I got Marvin at +3000 about a month ago and he's been climbing. 5 more TDs the next two weeks and 250 yards in a perfect season would be an outstanding season
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Ex-Sooners QB Gabriel transferring to Oregon
Quarterback Dillon Gabriel, who spent the past two seasons at Oklahoma, announced his transfer to Oregon on Saturday.
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LovelandBuckeye
You never lose to those pricks. Ever. Ever. - UFM
RuNnIng FRoM dA sEc!!1°°Ex-Sooners QB Gabriel transferring to Oregon
Quarterback Dillon Gabriel, who spent the past two seasons at Oklahoma, announced his transfer to Oregon on Saturday.www.espn.com
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
I see Bo Nix made the decision to not wear socks with a suit and tie. Something...something about being able to take the boy out of Alabama...
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Not that this wasn't obvious based on our recent recruiting misses, but Uncle Phil is going all in with NIL.
usatodayhss.com
Oregon football has 'unlimited' NIL backing from Nike
Phil Knight is ready to spend for Oregon football.
usatodayhss.com
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Captain Buckeye
Legend
Why aren’t other schools stepping up and telling them to knock it off?
If you’re a Nike school which is likely 90% of college football then is it not a problem that your sponsor is paying kids to go to a school that is a direct competitor?
In other words, OSU etc are funding their own opposition in the end.
If you’re a Nike school which is likely 90% of college football then is it not a problem that your sponsor is paying kids to go to a school that is a direct competitor?
In other words, OSU etc are funding their own opposition in the end.
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ExpatAkronite
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A bit of a gray area but what Uncle Phil gives to UO directly ( and it is alot) has nothing to do with Nike (except that it is where he mademost of the money...). He's been retired from Nike for nearly 10 years and I believe is now a minority shareholder.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Just an interesting article:
nypost.com
In 2005, Nike Chairman and co-founder Phil Knight issued a shocking mandate to his alma mater, the University of Oregon.
He told the university’s athletic director, Bill Moos, to fire his track and field coach Martin Smith.
At the time, Moos was the most successful athletic director in the school’s history, and he and Knight enjoyed a strong, decade-long relationship. But on this point, Moos disagreed — he refused to fire Smith.
For Knight, who is currently Forbes’ 16th richest person in the US, this was unacceptable.
He told university president Dave Frohnmayer that he wanted both Smith and Moos gone, and that he would withhold much-needed funding for the construction of the school’s new basketball arena until it was done.
Smith was forced out in late 2005; Moos left, after much pressure, in 2007. Knight then insisted that Pat Kilkenny, a university donor with no experience in college athletics, replace Moos. Again, Knight got his way.
The new book “University of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education” (Melville House), out Tuesday, exposes how Knight’s massive corporate donations to the University of Oregon’s athletic departments made him and his corporation the de facto leaders of the college.
After Oregon voters passed a measure in 1990 cutting funding for state universities by 20 percent, the publicly funded University of Oregon sought out corporate money.
Since 1994, Knight has donated almost $1 billion to the school, much of it going toward the construction or renovation of various athletic facilities.
But even as Knight’s generosity turned Oregon’s sports teams into national powerhouses, it also gave him increasing control over the school.
“He acts like these are not gifts, but investments from which he expects a certain type of loyalty,” the book’s author, Joshua Hunt, told The Post.
According to Hunt, Knight bought influence any way he could, even by personally contributing $40,000 toward Frohnmayer’s annual salary in the mid-’90s.
Knight also made an annual Christmas donation of $1 million to the Fanconi Anemia Research Fund, founded by Frohnmayer and his wife in 1989 — a charity unaffiliated with the university. Fanconi anemia (FA) is a rare and fatal disease that ran in Frohnmayer’s family and eventually killed all three of the couple’s daughters.
While the contributions were unquestionably generous, they made Frohnmayer beholden to Knight both professionally and personally, especially since the donations were funding real advances toward curing the disease.
When protests against Nike’s sweatshop and child-labor practices swept college campuses in 2000, Frohnmayer faced enormous pressure to sign an agreement to censure those practices. In the end, he felt he had no choice but to sign.
In retaliation, Knight not only withdrew a $30 million donation slated for stadium renovations, but also cancelled his annual donation to the FA charity. Two of Frohnmayer’s daughters had already died of FA, and Frohnmayer was terrified for the third. At that point, “Phil Knight’s money was the only thing that seemed like it might save her,” Hunt writes.
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Also......
usatodayhss.com
Oregon football and Nike founder Phil Knight are in it to win it. And that means, according to a recent report, that the Big Ten program is set to spend in pursuit of a national championship.
That’s the buzz about the Oregon football program following a recent report from Sirius XM that Nike CEO Phil Knight is all-in on funding his program’s Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) campaign. Knight, the report said, desperately wants a national championship for his alma mater and is committed to providing the financial resources necessary to get there.
