You Stay Classy, Scott Woodward: UW AD Calls Oregon 'An Embarrassment'

As I always say Husky arrogance has no bounds! Woodward is a real class act, I’m glad I don’t live over in Seattle. Whenever I’m over there I feel like I’m in enemy territory.But with all seriousness, This kind of pettiness and childish behavior shouldn’t be tolerated. Your a representative of your university and everything you say or do is under a microscope!

… but it is clear that he was not calling the Univ of Oregon an embarrassment – he was referring to the state funding of education as the embarrassment. I don’t think Oregon students or faculty would disagree. Woodward’s point of contention is that he would like to see more private donations to boost UW’s facilities similar to how Oregon has benefited from Knight. Context is kind of important here.

I thought it sounded bad when I read it, then I listened to it and it was even worse. Stay Classy Montelake!

By the way Scotty, Nike isn’t the only reason Oregon is where it is at. It is also their great fans base. Bill Moos used his “build the pyramid” system to build a tremendous donor base there. I couldn’t find it in the archives, but I know Nuss or Brian wrote a story about how much UO Alumni annually donated to athletics before Moos and how much they do now. It is dramatically different. I will admit there is no doubt Uncle Knight’s giving has had an impact, but the rest of the donors shouldn’t be over looked because they have done a tremendous job.

Whether Woodward meant it that way or it was taken out of context, why would he go down that road anyways? He didn’t really answer Softy’s question, he took in a different direction than he needed to. It was a question about athletics, not academics and the economy. He was asking about facilities, exposure and competitiveness. “It’s not really where we want to be” Is he crazy? I wouldn’t mind being where their football program is, freakin ESPN Gameday has covered the multiple times in the last couple years. Throwing the whole Phil Knight comment out there was bad. WSU has the smallest athletic budget in the Pac10 and we don’t complain about Knight, we know we got our own program to worry about building. That sounds like the kid (who is also pretty wealthy) in the neighborhood who is complaining and making excuses because another kid’s parents are rich and it isn’t fair. Rise above it.

… Woodward’s comments come off as arrogant. I suppose I can see what he was getting at, but he chose the wrong way to express himself. Crapping on the University of Oregon on the weekend that UW plays them isn’t good form. In fact, someone in his position shouldn’t be crapping on anyone publicly.

This type of incident is painful for UW fans and just plain good times for WSU fans. I don’t think anyone in this debate so far can claim objectivity.

Check it out at the end of the post.

You can listen to the clip here.

Just because I dislike Oregon and their athletic program so much more than UW. And find that Oregon athletics and their fanbase more arrogant and egotistical than UW would even dream of being. I actually thought this comment was remarkably funny, it just looks bad that it is coming from the Washington AD. It would be more acceptable if it was trash talk from a player. But he is representing that University. yet something tells me the only criticism that comment will get is from annoyed duck fans because of the mutual hate between the 2 schools.

is a schmuck.

Like other losers in government institutions, Mr Soft Wood finds it easier to bitch about the competition rather than focusing on his responsibilities (and failures).

Want embarrassment?

When Nate Costa went down with another knee injury, ending a great man’s career at Oregon during that drubbing of the Mutts, a UW coach turned and looked at the Oregon crowd and did the ‘crying motion’ with both hands then offered a middle finger.

That’s embarrassing. Softwood should focus on that for a few minutes, instead of wondering about budgets at a school that doesn’t pay him to wonder about budgets.

And… btw, softwood… UW must be ranked at least in the top 5 in the country for their academic performance. Considering how pathetically poor the teams are, and the infrastructure is, at UW. Virtually every dollar and every bit of energy must be going to academics.

So … where does your school rate, eh softwood??

All of you guys have tried so hard to educate Gekko Mojo that I think his fingers are in his ears and he is just saying lalalalalala.
I will give one attempt to try and “learn” he and his buddies who may just be trolling.
Let’s try some facts:
Oregon is an AAU school. One of only 61 in the US.
The UO Athletic Department is self funded. This is a moving target every year – but usually less than 30 schools get to make that claim.
Nike (Phil Knight is the Chairman) signed a contract in 2008 to give nearly $40M over 10 years to the University of Washington.
We can argue about how stupid, misinformed, arrogant, envious, or even bitter Scotty’s statements were; but I think even the most tainted Husky can admit the statements were unprofessional.
My apologies to Coug Nation for infiltrating your space. I am just trying to help.
I promise to get out of the way now.

when one considers that the success of our Athletic programs (specifically football) have increased enrollment at Oregon dramatically, particularly from students out of our State. Out-of-State tuition is a HUGE source of funding for all things academic. This point is lost on both him and Rachel Bachman.

While I may or may not agree that the school is an embarrassment, this court is an embarrassment on the level of Eastern’s red turf. Horrible.

because he’s told Woodward to apologize to UO.

Seattle Times: Pres tells Woodward to apologize