Word on the street

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Tue Mar 01, 2011 6:50 pm

is a major college football program is about to be outed for major violations. So which SEC school are you guys going with? I'll say Tennessee.

L45B · Post by **L45B** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:19 pm

Hmmm, my guess would've been one of those schools whose coach just left for a broadcasting gig :? .

Killian · Post by **Killian** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:22 pm

My guess is that this won't happen because it was reported by Colin Cowherd. As soon as something he reports is factual, I'll look to see if there are cops flying outside my window.

MuchoBulls · Post by **MuchoBulls** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:38 pm

Wasn't there something that came out about Tennessee last month?

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 3:41 pm

Killian wrote:My guess is that this won't happen because it was reported by Colin Cowherd. As soon as something he reports is factual, I'll look to see if there are cops flying outside my window.

Thank god we don't have to listen to that a-hole in DC. Did you hear after John Wall's debut when he all but called him a n*gger? I wouldn't piss on Cowherd if he were on fire.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:54 pm

Screw_Michigan wrote:
Killian wrote:My guess is that this won't happen because it was reported by Colin Cowherd. As soon as something he reports is factual, I'll look to see if there are cops flying outside my window.

Thank god we don't have to listen to that a-hole in DC.

You don’t have to listen to him wherever you live, Tweedle-dumb. Face-fuck a meat cleaver.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:58 pm

Goober McTuber wrote:You don’t have to listen to him wherever you live, Tweedle-dumb. Face-fuck a meat cleaver.

The broad side?

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 5:09 pm

Screw_Michigan wrote:
Goober McTuber wrote:You don’t have to listen to him wherever you live, Tweedle-dumb. Face-fuck a meat cleaver.
The broad side?

Any side. Grab a BBQ fork and do a threesome. Hop to it.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 7:13 pm

Hey now...

First off, my U&L Homie Colin rules... Oregon honk, UDub hater... what's not to like? Was a fixture here for a long time.

Also -- get your grimey speculation off my team.

I'd be surprised -- usually, there's smoke before a fire.

Don't get me wrong, any team that wins is probably dirty, but it seems like we always hear specific rumors first.

So, if there's any truth someone is getting tittyfucked up the ass, my guess would be Tennessee or Auburn. There's been rumors of funny business at Arizona State,,, again, but just rumor. How can ASU be that dirty and play consistent .500 ball?

And on the outside chance that ASU did do some shit, I can't see the "repeat offender" getting off easy. Same with Auburn.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 7:17 pm

from what you've been hearing on UT, ATM, OSU, and OU boards for *years*...would not be surprised if it's Baylor.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 7:18 pm

Dinsdale wrote: How can ASU be that dirty and play consistent .500 ball?

Bill Frieder has prolly been asking himself that for years.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 8:30 pm

Papa Willie wrote:payed

Christ, you're a stupid as you are gelatinous.

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 8:39 pm

Screw_Michigan wrote:
Papa Willie wrote:payed
Christ, you're a stupid as you are gelatinous.

Killian · Post by **Killian** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 8:46 pm

Screw_Michigan wrote: Thank god we don't have to listen to that a-hole in DC. Did you hear after John Wall's debut when he all but called him a n*gger? I wouldn't piss on Cowherd if he were on fire.

Shock.

Cowherd is a front running douche nozzle that wants sports reporting to mirror TMZ.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 8:49 pm

Killian wrote: Shock. Cowherd is a front running douche nozzle that wants sports reporting to mirror TMZ.

He's a rating whore, more than anything. He'll say anything as long as it garners ratings.

Killian · Post by **Killian** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 9:12 pm

That's probably more accurate. In 2005 and 2006, he was first in line to toss Charlie Weis's gunt* on his shoulders so he could blow him. In 2007, he flipped on him as soon as other people started to turn on him.

Cowherd is never at the front of the pack with the torches, he's always squarely in the middle.

