Jay, here.
Bill Harbaugh wants a piece of the Duck. And it looks like he’s putting up a little bit more of a fight than the Houston Cougar.
Yesterday, we linked to a column by Steve Duin in The Oregonian (UO Professor: Frohnmayer Needs To Build The Damn Arena, Then Retire) detailing the University of Oregon Behavioral and Experimental Economics Professor’s challenges against the administration’s supposed “culture of secrecy” in regards to the plans for the new basketball arena.
I’m not even going to attempt to explain, or even summarize, all of the issues involved in this drama worthy of the WWE. And I’m not trying to take sides here, either. But I will tell you this. While neither side looks like the good guy, one side is looking is like a bad guy. I’ll let you be the judge of that in this grudge match.
But as a follow-up to his column, Duin posted this on his blog yesterday:
“UO is only able to show such disdain for public records law because Attorney General Hardy Myers and the Department of Justice let them get away with it.”
Well, looks like that rang the ringside bell because Oregon’s very own version of Judge Mills Lane (Attorney General “I Ain’t Giving You A Laurel or A Hardy Handshake” Myers) wants a piece of this RAW WAR, too.
According to the Oregon Daily Emerald, Harbaugh received a letter from the State of Oregon’s Department of Justice about an hour after Duin posted his blog entry. Now the State is looking into Harbaugh’s allegations against the University, specifically the University of Oregon’s General Counsel Melinda Grier.
What does this all mean?
Much like a WWE wrestling match, I think the outcome has already been determined. None of this is going to stop the new basketball arena from being built.
But while the WWE wrestling matches are “fake” in outcome, the action is very much real (Right, Sea Bass?). And somebody, if not everybody, is going to get bloody.
They say blood is thicker than water. I just wish that the Donald Duck family looked more like a Disney family and less like the Vince McMahon family.