McMINNVILLE — Garry Killgore is very familiar with the story of Bill Bowerman, the Oregon track coach who designed Nike’s prototype athletic shoe.

His admiration for the iconic coach was evident on a recent Tuesday during a workout at the Linfield College pool, where his copy of “Bowerman and the Men of Oregon” sat on a counter nearby. He had loaned it out and had just gotten it back.

“I would never pretend to be Bowerman, and I would never want to be,” said Killgore, who coached track and cross-country at the McMinnville college.

But he has — somewhat reluctantly — become Oregon’s latest coach-cum-businessman.

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