*I guess "gock" would be more accurate.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 10:00 pm

Sudden Sam wrote:
King Crimson wrote:from what you've been hearing on UT, ATM, OSU, and OU boards for *years*...would not be surprised if it's Baylor.
Impossible! Baptist-affiliated Baylor?! No way.

i screwed up. i thought i was on the basketball board. Scott Drew has been widely rumored to be "crossing the lines" to get his parade of top 150 recruits. so much so that he and Rick Barnes had a thinly veiled public spat about it a couple years ago...and it's been fodder on the homer boards, with high school coaches (allegedly) weighing in as well. my bad.

as you were.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 10:21 pm

Looks like something's afoot at North Carolina.

SoCalTrjn · Post by **SoCalTrjn** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 11:44 pm

They said top 10

North Carolina has never been a top 10 football program
Oregon has won fewer BCS bowls than Utah and hasnt won the bowl game their league champion goes to in over 60 years
South Carolina is as far from being a top 10 program as North Carolina... miles away

USC was already raped raw dog by the NCAA and their biased rulings
other top 10 type programs would be Alabama, Oklahoma, Florida, Texas, Ohio State, Michigan, Nebraska, LSU, Miami, FSU...

Bucmonkey · Post by **Bucmonkey** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 12:03 am

L45B wrote:Hmmm, my guess would've been one of those schools whose coach just left for a broadcasting gig :? .

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 12:59 am

SoCalTrjn wrote:They said top 10

They also said "today."

And you included FSU as a "Top 10 program"?

This kind of leads me to ask...

Do you know what century this is, Toejam?

I think we've just gained some valuable insight into your "personal struggles," and I'm sure we'll all be a little more sympathetic and compassionate when dealing with you in the future.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Thu Mar 03, 2011 2:02 am

Here's what I heard, according to my sources*.

-Top 10-15 caliber program. No distinction between right now and historically.
-Not USC or Auburn.
-Has ties to USC.

The "ties" to USC is why I thought UT. So I'm going 1 UT and 1a Oregon. With a greater likelihood that none of this means jack and I'm just trying to rile shit up in the off season.

*heard from a dude who heard from a guy who heard on the radio who probably heard from Cowturd.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 2:08 am

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:*heard from a dude who heard from a guy who heard on the radio who probably heard from Cowturd.

take it on the run baby

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 2:59 am

Goober McTuber wrote:take it on the run baby

What are faggy 80s bands Gobbles McFucktard can't let go of, Alex?

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 3:10 am

Screw_Michigan wrote:
Goober McTuber wrote:take it on the run baby
What are faggy 80s bands Gobbles McFucktard can't let go of, Alex?

I saw REO play local battle of the bands concerts in 1969, shit for brains.

SoCalTrjn · Post by **SoCalTrjn** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 4:02 am

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:Here's what I heard, according to my sources*.

-Top 10-15 caliber program. No distinction between right now and historically.
-Not USC or Auburn.
-Has ties to USC.

The "ties" to USC is why I thought UT. So I'm going 1 UT and 1a Oregon. With a greater likelihood that none of this means jack and I'm just trying to rile shit up in the off season.

*heard from a dude who heard from a guy who heard on the radio who probably heard from Cowturd.

They were saying that it may have something to do with an agent in Texas who has been steering players to Oregon. Also heard that it has to do with all the gifts Oregon recruits are getting from trips to Eugene. I hope thats the case, too much Nike schwag winding up in recruits hands and Phil Knight is forced to cut all ties with the program.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:34 pm

the more persistent rumor (rumor) i've seen is Lace Seastrunk, a 5* from Texas who committed to Oregon after everyone else backed off for "some reason".....and Anthony Wallace, a kid who was a solid commit to Arkansas who out of the blue tripped to Cal and UO....then committed to UO. involving these two Texas kids, UO's recruiting of them as the possible situation in question. possibly some questions about Lamichael James, too. Colorado lost a WR Diante Jackson to UO 2 years ago that raised some eyebrows around here....and some net rumblings from the recruiting "gurus". but, i'm just speculating about that.

according to a buddy that lives in Austin (Penn St. grad) there was some smoke around UT but supposedly the staff changes since last year either 1. fixed the issue or 2. provided the necessary scapegoats....so, i'm guessing it's not UT. buddy works at UT and he's usually got a good sense of what's happening in Austin.

like i said, just rumors re: UO.

