I hope so.. but until I see anything official saying it isnt the Ducks, I wont rest easy lol. I'm just gonna pass along info as I receive it
Probably is LSU or Tennessee. I'm sticking with my Tennessee prediction. I also think that Cowherd would have leaked 'anonymous' information to a buddy like Canzano or Isaac Ropp had it been Oregon. Colin has a soft spot for the Ducks and for our state, and I think he would have been a bit down about even hinting at the news.
So .. take this fwiw, but this is the 'bombshell' article published by SI.com today. On a side note, John Canzano contacted friends of his at SI, and they had no idea what the fuck Cowherd was talking about, except that perhaps this was the article and he got some bad information. Probably why Cowherd didn't say anything about it today. It's on college football and crime. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/the_bonus/02/27/cfb.crime/index.html?eref=sihp
If it is Oregon, it looks to me maybe from a kid from Temple Texas... problems with agents or w/e. That couldn't be a big penalty, could it? A loss of a scholarship or two? USC was a ton worse than whatever we did, and they only got a 2-3 year penalty. We should have like one year of a few less schollies.
Also, this may possibly be the story (from what i'm gathering)... Scout.com article had a rumor about major program getting in trouble. Cowherd piggy backed and made a connection to an SI article. SI article was published and has nothing to do with Oregon. Canzano talked to his SI source and they don't know wtf he is talking about. Cowherd made absolutely no mention of this on his show today. Oregon says they have no idea. We will see later today what the truth is hopefully. Could be nothing...
Cowherd is such a fucking douchebag. I was on the ESPN board as well, and somebody posted this link from last week. http://www.sportsinferno.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81859&page=1 Basically exactly what Cowherd's "inside source" supposedly told him. Now, if it is anything related to LaMike, why the hell would he have returned to UO? Supposedly some magazine knows about payments to him, yet he goes right back to the school after being a Heisman Trophy finalist? Cowherd = Drama
http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=128&f=1423&t=7254793 Flenory has had dozens of top Texas HS kids go through his camps, as has Lyles, yet 2 kids from Oregon are going to land the UO program in hot water? Seems like hyperbole to me. SI ran similar stories on AAU coaches acting as agents for top basketball prospects a few years ago. Unless there is a check coming directly from a connected booster to a player, I just don't see the big deal. Plus, Oregon self-reports on things like a phone call, yet paying players somehow flies under the radar?
SportsByBrooks has about as much credibility as any of us on this board do. He basically just retweets information.
Brooks the Douchebag was going to have a press release at 5pm! It's a nothing story, and somebody completely punked Cowherd. SI spent 6 months on this week's cover story about crime rates at Top 25 schools, yet they are funding and confirming another story about Anthony Wallace, a 4-star LB, that has 100% proof in one month since signing day? And that is a cover story? Against Phil Knight, who is basically funding SI at this point? Fuck Cowherd. I'm considering calling that clown's show just to haze him, and I'll even tell his producer about my own rumors about poor Colin here in PDX.
