Phil Knight’s financing plan for Oregon’s Best-in-class Arena put the Athletic Department in a huge financial hole. AD Rob Mullens needs your donations to dig out the Ducks.
Typical billionaire financing scheme: use as little of their own money as possible and rely on public and other people's money to get their palaces built; make preposterous projections of revenue, in line with their inflated ego; and sit back and enjoy the spoils while leaving others to clean up and pay for the mess.
Bill, when you say "academic budget" this includes research grants, correct? The results in Fig 2 and 3 then reflect that U Oregon ranks 147th in ranking of R&D expenditures (NSF NCES), far below (often $1B below) many of their Pac12/B1G compatriots. UO isn't helped by fact that biomedical research done at OHSU, whereas many other R1's have a lucrative med school (e.g., U Washington). Thanks for this!
Typical billionaire financing scheme: use as little of their own money as possible and rely on public and other people's money to get their palaces built; make preposterous projections of revenue, in line with their inflated ego; and sit back and enjoy the spoils while leaving others to clean up and pay for the mess.
Bill, when you say "academic budget" this includes research grants, correct? The results in Fig 2 and 3 then reflect that U Oregon ranks 147th in ranking of R&D expenditures (NSF NCES), far below (often $1B below) many of their Pac12/B1G compatriots. UO isn't helped by fact that biomedical research done at OHSU, whereas many other R1's have a lucrative med school (e.g., U Washington). Thanks for this!