“It’s got all the virtues that anybody who enjoys higher education really admires,” Neuheisel said. “It’s a top-flight
academic institution, and a great place to be a student athlete.”
Neuheisel, of course, is the former Husky coach who had to leave the UW because of scandals associated with his tactics for building a pro level collegiate enterprise at Husky Stadium. He is now doing that same job in Colorado and UC has just joined an expanded PAC 10 (soon to be PAC 12-16?).
Does anyone here worry that the Nike scandals at University of Oregon, our own effort to build a new stadium amidst the Recession, our Provost serving on the Nike board, and Emmert’s departure for the NCAA … might be a pattern?
In the meantime ..a UW committee is recommending that the UW end its apparel deal with … NIKE.
Bread and Circuses?
The University of Texas system regents will meet at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Austin for “discussion and appropriate action regarding athletic conference membership,” according to a press release.
The regents are expected to announce UT’s plans for membership in a different conference, likely the Pacific 10 along with Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Colorado in forming a south division with current Pac-10 members Arizona and Arizona State
I believe Neuheisel (fondly called “Neuweisel” by many) is the Football coach at UCLA. Next fall will be his third season at UCLA.
But Neuheisel is irrelevant to the UW problem. In fact, one of the good things the UW administration did was to “allow him to leave.
Ed
I think Ed is right, but I also think Neuheisel IS very much part of the problem. The creation of the PAC 16 is clearly a step forward in defining the UW’s role as a football power. That step ought not to be taken without consideration for the costs to the UW ,, both in the real use of state funds to support pro sports and the effect on the UW as place that wnats to attract top students.