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Article: Light leaving Oregon to coach at Texas Tech.(Sports)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- September 8, 2005
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Byline: Ron Bellamy The Register-Guard
Rock Light, one of the assistant coaches who helped the Ducks win the Pac-10 Conference men's track and field title last spring, is leaving Oregon for a similar position at Texas Tech.
Light, 48, confirmed that Oregon coach Vin Lananna offered him a position on the UO coaching staff for the coming school year, which would have been his third at Oregon. But the Texas Tech job offered a better financial package and incentives and the greater certainty of a longer-term commitment, he said, although that contract, like Oregon's, is officially a one-year deal.
"They made me one of those offers that, I'm not ...