We need to step up our fundraising game...


http://oregon.247sports.com/Bolt/Uncle-Phil-Making-Billion-Dollar-Donation-32113135

Phil flips the script, decides education is important and thats why he's donating $4 billion to washington state!

Erecting monuments or buildings to oneself does not a make a university ...
and how did he get all that money because I know of only one (1) person who has ever bought a pair of overpriced Nike shoes.

SonOfCalVa;842383429 said:

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Erecting monuments or buildings to oneself does not a make a university ...
and how did he get all that money because I know of only one (1) person who has ever bought a pair of overpriced Nike shoes.

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Are you seriously questioning the success or popularity of Nike as a shoe company by referencing your personal, anecdotal experiences?

StillNoStanfurdium;842383453 said:

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Are you seriously questioning the success or popularity of Nike as a shoe company by referencing your personal, anecdotal experiences?

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Perhaps he's admitting that he has never met one of those types of people who predominantly play football and basketball for Cal?

SonOfCalVa;842383429 said:

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Erecting monuments or buildings to oneself does not a make a university ... and how did he get all that money because I know of only one (1) person who has ever bought a pair of overpriced Nike shoes.

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Just delete yourself because that is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard

Talking about people who spent their own money to buy Nike products ... or, rather, didn't buy.
BUY, not given. Raise yer haind, ifn yew caint keep up.

Sorry to disturb your luv for UncaPhil

SonOfCalVa;842383429 said:

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Erecting monuments or buildings to oneself does not a make a university ...
and how did he get all that money because I know of only one (1) person who has ever bought a pair of overpriced Nike shoes.

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And all those people you have seen wearing them, how did you think they got them?

not a dime for ebola hmm k

SonOfCalVa;842383463 said:

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Talking about people who spent their own money to buy Nike products ... or, rather, didn't buy.BUY, not given. Raise yer haind, ifn yew caint keep up.Sorry to disturb your luv for UncaPhil

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Even pro athletes buy some of their Nike shoes unless their name is Michael Jordan, Kobe or Lebron and then even before they became pro they bought Nike shoes

SonOfCalVa;842383429 said:

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Erecting monuments or buildings to oneself does not a make a university ...
and how did he get all that money because I know of only one (1) person who has ever bought a pair of overpriced Nike shoes.

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Was that one person Patrick Christopher?

Many of us have made a lot of money betting on Knight and his company. He is truly a marketing genius. Thanks for everything, Phil!

$1 billion? So $500 million to expand the football stadium to 80k, the rest goes towards building an athletes only campus, so that the football and basketball players don't have to interact with the regular students.

SonOfCalVa;842383463 said:

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Talking about people who spent their own money to buy Nike products ... or, rather, didn't buy.
BUY, not given. Raise yer haind, ifn yew caint keep up.

Sorry to disturb your luv for UncaPhil

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Just a smattering of people bought Nikes in 2013....LOL

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Strong demand for NIKE, Inc brands drove Q4 revenue to $6.7 billion, up 7 percent, or 9 percent on a currency neutral basis. Fiscal 2013 revenues from continuing operations were $25.3 billion, up 8 percent, or 11 percent excluding the impact of changes in foreign currency.

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Cal_Fan2;842383485 said:

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Just a smattering of people bought Nikes in 2013....LOL

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Not one penny from our family. We're doing our part!

FYI Nike also owns Converse and Hurley and until recently, Cole Haan and Umbro

NYCGOBEARS;842383500 said:

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Not one penny from our family. We're doing our part!

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Amazing cast of Nike-philes on BI have emerged ... no longer silent supporters of UncaPhil's woregon boyz. :newnana:

They'll be a bit conflicted in a few weeks, wearing their Nikes, as UncaPhil's boyz invade Santa Clara. :p

tommie317;842383513 said:

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FYI Nike also owns Converse and Hurley and until recently, Cole Haan and Umbro

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really, oh wow, cool, :woohoo

SonOfCalVa;842383557 said:

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really, oh wow, cool, :woohoo

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At the end of they day, we got to stop stop envying other schools for their donations and have our own big donors step up. All this trash talking about others is petty. We are ranked in the top ten in number of billionaires and Oregon is not. Everyone got to stop going hysterical when other schools get donations by you know we wish we got them tool

tommie317;842383563 said:

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At the end of they day, we got to stop stop envying other schools for their donations and have our own big donors step up. All this trash talking about others is petty. We are ranked in the top ten in number of billionaires and Oregon is not. Everyone got to stop going hysterical when other schools get donations by you know we wish we got them tool

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What "trash talk" are you talking about?
If not expressing true love for UncaPhil and his Nike stuff on Bear Insider strikes you as "trash talk", you have work to do with your head.

SonOfCalVa;842383566 said:

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What "trash talk" are you talking about? If not expressing true love for UncaPhil and his Nike stuff on Bear Insider strikes you as "trash talk", you have work to do with your head.

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Like your reasoning that you don't know how Phil made his money is rationale thinking from a sane person?

tommie317;842383575 said:

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Like your reasoning that you don't know how Phil made his money is rationale thinking from a sane person?

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UncaPhil, according to confirmed reports, made and makes his money through SWEAT, but not his own. :p
I'm sure UncaPhil feels cosmic joy as he feels your love for him and his enterprises.
Kinda doubt the kids in those sweatshops feel the same love.

SonOfCalVa;842383578 said:

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UncaPhil, according to confirmed reports, made and makes his money through SWEAT, but not his own. :pI'm sure UncaPhil feels cosmic joy as he feels your love for him and his enterprises.Kinda doubt the kids in those sweatshops feel the same love.

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You mean the same uniforms that our cal Bears wear that you pay to see?

Yeh, but our bazillionaires probably don't give a rats ao about sports.

71Bear;842383475 said:

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Many of us have made a lot of money betting on Knight and his company. He is truly a marketing genius. Thanks for everything, Phil!

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Thanks to my stockbroker uncle who got me interested in the market by starting me with investments in products I used as a kid (nike, pepsi, mc donalds) I was able to put down a fat down payment on my first home when I got married. Uncle Phil & Ronald McDonald are two of my best financial friends.

As for Nike shoes themselves, I love them! I got my first pair of Nike's in 1975 and have been very loyal for almost 40 years!

If he gives the money to academics instead of to athletics, I will be impressed. UO academics stills needs all the help it can get.

well nike must donate $1B in uniforms to the ducks too.
today's uniforms....

SonOfCalVa;842383429 said:

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Erecting monuments or buildings to oneself does not a make a university ...

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Didn't you ever hear of the "Hearst family."
Buildings, theaters, even a street.
They as much as everything "made" Cal.
(I don't know if "making Cal" makes up for starting their own war to sell more newspapers?)

CaliforniaGoldenBear;842385444 said:

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Didn't you ever hear of the "Hearst family."
Buildings, theaters, even a street.
They as much as everything "made" Cal.
(I don't know if "making Cal" makes up for starting their own war to sell more newspapers?)

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Beating up little kids selling other newspapers, throwing them and their papers into the gutters, was a great tactic of Hearst.

These wealthy "benefactors" remind me of Mrs. Winchester ... keep building to wipe out the guilt, ward off the evil spirits.