I mean, what’s the alternative? Have the vice assistant dean delay his vacation house renovation? Have the football team live in squalor among 10-year-old facilities? You academics are so greedy
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It’s a bit hypocritical to say “sacrifices need to be made” when your own salaries remain untouched.
aug 18, 2025, 10:18 pm • 7 0 • view
What is the net $$ benefit/detriment of maintaining the sports programs? I know there would be a lot of factors in that calculation.
aug 18, 2025, 9:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, without a doubt, most football teams at the level of the Ducks make money for the school. The only question is whether the university keeps some of it
aug 18, 2025, 9:36 pm • 1 0 • view
What about when factoring in all the other sports?
aug 18, 2025, 10:02 pm • 0 0 • view
From my time there, football and women’s basketball were the most popular sports. Like extremely popular.
aug 18, 2025, 10:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Also, a lot of track/field competitions happen at UO. Idk how much money the school makes from that, but given that it’s televised and well attended, I can only imagine the financial benefits.
aug 18, 2025, 10:23 pm • 1 0 • view
UO athletics are very closely connected to Nike. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_an...
aug 19, 2025, 1:06 am • 0 0 • view
In short, basically recruiting / putting Oregon on the map; leading to increased out of state tuition is the benefit. All the other financials are very separate.
aug 18, 2025, 10:12 pm • 2 0 • view
I haven't actually read any of the research in question but apparently there's evidence that having a successful football team has a ton of knock-on benefits for the school, even down to things like likelihood of faculty getting published 😵💫😵💫😵💫
aug 18, 2025, 10:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Yea, for D1. All those schools at D2 and 3 spend a lot of taxpayer and student money to have all teams, even football and men’s basketball, go. Like millions and millions that they don’t make up in any way. A giant hole to throw money in for the criminal NCAA cabal.
aug 18, 2025, 10:44 pm • 1 0 • view
yeah this is what I was shorthanding with "successful football teams." everywhere else it's just delusional admins throwing money into a hole
aug 18, 2025, 10:49 pm • 2 0 • view
my kids are trying to get themselves recruited for D1 rowing and I don't have any idea how the benefits they would get would pay for themselves but I'll take it it might be the old idea that if you can lock in and run 4:10 mile in high school you probably have what it take to succeed in college
aug 18, 2025, 11:17 pm • 0 0 • view
I might be able to provide a lot of recruiting advice for you to think about. Having stated that, I should post an entirely new thread to follow this one. Others can join in to augment what I'll advise. Stay tuned.
aug 19, 2025, 2:02 am • 0 0 • view
Thanks that prompted a few conversations.
aug 20, 2025, 5:32 pm • 0 0 • view
You're welcome, always. My daughter was a D1 level athlete who (fortunately because we discovered written articles early in the recruiting process) realized a D3 environment much better suited her mindset. Best decision ever. Almost all her teammates that went D1 hated it and quit after frosh year.
aug 20, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
you can't seriously expect them to eliminate any interrim vice provost positions
aug 18, 2025, 10:34 pm • 1 0 • view