SoCalTrjn · Post by **SoCalTrjn** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:59 pm

King Crimson wrote:the more persistent rumor (rumor) i've seen is Lace Seastrunk, a 5* from Texas who committed to Oregon after everyone else backed off for "some reason".....and Anthony Wallace, a kid who was a solid commit to Arkansas who out of the blue tripped to Cal and UO....then committed to UO. involving these two Texas kids, UO's recruiting of them as the possible situation in question. possibly some questions about Lamichael James, too. Colorado lost a WR Diante Jackson to UO 2 years ago that raised some eyebrows around here....and some net rumblings from the recruiting "gurus". but, i'm just speculating about that.

according to a buddy that lives in Austin (Penn St. grad) there was some smoke around UT but supposedly the staff changes since last year either 1. fixed the issue or 2. provided the necessary scapegoats....so, i'm guessing it's not UT. buddy works at UT and he's usually got a good sense of what's happening in Austin.

like i said, just rumors re: UO.

Deanthony Thomas, solid USC commit was at the Army AA game recruiting players to USC, 2 weeks before signing day he trips to Oregon and comes back to the airport in LA dressed like this

Oregon coaches didnt show any interest in Thomas until Phil told them to go get him, apparently at any cost. Thomas made up some story that he switched to Oregon from USC because he feared for his life after he was a witness to a gang slaying and testified against the killers, like his green light wouldnt follow him to Eugene and if that was the case he would have left town right away. His whole family is supposed to be moving to Oregon with him, they all going to live in the athletes dorm or is a cushy job at Nike waiting for them?

Hearing more and more that it has to do with Chip Kelly and an agent named Baron Flenory who was a player for kelly at UNH and has been delivering Texas based talent to Eugene while drawing an income from Nike, and another agent named Will Lyles who is also based in Texas and has been tied to players from that area winding up at Oregon

then theres this
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/n ... egon030311

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 1:13 am

this just up on yahoo sports:

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/n ... egon030311

Documents: Oregon paid pair with ties to recruits
Charles Robinson

The University of Oregon paid more than $28,000 to two men with ties to multiple recruits who signed letters of intent with the school, Yahoo! Sports has learned.

According to State of Oregon expenditure records, the university paid $25,000 to Will Lyles of Complete Scouting Services in Houston, and $3,745 to Baron Flenory of New Level Athletics. Lyles is a former athletic trainer who recently was serving as a mentor to highly touted Ducks running back recruit Lache Seastrunk. Meanwhile, Flenory runs the Badger Sports Elite 7-on-7 football camps which have featured several celebrated Ducks signees including running back DeAnthony Thomas, defensive back Cliff Harris, defensive back Dior Mathis and wideout Tacoi Sumler. Flenory had a personal training relationship with recent Ducks signee Anthony Wallace.

If Lyles and Flenory aided in or were involved in any way in the recruitment of student athletes to Oregon, they would be classified as boosters by the NCAA, and any payment to them from the school would be considered a violation of Bylaw 13. Bylaw 13 prohibits boosters from directing a recruit to a school.

A message left on the cell phone of Oregon coach Chip Kelly was not immediately returned, and there was no answer on a number listed for Lyles. Flenory said the payment to him was for a recruiting service that his company set up for Oregon. The package included names, birthdates and other info on potential recruits. Flenory said the package to Oregon was the only one ever sold by his company because “we stopped doing it because the NCAA said recruiting services could no longer do camps on college campuses. Because we were running camps, we decided that was a better business for us than to sell the recruiting packages.”

