Lyles states the truth is somewhere in the middle. Shouldn't he just tell the truth and not leaving it up to the NCAA and fans to find the "middle"? He knows he's a liar - that's why his story has changed several times and he can't just say, 'I told the truth...' After talking with Yahoo! Sports, Lyles spoke with columnist George Schroeder of The Register-Guard newspaper in Eugene. "I'm not saying I'm an angel, I'm not saying I'm a devil. The truth usually lies somewhere in the middle," Lyles told Schroeder in a phone interview. I suspect the truth of this whole mess lies somewhere in the middle of everything we've been hearing. And considering he's now changed his story about the services he provided the Ducks, I can't help but feel like Lyles might not be the most credible source in all this. Besides, even while acknowledging that, in retrospect, he probably did something wrong, Lyles still contends that he didn't steer recruits toward specific schools. As a scouting service provider who's trying to create business relationships with as many different schools as possible, that wouldn't have been the smartest business move for him, anyway. But I suspect that the worst Kelly and the Ducks coaches did was to exploit a loophole in NCAA rules regarding recruiting services providers. A loophole that, as Sports Illustrated noted in a recent story, will most certainly be closed, and soon. As more and more information is revealed in this whole fiasco, I admit to being a bit embarrassed by it all. But I also am not yet buying into all the doomsday talk. http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ycn-8744131 by Adam Sparks - reporter, copy editor, designer and systems administrator during a 14-year newspaper career that has taken him from Oregon to Hawaii.
Lyles has a long career in front of him as a politician... after he gets done serving 7yrs in prison for tax evasion. You know that dumb SOB hasn't paid taxes on any of that money.
