The real question needing to be addressed centers on the Oregon community's willingness to support public education.  Directing a portion of athletic revenue to the general fund may be a nice gesture, but it doesn't even start to address the budgetary issues.  Currently we taxpayers fund about 5% of the University's operating budget...that's a very "light" contribution.  Put in the context of the taxpayers' hesitancy to support anything but more policing; higher education, like K-12 education fares very badly.  Until we're willing as taxpayers to support education (K-12, C.C. and University level), the quality of education provided will drop and the cost to the students will rise...that's simply the way things are and, given the mood in America today, I don't anticipate anything changing in the near future.

I attended college when it was actually "affordable." (1960-64, grad school '65).  Unfortunately things are very, very different for today's young men and women.  Gary Crum