badger
4/5/2008, 08:10 PM
We all know about T. Boone Pickens:
http://anatomyu.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/boonepickens.jpg
The "T" stands for Thomas, not "TIME cover! He was on the TIME cover!"
http://images.usatoday.com/sports/college/_photos/2006-08-15-pickens-in.jpg
He is a die-hard OSU fan and alum, and as of lately...
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/1029/hargiskt4.jpg
Is the die-hard donor and owner of OSU.
http://www.evworld.com/images/boone_pickens.jpg
But who, other than Pickens, has bought and paid for a university and has complete control over it, especially athletics? Well, I am going to tell you:
http://www.ciadvertising.org/SA/spring_03/382J/aclaire/Website%202%20content/website2%20pics/knight.jpg
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Phil Knight, co-founder and CEO of Nike.
http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper859/stills/lr2zn8v0.jpg
The university Knight already bought and paid for years ago is his beloved University of Oregon, with emphasis on Oregon Duck athletics.
http://seattleduck.com/wp-content/photos/OregonDuckfootballunisannounced.again_B0A7/oregon22.jpg
Everything that has been Nike-ized has been Nike-ized at Oregon first...
http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2007/0320/ncb_a_porter_195.jpg
Like those weird basketball uni's everyone's wearing this year that have no color above the chest, that look identical to all other Nike uniforms, except in color and the name on the front.
http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper859/stills/w7ul7c52.jpg
About the only thing Knight hasn't tried to change at Oregon is the traditional "Donald" Duck mascot, which came long before his time in a handshake agreement with Disney...
http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper859/stills/3f9939a83c7df-26-1.jpg
Oh, wait, there was "Mandrake" or "Robo Duck" or whatever the heck they called him before a fast dumping (which, btw, should have happened to the horse pigs)
http://www.sneakerfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/lebron-2-oregon-pe.jpg
How else do you explain a vast Nike takeover of the Oregon athletics and entire atmosphere...
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3281/ajmportlandloserfv4.jpg
In a state full of tree huggers and hippies that are naturally very anti-corporation, especially against the likes of sweatshop labor companies like Nike?
http://www.uoregon.edu/02_04/images/photos04/large/march_band.jpg
How else do you explain quick changes in every aspect of a university, from the marching band in Nike...
http://graphics.fansonly.com/photos/schools/okla/sports/c-xc/auto_headshot/1116656.jpeg
To a swift boot to former track coach Martin Smith (now at Oklahoma), when Phil threatened to pull running funding if Smith remained as coach?
http://media.kval.com/images/alumni_marching_band.JPG
When we played Oregon in the Holiday Bowl, a band member told me a frightening tale - during the switch to band Nike-ization, the band director was forced out. Half the band quit on his behalf, leaving only freshmen and members on scholarship pretty much. Thus, the Oregon band was half its usual size at the bowl that year. He said how much he hated the uniforms, but that they got a lot of free Nike stuff.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/giving/images/Pickens-2.jpg
Today, OSU, you have Pickens money. You are starting to lose control of your university. What is next for OSU? Perhaps you won't have weird Nike uniforms, but then again, Pickens is an oil man. What happens when all other campuses move forward in energy, and Pickens demands you stay with his ideas and companies?
http://espn.go.com/media/ncf/2006/0109/photo/g_osu_275.jpg
Whatever may happen, we'll laugh at how backwards you will have become. Look at Oregon and what they've become. So ugly uniforms, they have. So bright in color, they are. Foreshadow, Pokes. Foreshadow.
http://anatomyu.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/boonepickens.jpg
The "T" stands for Thomas, not "TIME cover! He was on the TIME cover!"
http://images.usatoday.com/sports/college/_photos/2006-08-15-pickens-in.jpg
He is a die-hard OSU fan and alum, and as of lately...
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/1029/hargiskt4.jpg
Is the die-hard donor and owner of OSU.
http://www.evworld.com/images/boone_pickens.jpg
But who, other than Pickens, has bought and paid for a university and has complete control over it, especially athletics? Well, I am going to tell you:
http://www.ciadvertising.org/SA/spring_03/382J/aclaire/Website%202%20content/website2%20pics/knight.jpg
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Phil Knight, co-founder and CEO of Nike.
http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper859/stills/lr2zn8v0.jpg
The university Knight already bought and paid for years ago is his beloved University of Oregon, with emphasis on Oregon Duck athletics.
http://seattleduck.com/wp-content/photos/OregonDuckfootballunisannounced.again_B0A7/oregon22.jpg
Everything that has been Nike-ized has been Nike-ized at Oregon first...
http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2007/0320/ncb_a_porter_195.jpg
Like those weird basketball uni's everyone's wearing this year that have no color above the chest, that look identical to all other Nike uniforms, except in color and the name on the front.
http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper859/stills/w7ul7c52.jpg
About the only thing Knight hasn't tried to change at Oregon is the traditional "Donald" Duck mascot, which came long before his time in a handshake agreement with Disney...
http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper859/stills/3f9939a83c7df-26-1.jpg
Oh, wait, there was "Mandrake" or "Robo Duck" or whatever the heck they called him before a fast dumping (which, btw, should have happened to the horse pigs)
http://www.sneakerfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/lebron-2-oregon-pe.jpg
How else do you explain a vast Nike takeover of the Oregon athletics and entire atmosphere...
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3281/ajmportlandloserfv4.jpg
In a state full of tree huggers and hippies that are naturally very anti-corporation, especially against the likes of sweatshop labor companies like Nike?
http://www.uoregon.edu/02_04/images/photos04/large/march_band.jpg
How else do you explain quick changes in every aspect of a university, from the marching band in Nike...
http://graphics.fansonly.com/photos/schools/okla/sports/c-xc/auto_headshot/1116656.jpeg
To a swift boot to former track coach Martin Smith (now at Oklahoma), when Phil threatened to pull running funding if Smith remained as coach?
http://media.kval.com/images/alumni_marching_band.JPG
When we played Oregon in the Holiday Bowl, a band member told me a frightening tale - during the switch to band Nike-ization, the band director was forced out. Half the band quit on his behalf, leaving only freshmen and members on scholarship pretty much. Thus, the Oregon band was half its usual size at the bowl that year. He said how much he hated the uniforms, but that they got a lot of free Nike stuff.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/giving/images/Pickens-2.jpg
Today, OSU, you have Pickens money. You are starting to lose control of your university. What is next for OSU? Perhaps you won't have weird Nike uniforms, but then again, Pickens is an oil man. What happens when all other campuses move forward in energy, and Pickens demands you stay with his ideas and companies?
http://espn.go.com/media/ncf/2006/0109/photo/g_osu_275.jpg
Whatever may happen, we'll laugh at how backwards you will have become. Look at Oregon and what they've become. So ugly uniforms, they have. So bright in color, they are. Foreshadow, Pokes. Foreshadow.