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How in the hell is LSU going to gather info on every top high school football player in the country by itself ? That can NOT be done every year with the staff LSU has, you're nut if you think we can and still WIN football games.

It will come down to what the money was paid for. I imagine LSU evaluates film and camps like every other school. It't my understanding this Lyles had a shady rep and should be avoided.

The bottom line will always be the agents (scouts) relationship to the players and what the expectations were.

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Posted by LSU77

Uptown New Orleans

Member since Dec 2006

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Posted on 3/15/11 at 4:58 pm to RogerTheShrubber

LSU paid the company Lyles worked for at the time. LSU didn't pay Lyles directly. I understand Lyles has since left said company AFTER LSU dealt with them. Lyles was that campanies Rep.

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Posted by King Joey

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Posted on 3/16/11 at 9:11 am to RogerTheShrubber

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It't my understanding this Lyles had a shady rep and should be avoided.

Your understanding from where? I've heard throughout this fiasco about how "everybody knew" Lyles was dirty, and yet I'd never even heard his name before the NCAA stuff came out. Does anyone have a source for him being "shady" or "dirty" from before the NCAA interest in him broke?

I'm not an insider or a recruiting guru by any stretch, but this sounds an awful lot like the very familiar refrain surrounding most high-profile accusations. As soon as someone's name is mentioned in connection with a scandal, there's a bunch of people who suddenly show up claiming to have "always known," despite never having mentioned their suspicions to anyone before the media aired them.

Like I said, I have no way of knowing one way or the other, but I've yet to see anything resembling a source supporting the claims that Lyles already had a reputation before this investigation came out. If there were a report, a blog, even a message board post from like 2007 or 2008 referencing Lyles' "shadiness", these vague "he was always dirty" claims would seem less spurious.