Comments on: Reports Oregon paid $25K for contained no ’11 recruits? http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/ CollegeFootballTalk on NBCSports.com Thu, 23 May 2013 02:15:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: southernpatriots http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-45104 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:27:40 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-45104 Oregon is facing big challenges at this time. It could get worse before the first game. We hope it doesn’t. We want Oregon to be full strength for the first game with us. May we all enjoy the contest at Jerry’s World! Geaux Tigers!

]]> By: pricecube http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-44975 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:34:02 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-44975 @pbr

well said…

]]> By: waynefontes http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-44973 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:15:19 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-44973 A fool and his money are soon parted.

]]> By: paulbrownsrevenge http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-44955 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 02:37:02 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-44955 @pricecube
no i get what what your saying. It makes sense, its sad the schools get hammered for these things instead of coaches, agents, boosters, etc…. I think patterson has done an excellent job at TCU. I wish they would get invited to the big12. that would be fun to watch. anyways, I think the saddest part of all of this are the guys who go to play college football, work hard in the classroom and on the field. earn their spot…. then they suffer when the school looses out on a bowl game. pete carroll finds out trouble is coming, so he bails on the school and kids he recruited for bigger money(and no consequences) its sad

]]> By: pricecube http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-44948 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:59:35 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-44948 @paulbrownsrevenge

I beg to differ. Maybe a lot of the programs at the top are dirty … I don’t know. As a TCU alum I believe we could have competed with anyone last year… We just had our best recruiting class ever… It had zero five stars and only a handful of four stars… I honestly do not believe we are doing anything under the table… (God I hope not)… In any case as others have said… the biggest losers in these scandals are always the fans. They need a way to penalize the individual players and coaches involved… perhaps retroactive fines based on a percentage (say 25%) of the coaches income for every yr the underhanded activity was taking place. That might incentivise running a clean program. Idk what the answer is honestly.

]]> By: paulbrownsrevenge http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-44927 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:04:50 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-44927 The only programs you’ll find that arent dirty are the ones that don’t compete at a high level. Northwestern is a prefect example. Great school, Coach, Academic standards, and clean players…… wont ever win a National title. It’s hard to root against those schools no matter who you like.

]]> By: paulbrownsrevenge http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-44924 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:01:27 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-44924 every program has issues. when you deal with over 100 aggressive kids who were the best in HS, you are going to have troubles at some point. its how the program deals with it.
“Fans of dirty programs love to say that every program is dirty”. find a prefect school with no arrests, drug problems, recruiting violations etc. it happens everywhere. There’s always one player that gives a team a black eye. In the SEC they have multiple eyes, so its no big deal

]]> By: paulbrownsrevenge http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-44923 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:55:34 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-44923 how is this story not getting the same or more attention than OSU. a few players sold stuff for tattoos, but these guys pay for players and it doesnt make the bottom line on espn. WOW

]]> By: centexhorn http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-44922 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:53:51 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-44922 Fans of dirty programs love to say that every program is dirty.

]]> By: paulbrownsrevenge http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-44894 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:03:00 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-44894 College football is a business. It generates More money than it ever has. It’s more popular than ever. it’s market is much broader then the NFL. The big problem plain and simple is that College Football really became popular fast 15 years ago, and the NCAA did not know how to handle it. The NCAA is a business. College is a business. How much money do universities make off of kids that dont graduate. How are these institutions any different from a predatory lender??? They have a great thing going right now, but the media and its obsession with scandals is working on destroying football. Lets go back the way it was over a decade ago. let the media cover the games. let the local newspapers report players screwing up.

]]> By: jw731 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-44881 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:16:27 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-44881 Every major collegiate program is dirty, you would have to have your head up you’re ass to think otherwise…..Do you happen to notice how much money is involved in major college sports, yes, they don’t do it for the money, they do it for the betterment of student-athletes lives…Uh huh..The NCAA schould change it’s acronym to PTAA…As in Barnum….

]]> By: soflatrojan http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-44870 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:50:34 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-44870 It was widely known that Seastrunk was a pay for play guy the year he came out. I know he was a heavy USC lean under Carroll and when Kiffin came in USC immediately pulled his offer. That’s probably a pretty good tell right there, you dont’t pull offeres from 5 star running backs. This is probably the reason a lot of schools backed off of him that and his nickname Lache MEstrunk.

