Post by wrestlingpublicist on Aug 15, 2008 21:00:33 GMT -5
Groundbreaking for the new baseball field in the Autzen parking lot occurred today.
Here's the official news release:
www.goducks.com//ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=500&ATCLID=1555194
Dave Frohnmayer announced that the new stadium will be named after Pat Kilkenny, who gave $4 milion toward the estimated $20 million price tag.
Several points:
1. Wrestling wasn't dropped because Title IX dictated a choice between our sport and baseball. Neal Zoumboulkos said that in the spring and the Kilkenny-Baumgartner team testified to that extent in Salem in July.
2. Kilkenny's motto: "We can't be all things to all people," said repeatedly to the news media, repeated in court in July, and in a July 25 legal brief from the state's attorneys, doesn't mean there's no money for wrestling. Obviously, a $4 million personal gift, part of $11 million raised toward a $20 million baseball stadium -- not to mention all of the other gifts directed toward the U of O recently -- does not portend economic distress for the athletic department.
3. There is enough money to save wrestling, beginning with the $3 million in cash and pledges Save Oregon Wrestling has raised.
4. Oregon is dropping wrestling because Oregon's athletic administrators don't want wrestling. It's really that simple.
Here's the official news release:
www.goducks.com//ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=500&ATCLID=1555194
Dave Frohnmayer announced that the new stadium will be named after Pat Kilkenny, who gave $4 milion toward the estimated $20 million price tag.
Several points:
1. Wrestling wasn't dropped because Title IX dictated a choice between our sport and baseball. Neal Zoumboulkos said that in the spring and the Kilkenny-Baumgartner team testified to that extent in Salem in July.
2. Kilkenny's motto: "We can't be all things to all people," said repeatedly to the news media, repeated in court in July, and in a July 25 legal brief from the state's attorneys, doesn't mean there's no money for wrestling. Obviously, a $4 million personal gift, part of $11 million raised toward a $20 million baseball stadium -- not to mention all of the other gifts directed toward the U of O recently -- does not portend economic distress for the athletic department.
3. There is enough money to save wrestling, beginning with the $3 million in cash and pledges Save Oregon Wrestling has raised.
4. Oregon is dropping wrestling because Oregon's athletic administrators don't want wrestling. It's really that simple.