Mike Bellotti’s had enough

After less than a year on the job, Oregon AD Mike Bellotti has quit to take a broadcasting job with ESPN. The timing is a little curious when you consider the fact that the school is searching for a basketball coach to open up a new $227 million arena.

Everything was tulips and daisies for Bellotti until the football team he handed over to Chip Kelly got as lawless as a Mexican border town on Cinco de Mayo.

DUI, assault, burglary - name a crime short of murder and an Oregon Duck football player has probably committed it in the last five months. I certainly wouldn’t want to be the AD when the floodgates completely break and the team is implicated in a counterfeiting scheme or a Medicare fraud ring. At this point, I don’t put anything past these guys.

Even though finding creative ways to spend Phil Knight’s money brings a cool dimension to being Oregon’s AD, I think Bellotti’s life will be infinitely easier with the job in his rearview. No more late night calls from Kelly with questions like, “Do you know any good bail bondsmen?”