“Phil Knight Is Bankrolling That Whole Thing” | The $34.8B Nike Founder Is Sparing No Expense To Help Alma Mater Oregon Compete For National Championship 

The Oregon Ducks have been the best team in all of college football this season. Led by third-year head coach Dan Lanning, the Ducks (13-0) won the Big Ten Championship and are the No. 1 seed in the first 12-team College Football Playoffs. As they prepare to face the No. 8 seed Ohio State Buckeyes, whom they beat 32-31 in their previous matchup this season, the focus has shifted as to how the Ducks have become a perennial contender in the NIL era. RELATED: Jaden Rashada Is Not Playing Amateur About His NIL Money | Bidding Wars Are Real In College Football Led by its most famous alumnus in Nike founder Phil Knight, the Ducks have the resources to compete with any program as pertains to adding top-tier talent. In many ways the program has an open checkbook, in large part to its Division Street NIL collective, which has contributed greatly to the recruiting success under Lanning. In fact it’s a pretty straightforward answer as to how the Ducks do business in this highly competitive NIL era.& Former #Nike CEO Phil Knight is supplying #Oregon with unlimited NIL resources, per @espn. Knight, 86, “desperately” wants to see a championship at...