Flenory said he didn’t have an invoice readily available for the service, but that his company approached the school and offered the package. He said the school instructed him how he could be paid for the recruiting package. Flenory said he played no part in players either visiting or signing with the University of Oregon, and didn’t understand why the NCAA would have a problem with him.

“We stopped doing it when the NCAA made the rule,” Flenory said.

The payouts all took place within the last fiscal year and appeared in the annual college budget expenditures for the university. According to records, the monies were paid under the account for “Books, Publications and other References.” The $25,000 check was made out to “Willie J. Lyles/dba [doing business as] Complete Scouting”. The check to Flenory was made payable to his company, New Level Athletics.

Lyles became a known quantity on the football scene as a personal trainer in Houston while running a company called Speed Dynamics. The company held conditioning camps for players on college campuses. The camps were typically held in the summer and focused improving the speed and overall fitness of players as they headed into the fall football season. Lyles has also been affiliated with Complete Scouting Services, which claims to offer a national high school scouting and video database nationwide.

Flenory received his college degree from the University of New Hampshire, where he played under current Oregon coach Chip Kelly. Following his senior season in 2005, Flenory remained close to football, joining Scout.com as the company’s Midwest Scouting Director. In that position he made widespread connections with high school coaches and was charged with evaluating national prospects for the service. After leaving Scout.com, Flenory established New Level, which runs 7-on-7 tournaments and camps for the development of skill position players in the prep football ranks. Since the establishment of New Level, the tournaments have come to field some of the most coveted high school recruits in the country and include 32 traveling teams nationally.

Contact Yahoo! Sports investigative reporter Charles Robinson at WindyCityScribe@yahoo.com

SoCalTrjn · Post by **SoCalTrjn** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 1:26 am

Nice job posting a link to a story that was already linked the post before, over an hour before your post... this just up on yahoo sports..... over an hour after it was posted on here.
glass dick, thy name is King Crimson

ESPN is reporting on it now as well

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6179423

apparently Lyles is tied to Lamichael James.

Sports illustrated was going to do a expose report on it but when they heard Nike was going to pull all advertising in the magazine if they published it decided to kill the story.

Im going to dance the fucking jig when all of the players tied to those guys are ruled ineligible at oregon and Phil Knight is ordered to cut his ties to the schools athletic program

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 2:36 am

i saw an m2 size picture, the letters USC, and figured you were whining some more along your persecution angle....figured i could supplement my previous post. my bad, i guess.

nice socks Deanthony.

SoCalTrjn · Post by **SoCalTrjn** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:15 am

King Crimson wrote:i saw an m2 size picture, the letters USC, and figured you were whining some more along your persecution angle....figured i could supplement my previous post. my bad, i guess.

nice socks Deanthony.

it happens

one of the pics of Lyles that was posted on one of the sites was one that he posed for with Pete Carroll, Im sure in the NCAAs eyes that that is proof that he and Pete have been friends since diapers and USC will be hit for failing to monitor Oregons athletic program thus keeping USC banned from BCS Bowls for another 5 years

Killian · Post by **Killian** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:45 am

How many times has Oregon been on probation?

SoCalTrjn · Post by **SoCalTrjn** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:52 am

i dont know how many times they have been on probation, I know they just got off of probation in 06.
recruiting violations like these are far far worse to the competitive balance of college football than a failure to monitor violation.

Seastrunks High School coach said he was told by Seastrunks mother to not get involved with his recruitment, that Will Lyles was going to be handling it. Lyles was fired from Scout for copying their database as well as trying to direct players to Oregon at the all star game. He was also paid more than twice of what the other three scouting services Oregon used combined.

there are also photos like this, thats Lyles on the left and Flenory on the right

hardly look like impartial scouts, look more like Boosters
So now Oregon is paying boosters, thats an NCAA violation
Oregons boosters are steering players in the direction of Oregon, another NCAA violation
Its going to pile up on Oregon and they deserve a punishment far greater than what USC was given

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:46 pm

Killian wrote:How many times has Oregon been on probation?

