I just return from my cousin’s funeral at the USC Newman Center. My cousin’s brother, along with his Washington student daughter, picked me up at my hotel and drove me to the church.
Along the way my cousin, who has a PhD in economics from Stanford but cheers for his beloved undergraduate university, USC, mentioned that his daughter was in mourning over losing DeBoer. She commented sweetly that if they were a Nike school like Oregon maybe Nike would have paid for their coach to stay like Nike did for Lanning.
My cousin then said with great authority “ yeah Uncle Phil had to really get out the check book in order to keep Lanning.”
I have been hearing people make this statement repeatedly. I don't care if Phil did “got out the check book”, but I have to wonder where these people are getting their info. I’m being a little bit sarcastic, but how can a well educated PhD from Stanford spew information that he doesn’t really have? Am I missing something? Was there a breaking story of Phil contacting the Athletic Department and offering a big bonus that kept Dan Lanning from going to Alabama , or is it that football fans are basically so tribal that their “knowledge” is based upon nothing but false assumptions?
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