I heard that Mariota thanked Phil Knight
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I'd be willing to bet that that's the 1st time in a Heisman speech that a booster to the program has been mentioned ...
In unrelated news, the odds that Mariota will have a lucrative endorsement contract with Uncle Phil upon declaring for the draft? -
Mariota should have also thanked Damon Huard and Scott Linehan.
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We have the best owner in college sports!!!
You have to thank Phil. The equipment, training facilities, locker room, academic center, indoor practice facility, weight room, football complex, uniforms, and stadium are all there because of Phil Knight. Oregon spend a couple million on Autzen way back when and hasn't spent a fucking dime since.
Phil is the reason why Oregon has the best of the best and the reason why the AD can pour money into being great at sports no one cares about. Without Phil Knight Oregon would be Oregon State. He's the reason why UW is never coming back. -
like I said in another thread, it's not like he's a Pablo Escobar or Osama Binladen. who the fuck cares?Mosster47 said:We have the best owner in college sports!!!
You have to thank Phil. The equipment, training facilities, locker room, academic center, indoor practice facility, weight room, football complex, uniforms, and stadium are all there because of Phil Knight. Oregon spend a couple million on Autzen way back when and hasn't spent a fucking dime since.
Phil is the reason why Oregon has the best of the best and the reason why the AD can pour money into being great at sports no one cares about. Without Phil Knight Oregon would be Oregon State. He's the reason why UW is never coming back.
he's an American success story, having built up his empire from the ground, his business has completely transformed sports and made sports, all sports, a much bigger deal in our society than they were, and both he and his Dad are alumni of the school.
i really don't get what the issue is. every thing that fucker does is calculated to better the University of Oregon, and not just sports.
soooooooo, can someone remind me again why we don't want an Uncle Phil? I don't remember the party line. -
So what happens when Uncle Phil kicks the bucket? Sure, the endowment probably exists to spend money into the program. But does Nike hit the crapper? Does new management cut some of the ties to the University of Oregon that they currently have (i.e. they start hiring more qualified employees other than those that just played at Oregon and other Nike schools)? Does the money come with strings that the new individuals get power hungry with their access? There are a lot of unknowns there.Mosster47 said:We have the best owner in college sports!!!
You have to thank Phil. The equipment, training facilities, locker room, academic center, indoor practice facility, weight room, football complex, uniforms, and stadium are all there because of Phil Knight. Oregon spend a couple million on Autzen way back when and hasn't spent a fucking dime since.
Phil is the reason why Oregon has the best of the best and the reason why the AD can pour money into being great at sports no one cares about. Without Phil Knight Oregon would be Oregon State. He's the reason why UW is never coming back.
As for why Washington "isn't coming back," that's a rich statement. There are built in advantages for the University of Washington that Oregon will never have. The one advantage Oregon has that Washington doesn't have at the moment is their own version of a Phil Knight, T Boone, etc. But our downturn has been as much about the coaches and leadership of the program than it has been anything that we have necessarily lost.
In the PAC North going forward, taking out of the equation, I'd buy Washington stock on a go-forward basis before I bought Stanford, Cal, Oregon State, or the Cuogs. -
creepycoug said:
like I said in another thread, it's not like he's a Pablo Escobar or Osama Binladen. who the fuck cares?Mosster47 said:We have the best owner in college sports!!!
You have to thank Phil. The equipment, training facilities, locker room, academic center, indoor practice facility, weight room, football complex, uniforms, and stadium are all there because of Phil Knight. Oregon spend a couple million on Autzen way back when and hasn't spent a fucking dime since.
Phil is the reason why Oregon has the best of the best and the reason why the AD can pour money into being great at sports no one cares about. Without Phil Knight Oregon would be Oregon State. He's the reason why UW is never coming back.
he's an American success story, having built up his empire from the ground, his business has completely transformed sports and made sports, all sports, a much bigger deal in our society than they were, and both he and his Dad are alumni of the school.
i really don't get what the issue is. every thing that fucker does is calculated to better the University of Oregon, and not just sports.
soooooooo, can someone remind me again why we don't want an Uncle Phil? I don't remember the party line.
People forget he has donated over $100M to Stanford too, thought I think that money is earmarked for the Business school and not for athletics.creepycoug said:
like I said in another thread, it's not like he's a Pablo Escobar or Osama Binladen. who the fuck cares?Mosster47 said:We have the best owner in college sports!!!
