For just the second time since the end of the season, Jody Runge met with Oregon Athletic Director Bill Moos Monday to reportedly discuss some of the controversies surrounding the women’s basketball program.
“We don’t have any details about the meeting, we only know that they met,” University spokeswoman Pauline Austin said.
Eight unidentified players met with Moos March 4 to request that the women’s basketball coach be fired. Moos responded on March 27 by hiring Bond, Schoeneck & King, a Kansas City-based law firm with a reputation for assisting troubled athletic departments, to compile an “objective analysis” about Runge’s program.
The three-member team of investigators completed its interviews of more than 80 individuals about three weeks ago.
Austin said the firm’s report could likely be finished and handed in to Melinda Grier, the University’s general counsel, by the end of the week. Once Grier receives the report, she will give it to Moos, who will then decide Runge’s future with the program.
“We anticipate something happening this week,” Austin said. “But that is only speculative.”
Runge and Moos could not be reached for comment.
Additionally, at a meeting last week, the Oregon Board of Investigators reportedly discussed a complaint that Bond, Schoeneck & King is conducting its review illegally. The five-person board could not reach a decision on the complaint and will wait until a June 1 meeting before making a decision, a board spokesman said Tuesday.
Austin said the board has not contacted the University about the complaint.
“The Oregon Board of Investigators has not been in touch with us, but we will cooperate if they call,” Austin said.
Asked if the University was also speaking on behalf of Bond, Schoeneck & King, Austin said, “only in terms of the report.”