The only one I can think of was a double-secret minor violation, which resulted in no lost schollies, no bowl restrictions, and no TV sanctions... pretty crippling stuff.

Of course, that was in the Golden Era, when Myles Brand (former U of O president) figured that his old buddies at Oregon and Indiana could do no wrong.

If this smoke catches fire, what a black eye for the NCAA -- how is the boxscore going to look for the 2011 BCS Game?

Auburn - 0
Oregon - 0

Vacate the title and the runner-up? Wouldn't that just be sweet?

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:53 pm

And BTW -- Oregon must be quite a bit cooler than Auburn -- Auburn pays $200,000 for 5-stars, Oregon is getting them for $25,000.

They should get an award, not a suspension.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 5:01 pm

Dinsdale wrote:And BTW -- Oregon must be quite a bit cooler than Auburn -- Auburn pays $200,000 for 5-stars, Oregon is getting them for $25,000.

Auburn players belong to a union. They get pensions too, BTW.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Fri Mar 04, 2011 5:22 pm

Sudden Sam wrote:
MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:is a major college football program is about to be outed for major violations. So which SEC school are you guys going with? I'll say Tennessee.
So it's Phil Knight U.

Shame on you. :D

I know. Considering the original source was Cowturd and his ties to the U&L, I should've went with Oregon.

Mace · Post by **Mace** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 3:54 pm

Goober McTuber wrote:
Dinsdale wrote:And BTW -- Oregon must be quite a bit cooler than Auburn -- Auburn pays $200,000 for 5-stars, Oregon is getting them for $25,000.
Auburn players belong to a union. They get pensions too, BTW.

True, but I think most kids would prefer free Nike gear for life.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 4:26 pm

You'll never guess what the big topic was on sports radio around here yesterday (particularly on the Ducks Radio Network)?

They actually interviewed several "street agents," including one of the involved parties.

They all said some of the same things...

One of the things they said was "Oregon isn't doing anything any other big name program doesn't do -- they're just the new kid on the big name block, and didn't do a good enough job cooking their books."

The other one pretty much all of them said was "They've become a threat to the traditional blue-chips. They ticked off the wrong people by going into their backyard and recruiting 5-stars. While I don't have firsthand knowledge, it doesn't take a rocket scientists to figure out which 5-7 team called the NCAA on them."

Yup, they all pointed the finger at the same whistle-blower. It was all good when Oregon was ~~buying~~ recruiting 2 and 3 stars. As soon as they pulled Heisman potentials and 5-stars out of 5-7's state, all of a sudden the NCAA is being tipped off.

And on a slightly different note, they broke down some money numbers on the radio yesterday.

Contrary to what we thought, there was actually two losers in the BCS Championship Game -- Oregon and Auburn.

Oregon finished $300,000 in the hole, Auburn $600,000 (Auburn brought more people and stayed at a little nicer hotel, etc.)

That ain't right.

ESPN made out just fine. The NCAA made out just fine.

Auburn and the SEC paid $600,000 for a glass trophy. Oregon and the PAC paid $300,000 for no trophy.

I know both teams could have been a little more frugal in their travel expenses and whatnot, but ESPN paid what, about $30 million for the game? Yet the travel expenses came out of the pockets of the people of Oregon and Alabama (OK, in a very very roundabout way)?

That just ain't right. I guess I'd be OK with the loser breaking even, but shouldn't the winner's conference get at least a few bucks of that extremely large pie?

I don't know the numbers-breakdown in previous years, but this just leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth, worse than the outcome of the game did. I guess to the victors go the spoils.

"You guys both had great seasons, and put on one hell of a show... here's your bill."