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Apr 6, 2021
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Motherchucker

Bio page: Motherchucker
Joined: Sep 4, 2014
Last login: Apr 23, 2024
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A look at Oregon’s new, $270M track & field complex.

Everyman

4/6/21 12:51pm

What a waste of money

WJCougar

4/6/21 12:52pm

jealous? I am

run26

4/6/21 1:05pm

Of track and field...nope. That money would be better spent on a sport...

WJCougar

4/6/21 1:34pm

When you have as much as Phil Knight, does it really matter?

4/6/21 1:10pm

Well....that is true. It's like monopoly money to him.

WJCougar

4/6/21 1:34pm

Why?

Motherchucker

4/6/21 1:20pm

not at all, it's a Track and Field mecca in North America

The Pope

4/6/21 1:26pm

Track and Field brings in very little if any revenue.

WJCougar

4/6/21 1:33pm

true of most, and probably UO's program as well. I was looking at it from a

The Pope

4/6/21 1:58pm

Not everything is a business decision

Motherchucker

4/6/21 2:13pm

Oregon's track and field program would be scary to send a daughter IMO.

Lance71

4/6/21 12:53pm

You meant Mary Cain. And her issues were on the pro side, at Nike U. Not at Oregon.

4/6/21 12:56pm

You are right.

Lance71

4/6/21 12:59pm

A lot of shady stuff has gone on at Oregon and with coaches that are there too

RUNBYU1

4/6/21 2:55pm

Cool. I want to go check it out

Cougar-Duck

4/6/21 12:53pm

Is there anything that even comes close to that currently?

Yiowa

4/6/21 12:54pm

They won't. But running is Phil Knight's passion project. He was a runner at Oregon after all. Why he co-founded Nike.

4/6/21 12:57pm

They are going to host world (every year) and olympic qualifying events (every 4

Coach's Dad

4/6/21 1:18pm

I'm guessing they'll hold the indoor national Championsh there, maybe often?

4/6/21 1:04pm

It's an outdoor facility.

Coach's Dad

4/6/21 1:19pm

That will be tough to host Indoor track then 🙂

WJCougar

4/6/21 1:35pm

Host an Olympics someday?

OU Cougar

4/6/21 1:05pm

Maximum capacity is 25,000. Most Olympic hosting stadiums seat 60,000 plus.

RH84025

4/6/21 1:10pm

Olympic trials, yes. Olympics, no way

LiveCoug

4/6/21 1:11pm

the world championships will be there next year

All-American Coug

4/6/21 8:56pm

This was the last project that my bishop growing up completed before passing

cornellcoug

4/6/21 1:14pm

Some of those masks were a little low on the nose. I am literally shaking

Ojiisan

4/6/21 1:14pm

Unless there is women's beach volley ball, I'm out

Notparticularly

4/6/21 2:11pm

My sister and her husband both got to run at the debut meet last week. The

RUNBYU1

4/6/21 2:57pm

When nike founders are worth 50+ billion this is what you get.

Stev_ie

4/6/21 3:42pm

You would think he'd put that money into uglier-than-a-mud-fence Autzen Stadium.

LEDSFW

4/6/21 3:58pm

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