? — should have today is over the clumsy attempt at a cover-up. It deletes the Ducks’ dodge that they were…
7/1/2011: From Yahoo Sports: In a wide-ranging, multi-day interview, Lyles said Kelly “scrambled” in late February and asked Lyles to submit retroactive player profiles to justify the $25,000 payment to his company, just days before the transaction was revealed in a March 3 Yahoo! Sports report. … “I look back…
7/1/2011: It’s getting harder and harder for the NCAA to enforce their rule that only white people get to make money off college sports. Bill Rhoden says in the NYT, about Ohio State: This violated N.C.A.A. rules. But the biggest rule it violated was an unwritten one: that the only…
6/24/2011: That’s the drift from George Schroeder’s piece today in the RG. ESPN writes more. Well, at least they’re not using student tuition to pay the $2 million costs of the athlete only Jock Box tutoring. Oh wait, right. Well, at least they’re not siphoning off state lottery funds to…
6/22/2011: At worst, the UO athletic department slipped a player a bit of cash via a “street agent.” I’m no economist, but I think this is called “the free market.” The cover-up though, ouch. UO has had these public records requests for months. Incompetence? Really? Bob Clark of the RG…