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Message: [QUOTE="jonson, post: 2894584, member: 6034"] I'll second that. I think that the Oregon City coach eventually went to Vanderbilt with (I think) his daughter, and the program has never been the same since. One bit of trivia from the past: back when the Ducks had a decent basketball team under Jody Range n the late 90s (they tied for the Pac 10 title in 1998-99 and won it outright in 1999-2000, with 8 NCAA Tournament appearances during her tenure) the team featured a number of Australian players whom Tara labeled "mercenaries." (A couple of them still live in Eugene.) Runge was dismissed in 2001 amidst a great deal of controversy and the program basically went down the tubes until Graves's arrival (with, ironically, another international cast, although now that's become a widespread practice, even at Stanford.) [/QUOTE]