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Unfortunately for OSU, no mega donors means that college athletics are going to get harder and harder. Without Phil Knight, we'd likely be in a similar situation.

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“The scariest thing that is going on ...— when you’re a solid coach or a goodcoach, not even a great coach, there’s the potential of people shopping you to another school long before the season ends,”

unpaid player

told me.

Sounds absolutely stupid as hell when you replace coach/player.

DuckMastaFunk wrote:Unfortunately for OSU, no mega donors means that college athletics are going to get harder and harder. Without Phil Knight, we'd likely be in a similar situation.

It's one thing to have mega donors for sure, but there is also the aspect of knowing how to cultivate your fan base and tap into ALL your alums and supporters. OS is NOT good at that. Oregon happens to be very good at that.

lmduck wrote:

DuckMastaFunk wrote:Unfortunately for OSU, no mega donors means that college athletics are going to get harder and harder. Without Phil Knight, we'd likely be in a similar situation.

It's one thing to have mega donors for sure, but there is also the aspect of knowing how to cultivate your fan base and tap into ALL your alums and supporters. OS is NOT good at that. Oregon happens to be very good at that.

There are plenty of OS fans with deep pockets... they just choose to keep their fists tightly closed.

The beavs have real disadvantages but they compound them by embracing them. Being the little guy is a part of their identity and their Athletic Department has a loser’s culture when it comes to football and basketball.

Being the poor little school north of the big bad ducks is cute, and garners lots of sympathy from media and fans, but it also keeps them perpetually stuck right where they’re at.

woundedknees wrote:

lmduck wrote:

DuckMastaFunk wrote:Unfortunately for OSU, no mega donors means that college athletics are going to get harder and harder. Without Phil Knight, we'd likely be in a similar situation.

It's one thing to have mega donors for sure, but there is also the aspect of knowing how to cultivate your fan base and tap into ALL your alums and supporters. OS is NOT good at that. Oregon happens to be very good at that.

There are plenty of OS fans with deep pockets... they just choose to keep their fists tightly closed.

Really? Who? Not trying to challenge you - just curious as I honestly have no idea who they are.

DuckMastaFunk wrote:

woundedknees wrote:

lmduck wrote:

DuckMastaFunk wrote:Unfortunately for OSU, no mega donors means that college athletics are going to get harder and harder. Without Phil Knight, we'd likely be in a similar situation.

It's one thing to have mega donors for sure, but there is also the aspect of knowing how to cultivate your fan base and tap into ALL your alums and supporters. OS is NOT good at that. Oregon happens to be very good at that.

There are plenty of OS fans with deep pockets... they just choose to keep their fists tightly closed.

Really? Who? Not trying to challenge you - just curious as I honestly have no idea who they are.

Quite a few Oregonian OSU undergrad engineering alums who went on to Stanford for their postgrad EE or Comp sci degree and are highly successful in Silicon Valley. The founder of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, being one of them. Fortunately he's not a fanatic donor to their sport programs.

alxtw wrote:

DuckMastaFunk wrote:

woundedknees wrote:

lmduck wrote:

DuckMastaFunk wrote:Unfortunately for OSU, no mega donors means that college athletics are going to get harder and harder. Without Phil Knight, we'd likely be in a similar situation.

It's one thing to have mega donors for sure, but there is also the aspect of knowing how to cultivate your fan base and tap into ALL your alums and supporters. OS is NOT good at that. Oregon happens to be very good at that.

There are plenty of OS fans with deep pockets... they just choose to keep their fists tightly closed.

Really? Who? Not trying to challenge you - just curious as I honestly have no idea who they are.

Quite a few Oregonian OSU undergrad engineering alums who went on to Stanford for their postgrad EE or Comp sci degree and are highly successful in Silicon Valley. The founder of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, being one of them. Fortunately he's not a fanatic donor to their sport programs.

This is correct. The founder of Nvidia did just donate $50 million to the academic side of the house.


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One of the co-owners of the Milwaukee Bucks and Aston Villa FC of the Premier League, Wes Edens, is an OSU grad who's worth around $4 billion. The CEO of Panda Express, Peggy Cherng, is worth around $3 billion. Austen Cargill II, heir to the Cargill food corporation, got his doctorate from OSU but he's more of a University of Minnesota donor since he did his undergrad and masters there. The CEO of Experian, Don Robert, has spoken at and donated to the school but nothing to athletics. The AD has to find a way to tap into those types.