In a stunning reversal, Arizona State’s athletic department countermanded its decision to eliminate wrestling from its men’s intercollegiate athletic program.
For the Sun Devils, it was the money that mattered. Backers of ASU wrestling pledged $8 million to endow the sport. Unlike the situation at Oregon, there seems to have been no hidden agenda to eliminate wrestling–no underlying desire to dispense with a blue-collar sport that didn’t fit an image of glitz and glamor being promoted by athletic department image makers. No spurious allegations regarding gender equity had been made to justify cutting wrestling when the decision was announced on May 13.
More than 5,000 Arizona high school athletes wrestle. When Sun Devil boosters stepped forward to insure Arizona State would remain as the sole statewide opportunity for them to earn a Division I athletic scholarship, that satisfied the athletic administration. Early in the process, ASU had set a price tag for saving the three endangered men’s sports. Wrestling obtained the required $8 million. It will cost $5 million each to save swimming and tennis.
Oregon wrestling backers have raised almost $3 million in donations and pledges, despite active discouragement by Duck athletic administrators. If athletic director Pat Kilkenny would set a reasonable price for endowing the sport, Save Oregon Wrestling maintains, the required amount would become available quickly. Instead, reports have surfaced that Oregon has urged local Duck clubs to stay out of the frey, threatened to withdraw business from entities inclined to donate to wrestling, and pressured the Oregon School Activities Association to disallow SOW fund raising at the state wrestling tournament.
Compare this attitude with the one expressed by ASU Vice President for Athletics, Lisa Love: “It is with great pleasure that I announce the reinstatement of the varsity sport of wrestling at ASU,” Love said. “The wrestling community, both locally and nationally, accepted this as a challenge to do something wonderful for the sport. ASU is forever grateful for that passion and unwavering support. Something special is happening on our campus thanks to civic leadership that cares deeply about ASU wrestling.”
For more information regarding ASU’s decision, visit the Save ASU Wrestling web site. Click here to read the Arizona State press release. Click here to read the Arizona Republic article.
What Dying Sport? Arizona State Saves Wrestling
This happy, harmonious and enlightened outcome was made possible by Art Martori of Sunkist fame. His love of wrestling, deep pockets, and deeper connections to other big hitters (like Jerry Colangelo) whom he enlisted to lobby the ASU president directly, made this deal come together. Lisa Love really had no choice when the president told her that his prominent donors were insistent. Martori also guaranteed $450K of his own money to pay for next year, while more money is raised to fund the $8 million required for endowment.
Oregon could have easily done the same thing, but perhaps lacked the incentive in the form of the persuasive encouragement of mega-donors and their financial might speaking out for wrestling. Curiously, Phil Knight hasn’t even offered an opinion on the wrestling situation, despite numerous entreaties.
This victory for ASU wrestling comes with a price tag of relegation to be self-funded from here on out. Wrestling is no longer a sport worthy of ASU’s financial support. While such endowment offers it a degree of protection against future scheming to do away with it, its stature is reduced, and its acquiescence to pay its own way inspires more athletic directors across the land to employ this kind of extortion. Let’s hope it’s not a Pyrrhic victory.
There is no doubt that Oregon State’s fully endowed scholarship complement, thanks to the hard work of Dale Thomas and the largess of Robin Reed’s widow, keeps the wolf away from the wrestling room door in Corvallis.
I’m afraid Hank is right. Men’s non-revenue sports are imperiled nationwide, except track at Oregon, wrestling at Oklahoma State, and a few other places where tradition provides a parapet of sorts against the relentless onslaught of college athletic commercialization.
Oregon could continue wrestling if it wanted. Instead, it wants to spend the money on football, men’s basketball, track, and Mr. Kilkenny’s new favorite, baseball. That’s why he never quoted a figure for Ron Finley’s team to achieve. He didn’t want us to cross the finish line.
Perhaps the irony will manifest itself some time in the future. Under a new athletic administration, we’ll see if baseball enjoys the protected status it now has. Better win early and often, George Horton. The handwriting is already on the wall.
Isn’t this the kind of money that football and b-ball bring in regularly through revenue or doantions?
It seems to me if more people would show up for matches and donate to the school more often, we might not have been in this boat in the first place. I see these AD’s simply asking for what we have never bothered to bring in, in the first place.
