Oregon Daily
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13. 1995
EUGENE, OREGON
VOLUME 96. ISSUE 97
Brooks bids farewell to Ducks
BROOKS
■ Replacement:
Announcement
expected soon on
new coach.
Page 7 A
■ Reaction: Ore
gon students give
their opinion.
Page 7 A
■ Ram fans:
St. Louis awaits
: '
Page 7A
■ Commentary:
Chns Metz
reflects on the
past and future of
Oregon football.
Page 7A
■ The future:
Brooks takes
over sluggish
Rams.
Page 8A
Football: Rich Brooks
leaves Oregon to coach
the NFL's Rams
Trevor Kearney
Omgon CXi'ty i finerakf
Weeks of sptn ulation utmtt to an
end Friday night when Oregon foe •
hall com h Rich Brooks announced
he had m < opted the head coaching
position the Los Angeles Rains had
offered him earlier in the day
The announcement came only
days after Brooks had shown some
displeasure with the Rains' inabili
ty to commit to a coach, and only
hours after Brooks had met with his
team with the intention of stavinu
pul.
'Most of this really happened
within the last three or four days
Brooks said, adding that as late ns
Friday morning he believed he
would not leave the Ducks "Wo
had tx-en talking about on offer, hut
nothing was over firmly settled.
When 1 talked to my team {Fridavl
morning, I did not believe ! was
going to leave."
But the Hams' four-year, multi
million dollar offer and the chance
to return to the NFI. were ultimate
ly too much to pass up, as Brooks
ended his 18-vear Oregon career
with a 91-108-4 record.
There ts an abundance of things
that are going to lie difficult for mo
to leave behind — the young men
that I coach first and foremost,"
Brooks said "1 am going to have a
lot of mixed emotions in the next
couple of days
"1 am generally excited about the
opportunity to coach the Hams I
had obviously been interested
enough to go to the interview and
then the second one. And obvious
ly they gave rue an opportunity 1
couldn't refuse."
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QAMV QRA5M *****&
Rich Brooks, Oregon s head coach for the past 18 years, stepped down on Frk
day to accept a job as the head coach of the Los Angelas Rams Brooks' final
game was a loss In the 1995 Rose Bowl
COACHING DEAL
■ Brooks accepted a tour-year
extract which report<*dty is worth
about $2 5 million
■ Brooks currently earns about
$200,000 per year as Oregon's head
coach
■ Brooks. 91 109-1 since becoming
Oregon's coach in 19//. succeeds
Chuck Kno*. who wan fired last
month with a year remaining on hi*,
lour-year contract
■ The Rams, who are e*pe< tod to
move to St Louis, were 4 12 last
•.ivison and 0-6 in the NFC West
division.
AT OREGON
■ This fa Bioc* • ) the Ducks
to their hist Rose Bow! appearance
in 3/ yews
■ Brooks -ft frj ts 67 60 . ,.-r the
fast 11 seasons ami he's quid**) the
Ducks to four bowl games since
1989
■ Brooks won three national t t. >•
of the year awards this season after
Oregon lost two of its first three
games, then went on to tirvuh 9 4
and w><» it*, first outright c nference
title ever
HISTORY
■ Brooks worked as the Rams'
special teams and fundamentals
coach in 1971 and 197? under
Tommy Prothro after coaching the
linebackers at UCLA in 1970,
■ After a year at Ns alma mater.
Oregon State, he worked with defen
sive backs and special foams with
the San Francisco 49ms in 1975 and
linebackers again at UCLA in 1976
before becoming head coach at
Oregon
■ GOOD MORNING
► A powerful winter storm
descended Sunday on the Pacif
ic Northwest with snow and frigid
temperatures
Winter storm warnings were in
effect for parts of Washington,
Oregon and Idaho as a deepen
ing tow pressure system brought
harsh conditions
Snow started falling early in
Washington state By late morn
ing, 6 inches had fallen at Pouls
bo, with 4 inches at Bangor
Nme-mch snow drifts were
reported in Port Orchard, Wash ,
and visibility m Tacoma was
restricted to a half mile
The wind chill in Portland fell
to minus one and 1 inch of snow
was on the ground, with wind
gustmg to 37 mph Heavy ram
was reported in Tillamook, Ore
and elsewhere along the coast.
Up to 10 inches of snow was
forecast m the mountains of
Washington and Oregon.
be mine
- SKiJ
Showing
\our love
t
Valentino s Day comas only
once a year, and so doss the
EmwakTi heart* filled
supplement 1B.
OSSHE will spotlight research
Campaign: State? board
will promote University
research through ads
Amy Col umbo
OreQon fmeuM
I ho Oregon Suiw Syulwn of
ffigher ('duration has proposed
utilizing television ads and radio
commercials as a means of con
necting University research to
Oregonians.
The state board is considering
a public information plan to mar
ket the work of researchers as a
moans of gaining status The plan
could be implemented as early as
March.
The University's mission is to
combine undergraduate educa
tion and research. University
administrators take it very seri
ously.
“As a research University, all
or nearly all of our faculty mem
bers are actively engaged in
research,” said Steadman
U|tham, vii «> provost for research
and graduate education.
"We want to have faculty that
are recognized in their fields,"
Uphani s.nii "It's a very real part
of being n college professor
today"
Research is an integral com
ponent of higher education and
OSSHK may tiave found a new
way to spotlight it OSSHK would
like taxpayers to see visible
results from their investments in
higher education
During the 19<>3-»4 year. Uni
versity professors cashed in a
total of S43.08 million for
research purposes. They received
grants from the federal govern
ment. private foundations, cor
f(orations, state support and a
united amount of seed money
from the University.
This monetary figure is down
s total of S3 million from the pro
vious year According to a 1993
annual report from the Of fie »
of Research and Sponsored Pro
grams. the reasons fur tl(i* mon
etary decline i an la* attributed to
flat or reduced budgets from fed
eral agencies and increased com
petition for external funding
Federal funding — which con
stitute* 7H percent of all l hiivur
sity monies designated for
research purposes — took the
largest dive from $37.9 million
in 1992-93 to $33.6 million in
1993-94
State support, however,
increased from $767,673 in 1992
93 to $2,232,849 in 1993-94
Examples of projects funded by
the state involve field work on
archaeological sites, design and
testing of economic development
activities from job training to
tourism and the research of earth
quakes, forests, rivers and the
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