re: New OTL article on Lyles/LSU

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Doesn't make us look good either

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how? just looks like we paid for a shitty product. nothing illegal about that

From LSU's perspective $6K is absolutely nothing. It costs LSU/TAF 2-3 times that for a single working day for Les Miles

If they want to do this story - they need to look at all of the recruiting videos being offered by different services.

Some of them are quite good - some of them are poor... but some access to information is better than none and without the ability of coaches to go and watch more high school football games? Every school without a sweetheart deal with the local high school is scrambling to identify prospects

Seriously OTL - if there is more money than that involved then OK run your story (if you show other schools and the value they receive for their packages). But would even one of your junior reporters be willing to truck his arse all over the place like Lyles did? For maybe 37K a year (25k from oregon + 12 from cal and lsu)? Really? Would you really pay for that much travel? He is pulling in a lower middle class or worse salary - the replacement cost if you let a coach do that is probably 75K-300K at many programs

And shite - what has Cal shown about what they got? Doesn't it seem like they are getting a complete pass?

By my calculations, it is a little over 10% of the total volume provided. If over half was this way, I would say LSU has a problem. But given the already public disclosure of Schad's "revelation" by LSU in the press release last, this more a reflection on LYLES and OREGON and sensationalism on the part of the Media right now...

i think he was paid in the past by LSU

Yeah this article is all spin> We have always said some of the material is old players currently in college. But they completely want to ignore all the video that is useful because that doesn't make us out to be doing something wrong.

I bought a shirt last week that had a hole in it...

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i think he was paid in the past by LSU

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Nothing in this story says that.

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Herb Vincent, LSU's associate vice chancellor for communications and senior associate athletic director, said in an email to ESPN last Thursday that "LSU began receiving materials in early October 2010 according to our coaches. Our computer records show that much of the video from the DVDs were loaded into LSU's recruiting evaluation system by mid-November 2010."

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or that his company is a front for a bigger, more lucrative business???

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Couldn't have been too lucrative. His business went under and now he works in a grocery store. Maybe directly related to the crappy quality goods he was producing.

TBH, his current employment is what scares me the most. He may see a way to make a quick dime, and sell false stories to the sports media, who would pay well and fast.

As badly as we need a QB, I think we would've paid more than 6k for Mett.

I think it's all bullshite unless we find out Lyles received more money from LSU. IF he received more money, I'd say there's a good chance LSU was buying players and the videos were a cover. Unless someone finds the paper trail, this is a non issue. I think the way we handled the Hicks situation put us in good favor with the NCAA and that LSU's trouble is behind it unless something substantial (paper trail) can be proven.

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Was that the 1st or just the last time we "paid" Lyles

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We only paid Lyles himself once.