Did the AD’s ask us to bring in the bucks before they dropped wrestling? If they did it would have been part of the head coach’s evaluation. I have never gotten an e-mail from any Oregon University about wrestling results or needs until they announced the exclusion of wrestling. Yet I get e-mails from Iowa State University. Go figure.
With ASU keeping wrestling, it will give ASU another football recruiting advantage over Oregon. I can hear Erickson’s recruiting speech for the great wrestler-football athlete that Oregon has offered a scholarship to also: “They don’t even wrestle at Oregon–those Ducks just don’t like it tough–they are soft at the U of O.”
Definately. Erickson was a big wrestling supporter while at OSU.
However, as far as money goes, is it the AD’s job to make contact or the coaching staff’s? Or is it our job to stay in touch as well? I think its both ours and the coaching staffs job.
Curtis, send me your address if you want on the OSU update list. We have been sending out email updates for 2 yrs.
Maybe we start making a push to convince the Pac-10 officals to force Pac-10 members to add more programs. Give them a minimum number of teams. Maybe at least 6. Use the fact that wrestling is the 6th most popular sport in the US. talking to the AD’s themselves seems to make no difference. Talk to the conference officials and the NCAA president and change their minds about the sport.
The NCAA already requires D-1 schools to field a minimum number of sports for men and women. I think it’s seven each, and/or six men’s and eight women’s teams.
As for wrestling being a football recruiting advantage, while not having wrestling is nothing but a negative, I’m unaware of any current Pac-10 football players who are also wrestling. And I can’t remember the last time Bellotti had one of his players wrestling. The football/wrestling option was effectively taken off the table at Oregon long before wrestling was dropped. I asked several of the UO assistant football coaches about this over the years and received a number of answers. One told me that they didn’t have any players tough enough to wrestle. But the more common rationale is that specialized off-season football conditioning has replaced wrestling, and coaches are satisfied with this, as they don’t have to worry as much about injury, weight loss, or (especially) keeping their kids eligible.
By the way, I’m not sure that Bellotti has any love for wrestling. I heard that he privately expressed his regrets about the demise of the program, but I don’t see him being much of an advocate for reinstatement should he eventually become AD.
I’m not talking about the NCAA, I’m talking about lobbying the Pac-10 officials themselves in making a minimum requirement of wrestling teams to at least 6-7. Or at least encouraging it.
Then address the NCAA specifically about wrestling. Talk about how the college programs don’t reflect the number of HS wrestlers there are in US. Maybe get them to to change the minimum amount of sports from 9 each, instead of 7. Maybe even 10.
I hear also that Bellotti has expressed his dismay with the cuts in private, but I’m sure that’s all. I’m sure he’s afraid if he speaks out that he’ll be fired. Same with Ernie Kent.
Ah, we can dream, I guess, of a gloriously transcendent day somewhere in the future when UW, UCLA and Oregon boldly reinstate their shuttered wrestling programs, complemented by parity-matching women’s wrestling teams. Do you think this is more or less likely to happen than, say, a total nationwide wrestling boycott of Nike?
I hadn’t heard about any Bellotti dismay. Hard to Imagine that he has any worries about getting fired. Any time he opens his mouth the UO/boosters feed him more money.
I did see Ernie at the Pac-10s, and he strongly opined (in very colorful language, no less) to my teammate, Leonard Simon, that wrestling belongs at Oregon.
Ernie was a Kamikaze Kid. As a survivor of the Dick Harter regime, he knew a bit about toughness. I’m not surprised he expressed some strong feelings about wrestling, although he, like every other coach on the staff, certainly seems to have kept them to himself during a period when wrestling found it had few friends in the department.
One can hope. Hope can move mountains sometimes.
Bellotti opening his mouth about something that is against the Kilkenny/Knight regime, would definately cause him headaches.
I guess what I’d like to see is someone in that athletic dept. stand up to these guys and amke things happen. Not just us wrestling folk, but other coaches standing together.
I guess I might be living in a dreamworld, but like I said, one can hope. Maybe it will take someone chaining themselves to their desks to get them to open their eyes or even a good old fashioned hunger strike to get media attention. take it to the streets just like Kesey did with the bus.
A couple of thoughts…I agree with the concerns expressed about a (national) trend towards non-revenue sports being forced to self fund. It would, however, create a catch 22 that I would HOPE university admins would consider; that is many donors, myself included, that will NO LONGER give any $ to the athletic dept in general OR any $ to the university in general…all the money will go to the donor’s non-revenue sport of choice! I suspect this would be a SIGNIFICANT bucket of money that the universities would no longer get their grubby, fat fingers on.
