re: Thayer Evans Article on LSU and Randle and street agents

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I'm not happy that LSU is associated with this character but Randle's recruitment does not follow the norm for shady agent-assisted recruitments.

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i think you fail to realize how many kids have handlers. we just hear about the kids you mentioned b/c fanbases get sore and try to throw dirt (while ironically being in bed with the same handlers)

those are the one we remember, so we assume those are the "real" handler situations

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duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude

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The HS coach says it was a lie

2 out of three? Damn Memphis, you would know better than I would. Is this mostly with players without involved fathers, or does it even matter?

I think many times these street agents know where the kids want to go and then tell that school they will deliver the kid to that school for a certain price...particularly in Lache's situation. The players may or may not be aware or benefit from it.

Great, it keeps getting better.

I would put it at 98% that LSU is going to get dinged for a major violation since $ changed hands. Too many Texas high school coaches have been loudly calling Lyles a cheater too long and too often for any college to pretend they didn't know.

All it boils down to now is to see how heavy the hammer is on LSU.

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LSU paid $6K for 'street agent' services

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If you're going to come in and pipe-in trying to act like a smartass, read the whole topic. He was referring to the first article that was posted idiot

And yes, Texas is a pure college that would do no wrong . Good job jumping to conclusions about LSU getting a major violation based on a Thayer Evans article. The $6,000 was given to the scouting service that Lyles works for, a VERY common practice among pretty much EVERY team and they do this with more than one scouting service

Are they innocent? I don't know, but I'm going to wait until someone a little more in the know says something. Go ask Thayer about Cam cheating at Florida. Thayer gets one small tip and rolls with it with hardly any research. He's been that way his whole career.

Another little note here: I know this is a premium article but this LINK was written on DECEMBER 3rd, 2009 where Randle stated that if LSU offered, he would likely have a quick answer for them. According to Thayer, Randle didn't meet Lyles until the Army All-American Combine in JANUARY of 2010. So, tell me why LSU would pay Lyles personally to help recruit this kid who named LSU clearly his leader a month before even meeting Lyles to help bring Randle to LSU?

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Ah, yes, the "everyone does it so it is OK" defense. The lat refuge of the stupid and the morally bankrupt.

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if LSU is going to get a major violation, then the shite ton of the SEC, Big12, ACC, and Pac10 schools will get major violations

and it's not like LSU was busted having a student organization arrange for girls to frick recruits or anything

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still, LSU payed a guy who is VERY well known by Texas High School coaches as a slimeball 6K for these very services.

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and i don't know if it's against NCAA rules

or, at the least, it will be difficult to prove that any rules under the current format were broken

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I know Texas & LSU chase a lot of the same players

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we don't really. LSU goes after almost all guys in TX who UT doesn't go after. we battle very rarely

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I will be fall-out-of-my-chair shocked if anyone who paid the man AND signed a recruit through him dodges the bullet.

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it's impossible to prove what payments were made for the services and what payments were mad to the man to sign the kids

do we know if UT paid for any recruiting services with an employee who may have had a personal relationship with a kid? honest question. i bet you don't know, and i bet UT doesn't know

LSU paid $6,000 to Complete Scouting Services, a college recruiting firm that employs reputed street agent Will Lyles, unless Lyles owns and runs the business himself i dont see the problem

LSU senior associate athletic director Herb Vincent told the Times Picayune LSU paid $6,000 for the JUCO Per State Package which includes game films from California and Kansas Junior Colleges and costs $3,000 per state. Vincent said LSU used 14 different recruiting services last year, ranging from $39.95 to ESPN Insider to $20,000 for National Prep Network