Per Cowherd via Vince Doria, a Top Ten football

[ABQduck]

Two sources also confirmed to CBSSports.com that the NCAA is not looking at Thomas nor have they heard anything about an investigation into Oregon's football team. De'Anthony Thomas debunks Twitter rumors - CBSSports.com

That wont be clear enough for droski of course.

 

[HialeahGator]

WVU or SCjr if I had to guess.

 

[BearCat204]

That wont be clear enough for droski of course.

Just because CBS hasnt heard of it, doesnt mean that Oregon is not in the middle of this.

 

[BearCat204]

WVU or SCjr if I had to guess.

Neither of these programs are considered top 10, are they?

 

[UTVOL02]

Neither of these programs are considered top 10, are they?

Nothing gets by you.

 

[BearCat204]

Nothing gets by you.

Except the groundhog I have been trying to trap in my backyard for the last week

 

[droski]

Matt Hinton (DrSaturday) on Twitter

Link to thomas telling followers to follow him on the @theblaccster twitter account in Feb 24th.

 

[HialeahGator]

Colin is clueless but going by his 'hint" about "making TCU happy" then you could towards NikeU for a few reasons......recruiting in TX and missing the NC game bc of the Ducks.

 

[gorockytop101]

Documents: Oregon paid pair with ties to recruits - College Football - Rivals.com

ruh roh

 

[bam15]

nm

 

[gorockytop101]

nm

you learn to be quick on VN

but it's certainly a story worth 2 posts.

 

[gorockytop101]

Flenory said the payment to him was for a recruiting service that his company set up for Oregon. The package included names, birthdates and other info on potential recruits. Flenory said the package to Oregon was the only one ever sold by his company because “we stopped doing it because the NCAA said recruiting services could no longer do camps on college campuses. Because we were running camps, we decided that was a better business for us than to sell the recruiting packages.”

There still needs to be proof that these men steered recruits to Oregon. This guy (Flenory) said his company was only paid about 3k for information on recruits, so that seems logical. The other guy was paid 25k. I'm curious to hear the reasoning behind that.

 

[MaehlMan]

Twitter

It was within NCAA rules.
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[gorockytop101]

Twitter

It was within NCAA rules.
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Any word as to what the payment was for?

 

[MaehlMan]

Any word as to what the payment was for?

I'm not sure on details at this point.
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[UGADawg4Life]

According to Cowherd Tennessee is not a top 12 program, but would be in 15 minutes if UT hired the right coach.
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Who's he got in mind? Good coaches are a dime-a-dozen, great coaches...............not so much.

 

[gorockytop101]

Sources: NCAA probes man who sent players to Oregon - ESPN

This story goes into more details.

 

[tri_vol]

When kiff was here he said ut would be title contenders in a couple years. That is a good coach in his opinion.
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[VolDad]

Twitter

It was within NCAA rules.
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Unfortunately for you, it does not matter that he thinks the payments were within the rules, it only matters if the NCAA thinks so.

 

[gorockytop101]

I wonder how much UT spends on recruiting services.

 

[MaehlMan]

Unfortunately for you, it does not matter that he thinks the payments were within the rules, it only matters if the NCAA thinks so.

Yep. You're right. Fortunately, we aren't hiding anything, and it seems within the rules.
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[VolDad]

Yep. You're right. Fortunately, we aren't hiding anything, and it seems within the rules.
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You can tell that how?

 

[MaehlMan]

You can tell that how?

Let me rephrase that, then.

We aren't hiding the fact that we paid these guys, or the amounts paid.
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[VolDad]

Let me rephrase that, then.

We aren't hiding the fact that we paid these guys, or the amounts paid.
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Weren’t they found with the states open records law?

 

[gorockytop101]

Let me rephrase that, then.

We aren't hiding the fact that we paid these guys, or the amounts paid.
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That's one thing that stuck out to me. These were public records. If it was anything remotely shady, would they have been stupid enough to put in on their list of expenses?