Yahoo reports that Oregon paid 'street agents', Athletic Department says it's within NCAA rules

i bet every recruit in texas or the top 200 went to those camps. oregon got a couple of them.

Sorry, I thought it was brilliant when I posted it in the other thread.

if WE’RE doing this, lil’ ol’ Oregon in the North West, then the SEC is probably skullfucking the law’s “spirit” over its mother’s grave.

its supply and demand. kids need someone to help them w/ all this. i’ve always wondered how the actually get to all the Junior Days and 7 on 7 camps but that’s a different issue. who’s supposed to help them? the high school coaches? their parents who have no clue how it works?

Oregon did have a legit recruiting service of over 1,000 kids for a very reasonable price of $7,500. They then went to a service of what is rumored to be SIX kids for a confirmed $28,000. That comes out to $466.67 per DIGIT of each kid’s phone number.

One of those six kids (could be more than six, but definitely not a legit service) was Seastrunk. And the guy running the service is rumored to have been sleeping with his mother. And his mother told his HS coach to not get involved in his recruitment because Lyles would take care of it.

Programs with tons of money and (relatively speaking) no recruiting talent in the surrounding area will draw suspicion. And they definitely can’t be doing things like sending that huge check to the wrong address.

unregulated figures who insert themselves into teens’ lives for no reason other than to profit off their connections to these kids

I guess we can both agree that we hate facebook too then.

we have a lot to learn from any team south of the Mason-Dixon line. share your wisdom.

i think someone needs to make a new edition of the pic w/ Uncle Phil, Snoop, DAT, The Duck and his sweet ride.

Stadium expansions.
State of the art arenas.
State of the art operations centers

Those can be filed under “Things UO does not pay for period”. Even I (a Husky) know that they lease the land to PK and he develops it and donates it back to the university.

it makes sense that we’d have to pay more for these camps or whatever in TX and FL cuz we don’t have any long term relationships built like we do in CA.

1. Was Oregon the only one paying Lyle for his recruiting services? If not, then were payments comparable to other schools.

No, other schools also paid him and will be examined.

2. How does the amount compare to other recruiting services?

It is way, way out of whack. That’s what will hurt UO. Lyles service is barely even a service. I was told that he only had six kids info listed at one point. I know one major service that charged $10,000. Lyles service in no way compares to that.

3. When was the payment made? Was it after the season and what services were provided? The Oregon AD know that all financial records are available for for public viewing so there must be some kind of invoice, especially for that amount.

A year ago I believe, if we are talking about buying Lache.

4. Did Oregon pay Lyle this year? If so, how much?

$28,000 or $25,000, have to figure out which number is right.

5. Is the total amount Oregon spends on these camps dramatically more than other universities with high profile football programs?

I am sure some schools also paid a lot, but not all.
To me the last question is the one the intrigues me the most.

1) Didn’t have a written contract with Bellotti for years, and
2) Didn’t say boo when he told them his unwritten contract called for a multi-million dollar severance package when he quit on his on voalition.

I seriously doubt Lyles’s “invoice” was anything more than a phone call. I’m not saying the Ducks paid for players, but attention to detail isn’t exactly the Athletic Department’s or General Counsel’s strong suit.

Contact info. Names, birth date, social, address, measurements, phone number, e-mail, parents names and contact info for them, same for the coach. And game film, often spliced and cut into highlights.

I’m totally looking forward for the arguments.

It will probably come down to a perspective of morality vs amorality. Both credible and dare I say – rational – perspectives.

How you come down on this issue depends, I guess, on if you believe that the recruits were “bought and paid for”.

The legality, I suspect, will hinge on whether any of the kilobucks sent to Flenory et al made their way into the hands of the player or family.

I need to know a lot, lot more about what the AD’s expectations were regarding to the value returned.

I don’t like it, but this is how AAU-style recruiting works. We better get used to this shit.

cuz their college football analysts have nike shoe deals. i hope they’re still televising our spring game.

Because it’s a slow news day.

Why do you think they spent more time than everyone else on the USC allegations?

The NCAA ISN’T looking at Oregon. They are looking at these recruiting services, for now. But it’s easier to sell “looking at Oregon”