From July 8th story: "No, I wouldn't steer players to go to certain schools," Lyles said. "As a business, that would be stupid of me to even do that because I'm trying to procure more schools for business. So why would I send kids to one school? It doesn't make any sense." "Lache made his own decisions. LaMichael made his own decisions. I don't feel like I can have the influence to say, 'You need to do this.' I wouldn't want to do that anyway, because I don't want a kid to come back and look at me and say, 'You know this didn't work out for me. You told me to go to this school and now it didn't work out so it's your fault.' I don't want to have that hanging over my head because I want kids to make their own decisions and think for themselves." At the time, Lyles was a Texas scout for New York-based MSL Sports and Entertainment. A short time later, the father of an Oregon recruit told Lyles the Ducks were looking for running backs and Lyles called Kelly, then the offensive coordinator, to tell him about Texarkana Liberty-Eylau's James. "I gave him film on LaMichael James, and that's how the relationship started," Lyles said. Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/college/7644366.html#ixzz1SGYvbBoO
