Oregon AD Pat Kilkenny is a Stand Up Guy

The stellar blog, Larry Brown Sports, found this item about AD Pat Kilkenny winning over Oregon students.

55 members of Oregon's student spirit group, the Pit Crew, camped out all night to get NCAA tournament tickets to watch their Oregon Ducks play in Spokane. Much to their delight, AD Pat Kilkenny showed up with his wife and treated the students to coffee and muffins. The couple had a much better surprise in store for the students:

Then came the announcement that the tickets ($56 per ticket, per game) were taken care of. Same goes for the bus, an idea [Pit Crew President Robert] Griesinger said he'd been pushing various people to consider for some time. Kilkenny, he said, called him one up one day and said he'd make it happen - and he did. [Kilkenny said] "If they're anything like I was when I was in college, they're broke."

Good PR move by Kilkenny. He was hired less than a month ago to replace Bill Moos as the Ducks AD and this is just a generous, cool gesture. It's one thing to show up, interact with the students and provide food. That in itself is an awesome move. But to cover thousands of dollars worth of tickets? That's just generous.

Good guy, that Pat Kilkenny. If ADs everywhere were like him, well, college students would be better fed and less broke.