According to Colin Cowherd (so take it fwiw) its a top 12 program who USC is very familiar with. Hope its not the Ducks.. would hate for Professional Fan to be right If you go by the "top 12" statement and look at last years top 12 maybe. USC is pretty familiar with Oregon, Ohio State, and Stanford. thoughts?
according to Canzano.. Ducks "havent heard a peep" about it from NCAA. Although to be fair SI Outing a program would probably lead the NCAA to investigating. So that statement could be entirely true, yet misleading. http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/or...f/2011/03/canzano_blog_oregon_football_d.html
If it's Oregon there would be rumors all over the OLive boards and local radio. On the ESPN boards, this NCAA hammer has been hinted at for a few weeks, and it's for a team out of the midwest.
I hope its correct. but fwiw on some Ducks forums where there is actual traffic it is being talked about. I hope its Stanford since Harbaugh bolted. if its a Pac 12 team lol
A poster on that link says that it is an SI story about the recruiting of Lache Seastrunk, Taj Boyd, and Anthony Wallace, and some street agent connected to them. Oregon will supposedly be hit with major recruiting violations based on the subsequent NCAA investigation. Which is odd, because Seastrunk has been tied to being offered cash from Auburn.
yeah the comment said to google the guys name, and I did, but the first thing that came up was some USC fan anti Oregon rant, so I took it with a grain of salt. But Oregon has two of those players and was thought to be a lock for the other kid in Boyd.
Check out this post and the information on Baron Flenory. Seems as if SI may be simply following up on wherever it is this article originated. http://www.shaggybevo.com/board/sho...nts-in-Texas?p=2321315&viewfull=1#post2321315
Flenory is the guy on the right as you look at the photo. What I don't understand is why Oregon would take heat for this? Doing 20 minutes of research on street agents, they are primarily connected to the SEC.
I was just reading the same exact thing but on a Tennessee online post. Also mentions Bryce Brown who the Ducks were in it right to the end for as well, before he went to UT. I dont like the connecting the dots my brain is doing here. http://s1.zetaboards.com/thevolunteeronline/topic/3991355/1/
Oregon is rising up in the place of SC and is not afraid of the SEC.. gotta keep the SEC on top I guess.
Every other major school in the country is talking to the same people. Oregon will be the "poster child" for this because of our rather recent ascent into being an elite program. Whether or not anything comes of this is another story, but dozens of schools in BCS conferences have signed players represented by street agents.
Very valid point, thanks for putting it that way. Put it back into perspective for my racing brain right now lol. Its not like these kids werent being recruited by a whole bunch of schools.
On second thought, Cowherd mentioning "a program that USC is familiar with" seems just too obvious in pointing to Oregon. I'm guessing it's Tennessee, due to the Lane Kiffin connection. Why would he mention USC at all?
also.. guests I see you lurking out there. Feel free to join up on the discussion. Interested to here your thoughts.
I just don't see Sports Illustrated writing an article about Oregon, which advertises in SI via Nike, that they could write with ten times the instances about an SEC school. Maybe I'm wrong, though. Dealing with street agents is standard in recruiting. Unless Oregon is literally buying street agents and players, I just don't see the story. Plus, it's just like Colin Cowherd to tease something like this, yet next week, he'll again be lecturing everyone how bad rumormongering is to sports journalism, and how he always shows restraint. Since this is the Oregon board, and hardly any regular will see it, I can relay my own rumor about Cowherd. A buddy of mine had sex with a woman very familiar to Cowherd while Colin and his wife lived and worked in Portland. I know of this from a first-hand source. I won't reveal who the woman is, though.
Well Wheels' last post officially kills it, right? It says for the record Oregon is not the program. But how sweet that whenever anything Oregon happens the National Media jumps all over it.
