“Lastly, this isn’t like Saban as Chip hasn’t had a press conference since immediately following the Fiesta Bowl.”

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So just because he didn’t have a press conference it’s okay to lie to the the fans, the school, the players, and the new recruits and make them believe you are staying??? I mean Oregon’s AD was gushing as reports say at Kelly’s honesty and “thrilled” to get the call on a Sunday night that Kelly would remain the head coach at Oregon. Two weeks later its SPLITSVILLE!!! But go ahead SPIN SPIN SPIN AWAY!!!

I followed the story on CFT. Several schools purchased scouting reports from Lyles’s company–which wasn’t a violation of NCAA rules. The problem is with schools that appeared to pay Lyles for steering players their way.

As far as I know, LSU paid only $5,000 or $6,000 for reports on JUCO players and could document what they received for their money. Oregon, on the other hand, supposedly claimed to have paid $25,000 for the same or similar info? I’m not sure if there’s more to Oregon’s NCAA troubles than that, but I believe LSU is in the clear on this.

Not a lot surprises me in football, but this one really did throw me for a loop. I just don’t get it. You had me convinced I’d been too hard on Kelly, that a weekend is a reasonable amount of time to consider a career change of that magnitude. But as you say, why announce you’re staying at Oregon, then two weeks later announce you’re taking the Philly job? What on earth happened during those two weeks?

I can’t help wondering whether, like Carroll with USC, Kelly is expecting Oregon to be sanctioned. If that’s the case, I’d like to knock Goodell in the head. I am vehemently opposed to the NCAA punishing schools while the coaches and players involved move on to the NFL. The league could and should stop allowing these guys to just move on up. And the NCAA should stop slamming coaches and players for what their predecessors may have done.

If that’s not the case, then why drag it out for the last two weeks?

FYI – not this year, but the year before that, after they had pissed their pants, they went out and worked the Ducks a good one. In fact, I think they did it up North at Nike U. You don’t want to remember that one do you.

Yes, the Ducks beat us pretty good this year, I’ll give you that. But I doubt anyone was or will be in fear of playing in that game.

when you say kids, and college football, don’t you actually mean unpaid labor who is required to serve a minimum 2-3 year “internship/indentured servitude” whilst producing billions of dollars in revenue for the corporation as well as saving millions to hundreds of millions for the NFL as they as a result do not need a farm team or developmental leagues.

if so, yeah the “kids” will be good. glad someone somewhere cares.

I don’t know whether to feel worse for Oregon or Philly.

Would it be fair to say he “Pete Carroll’ed” Oregon?