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Joe Clark's avatar

Wow. There's a lot of delusion in your comment. Phil Knight has dumped a billion dollars into your football program, and how many Nattys do you have to show for it so far?

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Brad Weekly's avatar

Phil has donated about $1b to the University, not just the athletic department. About $500m for athletics, the rest to a new Law School building; and new Business School building and a cancer institute at OHSU. He's also given north of $500m to Stanford, where he earned his MBA. Stop crying and start appreciating this man's generosity. And for what it's worth OSU has some very large donors too - just not quite in Knights league.

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Orange Sunshine's avatar

Nice try. Add up the Moshofsky, Hatfied Dowlin, Autzen expansion, MKA, MM8, scoreboard, Hayward Field and the new indoor practice facility. That's well over $1B. Now add in the $30M to $40M sports subsidy every year to balance the duck books, then add in the Division Street millions and finally, add up the Nike component. It's $2B in sports alone. Just looking for transparency and honesty.

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Dave M's avatar

And, to be fair, Phil has given to OSU, rather quietly.

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Orange Sunshine's avatar

Yes, extremely quiet. So quiet, we don't know if it actually happened.

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Dan Euhus's avatar

Actually, the riches man in the world is an OSU alumni. The difference is, he is an engineer and not a sports show business man. So, his priorities don't go to athletics.

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Dwight Lilly's avatar

OUCH!

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