Cal Football: Update On The Will Lyles Situation [Jon Wilner]

This is the most comprehensive report so far, and should hopefully assuage all your fears about the Lyles situation. (HT chowder)

"Monday, the school made available a prospect list provided by Lyles entitled "2010 Texas recruits."

All of the 49 prospects were found to be members of the class of 2010 – the list includes Oregon signee Lache Seastrunk, whose relationship with Lyles is part of the NCAA probe — and all but one is from Texas. The exception, Trovon Reed, is a receiver from Thibodaux, La., whose recruitment by Auburn is reportedly under examination by the NCAA.

The prospect list includes contact information such as street address, email address and home and cell numbers, all of which has been redacted by Cal, which cited federal privacy laws.

The list was sent from Lyles’ personal email account, as an attachment, to assistant coach Kenwick Thompson on Feb. 11, 2009 at 10:34 a.m., according to a document provided by Cal. (Thompson is from Houston and recruits the state of Texas.)

The date is five days after the National Signing Day for the class of 2009 and coincides with the start of the recruiting cycle for the class of 2010.

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Tuesday, Cal provided the Mercury News with a 75-minute DVD compilation of video material sent by Lyles.

Starting in Feb. ’09 and ending nearly a year later, he provided Cal with more than 30 videos of prospects in the class of 2010, a school official said."

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Hopefully, this last entry by Wilner would put all the crap slinging about Cal to sleep.

by Cali49a on Aug 10, 2011 8:36 AM PDT reply actions

Yes…and maybe SportsbyBrooks can shut his damned tweeting pie hole about how Cal is gonna be in trouble….. Chip Kelly is sadzzzz !!!!

by Cal_Fan2 on Aug 10, 2011 9:15 AM PDT reply actions

This report needed to happen, and I’m glad Cal did it. It still seems, to me, that Cal got very little for 5k (although that seems to be the going rate for these “recruiting info packages”).

Everyone knows how to contact top prospects and have seen enough highlight vids. It’s the one’s that have flown under the radar or the fringe prospect that really benefits from these recruiting agencies.

"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark

by carp on Aug 10, 2011 11:15 AM PDT reply actions

Cal only bought from Lyles for that one year, right? They may have thought it was a bad deal for the type/amount of information they got and decided to stop doing business with him.

by jali on Aug 10, 2011 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions

Tedford also said that the information included home addresses, phone numbers, and more importantly, cell phone numbers. You’re right though, the 4 and 5* kids are easy to find – but its the diamonds in the rough that these list are designed to locate.

Hans, Bubi, I'm your white knight!

by Vandalus on Aug 10, 2011 5:42 PM PDT up reply actions

From what I’ve read – they had worked with Lyles at his previous agency and when he spun off on his own, they had thought enough of him to take a flyer on his new one-person agency. However – maybe just the post partum – it seemed like they felt it wasn’t enough value for their 5k and discontinued the relationship. That’s what it seems like to me, at least.

by LeonPowe on Aug 10, 2011 6:54 PM PDT up reply actions

As Tedford also mentioned…it was half the price of the other service. If you were offered a 50% discount for the same information would you say no, when you are having budget issues in the Athletic Department and therefore need to conserve money when you can and use it for other purposes?

"Our hearts shall sing and our voices ring for the dear old Blue and Gold!"

by Joe Bandsmen on Aug 10, 2011 9:29 PM PDT up reply actions

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