I do commend Jay for at least giving us another avenue to speak, but his one-sidedness with the whole ordel reeks at times. The whole character flaw comments, were way out of line.

To me Jay seems predisposed to defend Oregon unless the circumstances are indefensible. Then he clams up. I’ve never read an editorial criticism from his pen that goes against an administrator. Let the conversation go the other way, however, and he’s far from neutral. He has taken Steve Duin to task, as he did Michael Copperman when he wrote that article for Eugene Weekly. I’m still smoking about his questioning of our wrestlers’ integrity the morning of the lawsuit, and have called him on it several times on his own blog.

Hey, if you want to say the coaches, fans, or boosters are morally character flawed, go ahead. He can come after me anytime he likes. But when somebody attributes a character deficiency to our student-athletes merely because they exercised their rights to the court system, that’s not pro-Duck in my way of thinking.

When you’re spring loaded to defend the administration rather than the athletes, that says something about you.

I guess I don’t like what I see at my alma mater some 30 years after I graduated. I remember a pretty good school that produced a lot of smart liberal arts and pre-professional students. A lot of sharp doctors, lawyers, teachers, and writers used to come through the UO. Maybe they still do. These days, however, the business school, the sports marketing school, and the athletic department seem to have produced a different mindset than what I encountered in Eugene.

I hear ya as well. Who is this Jay guy? We are not the bad guys here.