Rumor

[EastStang]

Oregon's architecture isn't Georgian. Our IPF if ever built will be a lot of red brick.

[Water Pony]

Love Oregon, so don't get me wrong. And Eugene is a great college town. However, how many national championships has Oregon won (in FB) with SO MUCH money invested in it? That program has got to be one of the most heavily invested-in programs in the country and although I would kill to have the kind of success they've had over the last 20 years . . .

Investments were made and they are now in a position to win championships.

Investments? Having Phil Knight of Nike write college athletic altering checks is hardly an investment. Who needs investments when Phil, Boone Pickens, etc. of the world tip the balance of reasonable/generous contributions to stratospheric levels.

Thanks for to the Gerald Ford and Crums, we have good FB/BB game day facilities. Who on this board will be our Phil Knight?

[Comet]

Love Oregon, so don't get me wrong. And Eugene is a great college town. However, how many national championships has Oregon won (in FB) with SO MUCH money invested in it? That program has got to be one of the most heavily invested-in programs in the country and although I would kill to have the kind of success they've had over the last 20 years . . .

Investments were made and they are now in a position to win championships.

Investments? Having Phil Knight of Nike write college athletic altering checks is hardly an investment. Who needs investments when Phil, Boone Pickens, etc. of the world tip the balance of reasonable/generous contributions to stratospheric levels.

Thanks for to the Gerald Ford and Crums, we have good FB/BB game day facilities. Who on this board will be our Phil Knight?

I will as soon as my new iPhone app takes off. It's an app which writes its own killer apps.

[ojaipony]

Love Oregon, so don't get me wrong. And Eugene is a great college town. However, how many national championships has Oregon won (in FB) with SO MUCH money invested in it? That program has got to be one of the most heavily invested-in programs in the country and although I would kill to have the kind of success they've had over the last 20 years . . .

Investments were made and they are now in a position to win championships.

Yes, I know. But how many championships have they won? We've won 3 and we were only REALLY serious about FB in the late 70s/early 80s in the modern era. I'm just saying that when SMU gets serious and spends REAL money, it wins. Oregon has been spending money left and right for decades and still haven't won it. Just sayin'.

[ojaipony]

Love Oregon, so don't get me wrong. And Eugene is a great college town. However, how many national championships has Oregon won (in FB) with SO MUCH money invested in it? That program has got to be one of the most heavily invested-in programs in the country and although I would kill to have the kind of success they've had over the last 20 years . . .

Investments were made and they are now in a position to win championships.

Investments? Having Phil Knight of Nike write college athletic altering checks is hardly an investment. Who needs investments when Phil, Boone Pickens, etc. of the world tip the balance of reasonable/generous contributions to stratospheric levels.

Thanks for to the Gerald Ford and Crums, we have good FB/BB game day facilities. Who on this board will be our Phil Knight?

Yes, investments. How is him writing checks NOT an investment? He doesn't get a return on all those nike branded unis?

[Pony Boss]

Love Oregon, so don't get me wrong. And Eugene is a great college town. However, how many national championships has Oregon won (in FB) with SO MUCH money invested in it? That program has got to be one of the most heavily invested-in programs in the country and although I would kill to have the kind of success they've had over the last 20 years . . .

Investments were made and they are now in a position to win championships.

Yes, I know. But how many championships have they won? We've won 3 and we were only REALLY serious about FB in the late 70s/early 80s in the modern era. I'm just saying that when SMU gets serious and spends REAL money, it wins. Oregon has been spending money left and right for decades and still haven't won it. Just sayin'.

I hope SMU is serious this time around. I just want our football to quiet the haters in Waco, Fort Worth, Lubbock, Austin, Houston and College Station. To instill fear and nerves before their game against SMU.

[fifty]

The real question is actually: are they going to build anything or is the administration just floating pie-in-the-sky visions that are destined to be delayed indefinitely? Good bait to tell recruits (that includes chad morris).

It will happen

Note: Mark Smith video interview on the homepage said IPF scheduled to break ground late next spring. So best case of it actually being complete is probably early 2018. I wouldn't be surprised if it was 2020 though corresponding to the same time we get baseball and cyborg athletes.

[Topper]

Until recently, I didn't care much about the IPF. Today I sat behind a couple of small town North Texas HS coaches and overheard the following:

Their kids LOVE ipfs. The kids considered TCU's stadium and IPF to be very impressive. But their players are very SEC oriented (this surprised me) and not especially impressed with Charlie Strong. The only mention of SMU was that they felt that TCU baseball and track programs make them a much more attractive athletic school than SMU.