The agenda includes an Oregon winery tour with donors and an alumni event at a brewery in downtown Portland. Kelly Damphousse, the chair of the Pac-12 CEO group and president at Texas State, is traveling to Portland and then Corvallis for Saturday’s football game against Oregon State.
The Bobcats are coming to the Pacific Northwest for a Pac-12 football game. Damphousse’s Thursday-Saturday exploration into the Oregon Territory is a glaring example of college athletics’ expanding horizons.
Networking in new places.
That’s the gig now.
According to the data, Texas State’s biggest non-Texas alumni region is Southern California, followed by the San Francisco Bay Area. But there’s a solid pod of graduates living in Oregon/Washington, said Damphousse.
In other data news, the College Football Playoff selection committee released its first set of rankings on Tuesday. The Pac-12’s top team — Boise State — was slotted at No. 25. The Broncos would qualify for the 12-team field in the No. 12 spot if the playoffs started today.
The Pac-12 has been manically focused on getting a team in the playoffs.
Boise State is the carrier of those hopes.
These are precarious times.