Second, I heard Coach Robinson (Minn) talking about the Big 10 having “core sports” that are REQUIRED to be part of the conference; one of them is wrestling, so to drop wrestling in the Big 10 jeopardizes membership in the conference…
Anyone catch Coach Ortiz’s comments on the Intermat Blog? This was from the 5-23 edition, and he was talking about his boss:
“We’re fortunate she had the guts to step in and reinstate the program. She didn’t have to. She’s an ex-head coach, I think that’s what saved us. She’s not selling insurance, she knows the value of education and sport.”
A strategically placed shot? I think so! I’m glad ASU will still be around. We need to reverse one more decision – the sooner the better.
Kilkenny knows the value of college athletics. It looks like this, $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and has a bunch of swooshes all over it.
In a recent radio interview, Kilkenny talks about Knight’s involvement with UO and he comments on how he just interested in making UO sports the best they can be. However, it more about just making him more money. Someone told me the reason why the Bowerman’s and Knights had a falling out was because Bowerman was about making a better shoe and Knight was only about making more money.
This is no different.
Did love the pop shot though.
Interesting to see the way that wrestling has been treated compared to baseball……
Alumni stepping up to the plate
By Rob Moseley
The Register-Guard
Published: May 27, 2008 12:00AM
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While Oregon prepares for two weekend appearances by actor Kevin Costner’s rock band to benefit the school’s reborn baseball team, the Ducks will host another event Saturday that could prove just as vital to the program’s fundraising efforts.
Prior to the second of two shows by Costner’s band, Modern West, at the Hult Center, a reunion for former UO baseball players is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. Saturday next door in the Eugene Hilton. The athletic department is reaching out to alumni of the program, which was disbanded in 1981 and reinstated last year, both in a nod to the sport’s rich history at Oregon and as a financial base for its fundraising.
To meet its goal of being fiscally self-sufficient, the program intends to raise $20 million over seven years, to pay for the construction of its new stadium and fully endow each coaching position.
There have been “significant, major gifts” pledged to the team, UO senior associate athletic director Joe Giansante said; director of athletics Pat Kilkenny has pledged a donation, and the Ducks got $2.5 million for naming rights to the field from a marketing agreement. But about half of the more than $10 million pledged, Giansante said, has stemmed from more grassroots efforts, with former players taking a key role.
“For years and years we’ve heard them say they want baseball reinstated at Oregon,” Giansante said. “Well, Pat got it done. And so now we have no problem saying, hey, we need your help.”
By all accounts, alumni seem to be flocking back to the program, a trend Oregon hopes will continue through events like Saturday’s reunion. Giansante has a goal of 100 percent participation by former players, and said that “we’ve been overwhelmed with the response.”
Tom Bowen, a member of the UO varsity from 1955-57 who later coached at Sheldon High, already pledged a donation that will affix his name to the UO baseball history exhibit planned for the new stadium. He said his fellow alumni are “ecstatic” about the chance to support the program again.
“I hope they have a good database for all the old players,” Bowen said. “Because I haven’t talked to one from my era who isn’t ready to get in and help. They’re all enthusiastic.”
Larry Hanson, an all-American infielder in 1967 and 1968, said admission to the new stadium will be “a tough ticket to come by” based on conversations he has had with other former players who still live in the area.
“I feel like I owe them something,” said Hanson, a .351 hitter over those two seasons. “I got to go there on a scholarship, and I’m definitely going to give them money back.”
Along with the history exhibit, the new stadium will have a letterman’s wall listing the name of every UO baseball player, regardless of whether he’s a donor, Giansante said. There is also a separate fundraising effort by a group including longtime area high school coach Jim Fryback to name entrances to the stadium for former UO baseball coaches Don Kirsch and Mel Krause.
Fryback hopes to raise $120,000 in donations to the Mel Krause/Don Kirsch Legacy Fund, through the UO Foundation, to name the gates and construct statues of the two. Fryback played for Krause at Sheldon, one of three local prep programs the coach started before replacing Kirsch at Oregon in 1971.
Any funds raised beyond the $120,000 will be passed on to the program, Fryback said.
“It’s one of those things where money talks,” Fryback said. “If we’re going to have a good baseball program, we’re going to have to do it.”