During his show on SiriusXM last week, former Washington and UCLA head coach Rick Neuheisel said that Knight is willing to find whatever it takes to get Oregon a national championship. Knight is the Nike founder is 86 years old.
Whatever Knight is providing, seems to be working. In the immediate, Oregon is finding success, with the second-ranked class in the nation in the transfer portal.
And in high school recruiting, Oregon’s class of 2025 is fourth in the nation (but is the highest in the nation in average in the On3 Industry Rankings). Of their 15 commits in the 2025 class, two are ranked five stars and 12 are four-star recruits.
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Think Nike’s woke? Phil Knight’s castration of the University of Oregon might change your mind
In 2005, Nike Chairman and co-founder Phil Knight issued a shocking mandate to his alma mater, the University of Oregon. He told the university’s athletic director, Bill Moos, to fire his track and…
nypost.com
Think Nike’s woke? Phil Knight’s castration of the University of Oregon might change your mind
Oct. 20, 2018In 2005, Nike Chairman and co-founder Phil Knight issued a shocking mandate to his alma mater, the University of Oregon.
He told the university’s athletic director, Bill Moos, to fire his track and field coach Martin Smith.
At the time, Moos was the most successful athletic director in the school’s history, and he and Knight enjoyed a strong, decade-long relationship. But on this point, Moos disagreed — he refused to fire Smith.
For Knight, who is currently Forbes’ 16th richest person in the US, this was unacceptable.
He told university president Dave Frohnmayer that he wanted both Smith and Moos gone, and that he would withhold much-needed funding for the construction of the school’s new basketball arena until it was done.
Smith was forced out in late 2005; Moos left, after much pressure, in 2007. Knight then insisted that Pat Kilkenny, a university donor with no experience in college athletics, replace Moos. Again, Knight got his way.
The new book “University of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education” (Melville House), out Tuesday, exposes how Knight’s massive corporate donations to the University of Oregon’s athletic departments made him and his corporation the de facto leaders of the college.
After Oregon voters passed a measure in 1990 cutting funding for state universities by 20 percent, the publicly funded University of Oregon sought out corporate money.
Since 1994, Knight has donated almost $1 billion to the school, much of it going toward the construction or renovation of various athletic facilities.
But even as Knight’s generosity turned Oregon’s sports teams into national powerhouses, it also gave him increasing control over the school.
“He acts like these are not gifts, but investments from which he expects a certain type of loyalty,” the book’s author, Joshua Hunt, told The Post.
According to Hunt, Knight bought influence any way he could, even by personally contributing $40,000 toward Frohnmayer’s annual salary in the mid-’90s.
Knight also made an annual Christmas donation of $1 million to the Fanconi Anemia Research Fund, founded by Frohnmayer and his wife in 1989 — a charity unaffiliated with the university. Fanconi anemia (FA) is a rare and fatal disease that ran in Frohnmayer’s family and eventually killed all three of the couple’s daughters.
While the contributions were unquestionably generous, they made Frohnmayer beholden to Knight both professionally and personally, especially since the donations were funding real advances toward curing the disease.
When protests against Nike’s sweatshop and child-labor practices swept college campuses in 2000, Frohnmayer faced enormous pressure to sign an agreement to censure those practices. In the end, he felt he had no choice but to sign.
In retaliation, Knight not only withdrew a $30 million donation slated for stadium renovations, but also cancelled his annual donation to the FA charity. Two of Frohnmayer’s daughters had already died of FA, and Frohnmayer was terrified for the third. At that point, “Phil Knight’s money was the only thing that seemed like it might save her,” Hunt writes.
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Also......
Oregon football has 'unlimited' NIL backing from Nike
Phil Knight is ready to spend for Oregon football.
usatodayhss.com
Oregon football has 'unlimited' NIL backing from Nike
July 10, 2024Oregon football and Nike founder Phil Knight are in it to win it. And that means, according to a recent report, that the Big Ten program is set to spend in pursuit of a national championship.
That’s the buzz about the Oregon football program following a recent report from Sirius XM that Nike CEO Phil Knight is all-in on funding his program’s Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) campaign. Knight, the report said, desperately wants a national championship for his alma mater and is committed to providing the financial resources necessary to get there.
During his show on SiriusXM last week, former Washington and UCLA head coach Rick Neuheisel said that Knight is willing to find whatever it takes to get Oregon a national championship. Knight is the Nike founder is 86 years old.
Whatever Knight is providing, seems to be working. In the immediate, Oregon is finding success, with the second-ranked class in the nation in the transfer portal.
And in high school recruiting, Oregon’s class of 2025 is fourth in the nation (but is the highest in the nation in average in the On3 Industry Rankings). Of their 15 commits in the 2025 class, two are ranked five stars and 12 are four-star recruits.
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