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Old Sun Jan 16, 2011, 06:24pm
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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Originally Posted by Snaqwells View Post
Doing it in honor of someone is different than doing it in response to a $100 mm donation. $100 mm buys you a lot more than just the name; and I'm not sure Oregon does anything without Phill Knight's permission. You get a sugar daddy that prolific, you tend to run things by him at the very least.

Maybe it was their idea and he just signed off on it, but I'd bet he had a lot of input.
I did not say he had no input. I said it might not have been his idea or vision for the court.

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