While a number of ex-players have remained in the area, the Ducks are exploring alumni fundraising events in locales with other large contingents, including Portland, Seattle and Northern California. The team’s return to competition is scheduled to be in the San Francisco Bay Area, Feb. 20, 2009, at Saint Mary’s in Moraga, Calif.
Giansante and the administration have “bent over backwards” to establish ties to the former players, Bowen said, which might explain the lack of lingering resentment over the program’s dissolution in 1981.
“Not one person that I’ve talked to has ever said, ‘They didn’t treat us right in the 80s, so I’m not going to treat them right now,’” Bowen said. “It’s, ‘what can we do to help get this going?’”
The hiring of head coach George Horton, who has a national title on his resume, furthered the alumni’s enthusiasm, Hanson said. Horton has been involved in the efforts to reach out to alumni, having given a memorable speech at the celebration of life held for Krause last month.
Horton played, worked as an assistant and was eventually head coach at Cal State Fullerton before coming to Oregon. He said he had “deep roots” with his former program’s alumni.
“It was a special arena I was representing,” Horton said. “Here, I want to grasp that.”
Events like this weekend’s reunion, the Ducks believe, will help them do so. They expect the reborn baseball program’s alumni to be a key donor base, and so far those expectations are being met.
“I’m a big believer in momentum,” Giansante said. “And we clearly have a lot of momentum, there’s no question about that.”
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Funny, when wrestlers try and do this, its considered a problem and discouraged by the UO admin.
I’m just curious what the latest is in the Save Oregon Wrestling. I’m not trying to spill any secrets, just curious if any headway has been made with the administration, how well the fundraising is going, etc.
Any accurate info is appreciated.
Thanks
NOT MUCH WITH THIS ADMIN, that I am aware of! THE FIGHT IS CONTINUING.
This administration is intransigent. No headway is possible. Read my comment in the Forum’s section. I wish I could say more now, but believe me, you’ll hear a lot soon about a battle fought in another venue.
Is this the same administration that didn’t allow selling save wrestling t-shirts at the PAC 10’s and state tournament?
As I understand it, those were two separate issues. We had trouble with some t-shirts sold at McArthur Court at various times during the season because the wrestling booster who made a batch of them unknowingly included the trademarked Nike logo. Otherwise, we were able to sell non-trademarked S.O.W. gear at both the NWCA meet and Pac-10 Tournament.
We requested permission to set up a Save Oregon Wresting table at the OSAA state meet and were denied. The denial letter contained the typical boilerplate language about keeping the focus on the competitors and not advocating peripheral issues. Elsewhere on this web site you can find others who have said the athletic department exerted pressure on the OSAA, threatening to deny use of U of O athletic facilities if they let us advocate wrestling at the tournament.
Had a problem with a swosh on an Oregon wrestling shirt? Must prefer mostly extinct programs. Check this out:
http://www.shopncaasports.com/search/wrestling
Only 2 of those still have programs.
If possible rattle the cages of our lazy media out there because the decision about a UO/Nike vs. Fairmount neighbors will be released on (very quietly)June 3. If the decision is against the neighborhood it sounds like they will appeal the case to a higher court. It is all extremely complicated and important so with our media oversimplification pattern good luck. That said, I could use some help just calling the usual local media slackers so they can put out their usual infomercial about the latest events related to the flailing project. I think Kilkenny will be pushed out if the arena continues at its current flawed angle the only question is when? The arena opposition has diversity and some with $ understand the spiraling slippery slope of future UO eminent domain abuse and continuation of general neighborhood degradation potential building here along Franklin (thats my theory). To me it seems obvious the “field of schemes” is competing with the arena and therefore possibly delaying both or worse. Phil’s tough deadlines probably helped Frohnmayer jump ship-he knows they are not possible and wants to hide in Eastern Oregon.
Trying to get media to write something negative about this whole ordeal is like pulling teeth. They simply don’t want to rock the boat. The Oregonian is trying to make waves, but you have so many other media outlets that are running their spin machines harder than ever before.
The students are totally clueless as they are all into the glitz and glamour that is UO now.
What’s its going to come down to is having a good old fashioned, sit in or hunger strike to get these people’s attention.
The Olympic trials are Save Oregon Wrestling’s oppurtunity to get their message out as I’m sure you already know. Is there any upcoming events that are planned that can be disclosed?
I hope we can somehow get the message out to those people. I hope someone from UO will be ina attendance to spread the word.