Oregon is as dirty as they come it was fitting to see Auburn vs U of Zero in the MNC. I am sure the more the investigate Oregon the more they are going to find.

]]> By: burntorangehorn http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-44868 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:30:18 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-44868 centex–UT backed off Seastrunk. There was apparently very little interest on UT’s part, based on Seastrunk’s public flamboyance and the hand he had permanently stuck out for fringe benefits.

]]> By: buckeye044 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-44866 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:46:09 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-44866 There appears to be a systemic issue throughout major college sports. Just not sure how to correct it with the money being so large.
If you pay players, how much is enough? If you let them sell their stuff, some jackass will way over pay.
It’s sad, really. This is why the university presidents have been fighting not to have a playoff. The money would be so big, the pressure to skirt the rules would be even greater.

]]> By: centexhorn http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-44859 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:01:59 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-44859 I’ve been saying that this Oregon thing is bigger than OSU for months now. We (Texas) didn’t even have a CHANCE with Lache Seastrunk (who is from right down the street from Austin in Temple, Texas) after Major Applewhite told Lache on the phone that Willie Lyles was “bad news” and to stay away from him. Lache didn’t even visit UT. Willie was pissed at that and Lache was pissed at us because Willie had convinced him he was his friend.

Sadly, Lache seems to be pretty naive and vulnerable. He totally got taken advantage of. Even if he knew about it and got some cash in return, he still got exploited. I mean, Temple is just this little town.

Who I feel sorry for the most is Oregon fans. They don’t deserve this at all.

I hope it’s all a mix-up, but there are a lot of questions to be answered.

]]> By: cosanostra71 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-44858 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:34:41 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-44858 I’m a huge USC fan, and it pains me to say this, because I’ve been calling foul on Oregon for a few years now, but if Oregon goes down before Auburn does, I’m done with college football forever. The SEC bias isn’t even hidden anymore.

]]> By: neyvit http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-44857 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 05:01:30 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-44857 This is pretty shocking. Not that I’m shocked it happened, but they were too incompetent to even *pretend* like they were “buying” an actual product. They couldn’t even take the effort of copying and pasting the ESPN 150, Rival, Scout recruit lists for the right year?

And I believe that this is on a completely different level than USC/OSU. While coach(es) at those schools can be rightfully accused of turning a blind eye and even lying to cover the mistakes of the players, it never got to the point that the school itself was using its own funds to buy recruits.

But the most frustrating thing about this is I wouldn’t be shocked if NCAA busts outs its “OH THIS IS A LOOPHOLE THAT’LL WE’LL ADDRESS IN THE FUTURE. NOTHING TO SEE HERE, LETS MOVE ON” similar to what it did with Cam Newton’s father admitting to trying to sell his kid’s services.

]]> By: oregontrash http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-44855 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:08:35 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-44855 Ummm, jmark…. I think you might be forgetting the worst offender of them all…. Aubarn.

Oh, that’s right, innocent until proven guilty… LMAO

Sorry Tigers, you just might have the best fans in the country (most hospitable folks I’ve ever met), but you’re program is filthy dirty.

]]> By: jaggedmark http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-44854 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 02:58:28 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-44854 I hate USC & I hate Ohio St worse than Oregon, but let me say this.

Paying to have players steered your way is worse than anything those two schools did (combined), Oregon. You criminals.

]]> By: oregontrash http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-44852 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 02:42:07 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-44852 The University of Oregon (aka- Nike U) has enough money to buy anything they want. They have some of the best athletic facilities in the country.

Too bad they can’t buy trophies to fill the trophy room.

Classic example of new money.

]]> By: jesse1834 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-44850 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 01:54:30 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-44850 Yawn they all do this. The NCAA is the biggest communist organization in the US. It must be stopped, I wish the top programs would secede from the NCAA.

]]> By: jaggedmark http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-44849 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 01:44:29 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-44849 will do nothing but reinforce the perception that Lyles steered recruits, including prized running back Lache Seastrunk in 2010, to the school and received a nice five-figure sum for his efforts in return.
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That’s exactly what happened.

]]> By: patbocam http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/20/reports-oregon-paid-25k-for-contained-no-11-recruits/#comment-44848 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 01:43:15 +0000 http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=73274#comment-44848 Quack attack is going down. USC and now Oregon, who’s next PAC-12?

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