I am working for a national distribution for the previous post... there has been great demand for which I am grateful!Today, though, just a brief snippet of another subject I am looking into; the broader problem of mentors and where they fit into NCAA guidelines.The NCAA is keenly aware of mentors and their relationships with athletes. However, most of their literature is related to mentors and cu
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Time for a new tidbit that might shed even more light on how mangled Lache Seastrunks relationships were during his last two years of high school.We have heard Lyles call himself Lache's “mentor." Yahoo printed such statements as fact simply because they came from the man's mouth. But that's the thing about mentor's; typically, kids who are mentored by someone appreciate their mentors and talk can
Read MoreI have a couple of belated thoughts on Chip Kelly's statements yesterday. They seemed pretty tame on the surface, not likely to get much attention. But let's look again at two different statements: "misconceptions" and "80 schools."I think those two things give us a great deal of insight into what the Ducks strategy is with the NCAA.In every business there is a worker who is new and working his wa
Read MoreOkay, I believe I have caught up with most of my posts over the last week or so, from this point forward, I will attempt to share my thoughts here with full permission for others to share these thoughts as they please!
Read MoreSome real problems with his story:So I am going to break down the inaccuracies point by point:“Dodging questions about the ongoing NCAA investigation”There was no “dodging” involved. Coach Kelly made a statement at the beginning of the press conference that mirrored the released statement. He is not permitted to answer these questions at this time. Dodging implies he is allowed to answer them,
Read MoreI have laid off of Mrs. Canzano because she had, for the most part, attempted to separate her professional and private life and had not taken any cheap shots.Yesterday, a very disturbing video was posted to YouTube by one of your newscasters, Anna Canzano. Someone needs to sit Mrs. Canzano down in a classroom and teach her the difference between the First Amendment and censorship. The First A
Read More(This was a response to an individual poster at the Register Guard) At no point did I personally ever attempt to exonerate Oregon as safe because Lyles is legit… when the story first broke, the only answer was, all schools use recruiting services… until we see evidence that Lyles was paid to steer, there is nothing to see here…When Lyles attempted to paint Oregon as a rogue program, while for...
Read MoreRob, it is fairly clear that Yahoo did not make a FOI request for LSU’s recruiting material AND wait for it to determine if they did indeed receive the quality information Lyles implied he gave them. This is clear based on how swiftly LSU did respond when asked.As for me being hypocritical, first i am not an impartial journalist and do not pretend to be one. Second, I am not ignoring anything,
Read More(This was a response, once again, to Rob Moseley playing devils advocate)Rob,The point is pretty simple… Lyles tries to justify his poor material to Oregon by saying that he “rushed it” together. He uses that concept to paint a picture of a cover-up.Yet, we now know that the material that wasn’t rushed was also garbage. He contradicts himself within the same article. Oregon’s material was “rus...
Read MoreOkay, something is really driving me nuts here…and Schroeder’s SI.com article only puts this over the top for me…The problem is the, so-called, cover-up. George, Canzano and every other pundit all point to one paragraph from Willie Lyles’ statement in the July 1 article for their “proof” of the cover up:“They said they just needed anything,” Lyles said of the embarrassingly thin recruiting prof
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