You have to thank Phil. The equipment, training facilities, locker room, academic center, indoor practice facility, weight room, football complex, uniforms, and stadium are all there because of Phil Knight. Oregon spend a couple million on Autzen way back when and hasn't spent a fucking dime since.
Phil is the reason why Oregon has the best of the best and the reason why the AD can pour money into being great at sports no one cares about. Without Phil Knight Oregon would be Oregon State. He's the reason why UW is never coming back.
he's an American success story, having built up his empire from the ground, his business has completely transformed sports and made sports, all sports, a much bigger deal in our society than they were, and both he and his Dad are alumni of the school.
i really don't get what the issue is. every thing that fucker does is calculated to better the University of Oregon, and not just sports.
soooooooo, can someone remind me again why we don't want an Uncle Phil? I don't remember the party line. -
Phil gives big to the Stanford B-school, tis true.
What's fun is that what is happening now had its genesis in the mid-90's when I was at UofO. I actually used to work part-time in Dave Frohnmayer's (the then-president's) office, and there was a very detailed plan that they had been working on WRT moving the university forward after the state basically de-funded it in the wake of Measure 5. Everything that was only being talked about in broad detail is actually happening - the independent board, athletics as part of a national campaign to increase awareness of the University, the first capital investment program, and now the new $2BN program.
The ultimate goal is to build a university with world-class programs in biotech, sports medicine and sports management in the B-school, upgrade the law school (happening), and eventally maybe even re-establish a medical school to facilitate research funding (universities with medical schools get about 3x the research funding compared to universities without med schools)
In the 1990's part of that goal was a $1BN endowment. I've heard that the endowment goal is now $2BN.
The last REAL President, Lariviere, got canned by the old state board for pushing too hard to get his way, but after they shit-canned him, the Lege caved and gave the UO (and PSU and I think Oregon State as well) independent boards of their own- which was really the last major hurdle. -
There's no question that if the UW had a sports management program, I would have majored in that.
I hate to say it, but if I was in high school today and looking at schools, having such a program (particularly if there was an established history of success for its graduates) would have made me give serious consideration about going to that school. -
I would imagine Phil has no less than $750 million willed to the University and at least $500 million to the AD. You can't take $8+ billion with you and it would be foolish to think he doesn't want his legacy to go unknown to every Duck fan for many decades to come.
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Yes, the grad school of biz, where he got his MBA. Like they need the money! LOL. But I think it stands as the largest donation even there. which is saying something.RavennaDawg said:creepycoug said:
like I said in another thread, it's not like he's a Pablo Escobar or Osama Binladen. who the fuck cares?Mosster47 said:We have the best owner in college sports!!!
You have to thank Phil. The equipment, training facilities, locker room, academic center, indoor practice facility, weight room, football complex, uniforms, and stadium are all there because of Phil Knight. Oregon spend a couple million on Autzen way back when and hasn't spent a fucking dime since.
Phil is the reason why Oregon has the best of the best and the reason why the AD can pour money into being great at sports no one cares about. Without Phil Knight Oregon would be Oregon State. He's the reason why UW is never coming back.
he's an American success story, having built up his empire from the ground, his business has completely transformed sports and made sports, all sports, a much bigger deal in our society than they were, and both he and his Dad are alumni of the school.
i really don't get what the issue is. every thing that fucker does is calculated to better the University of Oregon, and not just sports.
soooooooo, can someone remind me again why we don't want an Uncle Phil? I don't remember the party line.
People forget he has donated over $100M to Stanford too, thought I think that money is earmarked for the Business school and not for athletics.creepycoug said:
like I said in another thread, it's not like he's a Pablo Escobar or Osama Binladen. who the fuck cares?Mosster47 said:We have the best owner in college sports!!!
You have to thank Phil. The equipment, training facilities, locker room, academic center, indoor practice facility, weight room, football complex, uniforms, and stadium are all there because of Phil Knight. Oregon spend a couple million on Autzen way back when and hasn't spent a fucking dime since.
Phil is the reason why Oregon has the best of the best and the reason why the AD can pour money into being great at sports no one cares about. Without Phil Knight Oregon would be Oregon State. He's the reason why UW is never coming back.
he's an American success story, having built up his empire from the ground, his business has completely transformed sports and made sports, all sports, a much bigger deal in our society than they were, and both he and his Dad are alumni of the school.
i really don't get what the issue is. every thing that fucker does is calculated to better the University of Oregon, and not just sports.
soooooooo, can someone remind me again why we don't want an Uncle Phil? I don't remember the party line.
