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."
10 months ago
Avinash Kunnath
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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
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.
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























