Here is an email I received today.
Thank you for your e-mail and your interest in intercollegiate wrestling. Mr. Kilkenny has asked me to respond to your message.
The recent elimination and then reinstatement of intercollegiate wrestling at Arizona State University has once again brought attention to the University of Oregon’s decision to drop the sport at the conclusion of this academic year. There are several important distinctions between Arizona State’s “out and back in” decisions and Oregon’s decision.
Arizona State’s advocates for intercollegiate wrestling were able to determine the amount needed to endow their program and raise the $8 million necessary in ten days. SaveOregonWrestling still has not reached the three million dollar mark after one year. Arizona State’s eight million dollars were cash pledges to save the program and to endow it. Oregon’s cash funds are closer to $650,000 while the remainder is in the form of loans and “gift-in-kind” pledges for a new facility. There is an additional, significant pledge (included in SaveOregonWrestling’s figures) which will only be given if the program is re-instated.
Lack of an adequate fan base and interest in the program was one of the primary reasons for the elimination of Oregon’s program. Over the course of the last six years, paid attendance at Oregon wrestling matches has been two hundred and fifty-three people. Over the course of the last two academic years, donations to Oregon wrestling have been $9,300 and $9,050, respectively.
Lack of conference affiliation was also a primary reason for dropping the program. Even with the reinstatement of Arizona State’s wrestling team, there are now only three universities in the Pacific-Ten conference who sponsor wrestling; and in the case of one of those programs, the team is not fully funded. The following chart gives you an indication of where wrestling stands nationally at the collegiate level:
NCAA Division One Wrestling Programs: 87 out of 330 Division One colleges and universities
Those which field a Division I Football Team: 39 out of 119
BCS Conference Affiliation: 29 out of 66
Pac-Ten Conference: 3 out of 10
Big-Twelve Conference: 5 out of 12
Southeastern Conference: 0 out of 12
NCAA Division Two Wrestling: 43 out of 293 Division Two colleges and universities
NCAA Division Three Wrestling: 97 out of 445 Division Three colleges
Total number of NCAA colleges and universities with wrestling: 227 out of 1068 members
The decision to drop wrestling was a difficult one and has obviously impacted the lives of many. However, the facts have not changed at the University of Oregon and the decision stands.
Sincerely,
Neal Zoumboukos
Special Assistant to the Athletic Director
Hey all Nike-governance skeptics a victory today! The UO lost in court with the Fairmount neighbors! This is good news and the media is preoccupied with global whining. That said I will be circling and researching this breaking news and will write in when I can nail down the implications of this win. If you do not think saving wrestling and the arena are linked that’s okay but I believe all the “attached strings” are thoroughly tangled here. In other words the more trouble the arena sinks into(political quicksand) the better off wrestling will be.
Brian, thanks for your post. I have sent emails to all of the key administrators and letters by USPS to Mr. Kilkenny and Dr. Frohnmayer, with no response. I have to wonder a few things about Mr. Z’s response. He didn’t mention Title IX, lack of practice facility, or lack of competition facility as he did in an earlier interview. Why did he choose to cite the stats for the Big 12 and SEC, as opposed to the Big 10 (11 out of 11), Ivy League (6/8), MAC (6/12), ACC (5/11)? Why does he compare wrestling stats to BCS and D1 football; has all of college sports become entirely driven by football? I wonder what the paid attendance has been for the other sports. i can’t imagine they draw alot for golf, tennis, lacrosse, soccer, cross country. As a side note, there are fewer womens lacrosse teams than wrestling teams at both D1 and D2, and only three from the Pac 10. It would be interesting to see attendance and donations figures for all sports at U of O. I would think wrestling compares favorably to all except the big three in both categories, especially if you include the SOW funds.
Zachary, thanks for your update, too. Sometimes it’s hard to get info here in the midwest, even though I check SOW and DSN regularly.
Its called spin. I’m sure after getting his butt reamed by Kilkenny and Knight for his earlier comments about the cut, he was told to try and spin this in their direction, the best they could. This way, it doesn’t always look like they are full of lies when they cite their reasons. Also, they he failed to mention that ASU is not in the clear, but the AD was willing to work with the donors at keeping the program while they worked to endow it. She gave them a solid number to reach and they intend on doing so. This is something UO never did.
And heaven forbid he mention NAIA or JC school numbers where there’s been a ton of growth.
These are just a list of more excuses to cover up their mistake.
