Posted by CHS on 10/30/2009, 11:25 am, in reply to "Re: Mark O'Meara mentions Long Beach State on sports radio"
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Naming Mark the Outstanding CBA Graduate is small potatoes compared to some of the shenanigans that have happened in the CBA during the past several years. My favorite was the dean who lived in Fresno and was in LB only about 1/2-time.
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: First screw up (I have not confirmed this with
: Mark, but heard it, and it sounds about
: right).
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: When Mark was a Sr, he qualified for NCAA as
: an individual and his coach was sick, so his
: dad went with him. When his dad came back
: with the receipts he did not get
: re-imbursed.
:
: Mark got over that and about 7-8 years later
: won some events and gave $10k for three
: trips to Hawaii as a recuriting tool. The
: Dept said "golf normally gets 6% of the
: department budget, so here is $600".
: Mark learned of this and was done.
:
: I ran into him at the Golf Show in Orlando
: in Jan of 98, my third year. He was excited
: about what we were doing and agreed to do an
: event for us in teh future.
: "Unfortunately" he won two majors
: that year and his free days were all of a
: sudden worth $100,000 plus. His caddy had
: either Lou Gherigs disease or MS or
: something so that became the charity he
: supported, although he did donate some
: auction items to us.
:
: He has donated a few auction items to UCI
: since Shaun enrolled, but I have been told
: the perception is he felt they weren't going
: for high enough bids, so has not yet done
: anything for their event next week.
:
: The CLASSIC was when the College of Business
: Administration named Mark the Outstanding
: CBA Graduate about 7-8 years ago over my and
: Shumard's and the Alumni Associations STRONG
: OBJECTIONS. When he learned about it, he
: laughed and said something to the effect
: "if I am the best, that degree must not
: be worth much". That flagrant action
: may equal the Legendary Speilberg Ask!
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: Thanks Hank....I enjoyed the interview. I
: wonder whether Mark has supported our golf
: program over the years. Maybe Livy would
: be willing to comment.
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