Time to take it to the streets folks and go to the college and havea good old fashioned sit in or hunger strike to get the mass media attention. They are trying their best to shut us down, but I say “fck em!”
Yes, those are questions worth asking. What is the attendance at other sports? What did the UO ever do to really try and help the attendance? Rich, you hit it on the head. The folks at ASU were willing to sit down and get a plan together to save the sport. At the UO, not so. Maybe if the UO didnt have such a top heavy administration (count i think 14 AD/associate/assistant/executive/asskisser) and weren’t paying a bunch of folks that should of retired to answer emails for the guy it was sent to, the funds might be a little more accessible to keep athletics alive. After all, it is an ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT, or supposed to be one anyway. That is maybe part of the problem, too many big dogs wagging their tails on the porch (and golfing and going to Kevin Costner concerts) and not enough hunting out in the field.
Mr. Tipsword, Thank you sir. The Oregonian in the last few days have been pretty good on reporting the seriousness of the Knight arena trainwreck. I will try to keep the honorable Save Oregon Wrestling readers well informed of what my research suggests is going on. The Oregonian is a often a good source because they do not hide there articles after a week like the obnoxious Cashregister Gaurd and they have way less SPIN in their news gathering efforts(however they did endorse the proposal with some very fuzzy logic early on). The underdogs are now leading in Eugene(even the ones who do not realize it yet). Kilkennys wrestling hit is not something he can sustain. I hope Moos can make some room for him at the farm soon. More details to come as they emerge.
Yes, the quicker he is put out to pasture, the better. Thanks you Zach for the update.
Why don’t we develop a 2008-2009 UO Wrestling Season Ticket commitment list? I can commit to 4 season tickets that would include me and my family. If a Season Ticket price is, let’s say $100 and we have a commitment of only 1/3 of the signed petitioners (number is 7424), that in itself amounts to $250,000 annually. This doesn’t even include corporate sponsorship. I could help out with that as well….
I know that with my work schedule, I can’t attend all of the matches, but I would be willing to donate the tickets I couldn’t use to elementary/middle/high schools, Sororities (Wrestlers need girlfriends too – and with wrestling being originated in Greece, this would be a good “fit” with the Greek system.
In all seriousness, this commitment list of season tickets would show to the powers to be, that wrestling is not a dead sport…..
Just a thought!
Vince Hochanadel (UO Alumni Wrestler class of 1988)
I think Vince has a GREAT idea!
Even living in MT I would do it and donate most of the tickets to local Eugene kids. A (long) list of season ticket holders is a very tangible display for the administration with easy to calculate “cash value” for the program.
Great idea, but I do not think they have ever sold season tickets have they? What a novel concept, you would think that the marketing dept. may have thought about that. I think many would support this.
Do any colleges do this out West?
Who cares if other colleges do this or not. I don’t think we even need to wait for the so called “UO Athletic Marketing Department” to help us out.
In business, it’s called “do whatever it takes – get the job done”. We now play by OUR rules. We are answering every objection this UO athletic administration so eloquently displayed, and are getting the same obtuse and complicated answer. “NO”.
Glenn,
If you are volunteering to getting this done, I will work with you. All it takes is an Excel spreadsheet and a commitment list. We can then present this to Coach Finley for us to proceed. I don’t have your phone number or email, but either way – I will contact you the early part of this week.
All I ask, is that once we all get our Wrestling Program up and running – and continuous for the next 100 years, we go fishing in Montana to celebrate. But first, let’s get this one through.
Vince
Vince and Glenn,
You can signed me and my family up for the season ticket too. The U of O will see that alot of the new baseball signies might not even be stepping on the new baseball field because they were drafted this week. So all of those men’s slow pitch soft ball players might keep their schedules open because the U of O will need them to field a team.
5 pm today is the hearing for the UOAD greenway permit(it is necessary to build the proposed Autzen field of schemes). Displaced tailgaters and park advocates should show up and testify. The hearing is at 777 Pearl street at city of Eugene council chamber.
UO ARENA has two alley vacating hearings on July 21 at 7:30pm at Eugene city council chamber. The more testimony against the handing over of the alleys by the city of Eugene we can generate at this hearing the worse off the Nike “just do what Phil says” agenda to restructure and expand/reconfigure UO for its marketing purposes will be. More arena hurdles and delays means Save Oregon Wrestling will do better in its mission to survive.The issues are connected.
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