Street Agents?

[Elduderino]

That dude on the Husky board found someone to indulge his emails

Mr. Ken Goe linked this morning

http://recruitocosm.fantake.com/2010/12 ... ill-lyles/


Not exactly ideal exposure.

[karlhungis]

That's a pretty slimy article.

[Duck07]

I saw something similar about a week ago. Basically, we MUST be doing something wrong if a former player of Chips at NH is giving Chip a heads up about players in Tx.

[buckmarkduck]

Isn't that the same Baron guy the one who said the famous 97% chance:)? He has no ties to UO so why would anyone say he's sending players our way, and even if he is telling kids about UO we obviously aren't paying anyone because we lost out on more than we have gotten?

It seems to me like sour grapes by Texas football fans who don't like their in state talent leaving.

[Bigducker]

Isn't that the same Baron guy the one who said the famous 97% chance:)? He has no ties to UO so why would anyone say he's sending players our way, and even if he is telling kids about UO we obviously aren't paying anyone because we lost out on more than we have gotten?

It seems to me like sour grapes by Texas football fans who don't like their in state talent leaving.

Yep. 97.5% sure.

[maxduck]

What a POS bunch of drivel. Nothing but innuendo written to look like fact without an ounce of proof. Below is a prime example.

For every Anthony Wallace, there’s a Tajh Boyd. Flenory got to know the 5 star QB out of Virginia very well while working at Scout. After Flenory posted on Oregon message boards that Boyd was a lock to the Ducks, a few days later he commited to Clemson, admitting somewhat innocently at the press conference he had no idea where he was going until ten minutes before the announcement, when presumably a call came in. It’s not unlike an NFL agent calling his client from the draft to tell him what team he’ll be playing for. The tangible difference is 3-4 zero’s on the check. And that’s one Flenory certainly didn’t collect on. But someone tied to Clemson likely did.

[Duck07]

What a POS bunch of drivel. Nothing but innuendo written to look like fact without an ounce of proof. Below is a prime example.

For every Anthony Wallace, there’s a Tajh Boyd. Flenory got to know the 5 star QB out of Virginia very well while working at Scout. After Flenory posted on Oregon message boards that Boyd was a lock to the Ducks, a few days later he commited to Clemson, admitting somewhat innocently at the press conference he had no idea where he was going until ten minutes before the announcement, when presumably a call came in. It’s not unlike an NFL agent calling his client from the draft to tell him what team he’ll be playing for. The tangible difference is 3-4 zero’s on the check. And that’s one Flenory certainly didn’t collect on. But someone tied to Clemson likely did.

You know whats even better about this quote, this ^ NFL teams don't call the agent, they call the player directly. The agent only deals with the contract and either the HC or GM makes that call

[buckmarkduck]

And really, this is still by far a much less corrupt system then what goes on in college basketball recruiting, with AAU coaches and guys like WWW and controlling where the players go.

[Sooth]

am i really supposed to take an article written by Geez shuttlesworth as gospel?

i didn't know he was that Geez.

seriously, why would the oregonian even link to this? their standard of journalism has sunk even lower than when i stopped reading them 5 years ago.

i didn't know that was possible.

[woundedknees]

In the response column, Blake B said:

December 10th, 2010 at 3:14 pm

“If Okie State is using street agents, why do they never have a top 25 class? Are they not doing it right?”

Because they don’t have enough money and not all recruits are street types. Is this that complicated of a topic?

T. Bone Pickens would scratch his head in wonder at the insight of this post...

[wheaton4prez]

Damned street bloggers.

[MFRDuckFan]

Must be a pretty slow day for Ken Goe. His tactics & articles have bothered me for awhile now. On the surface you think he likes Oregon, but then constantly sensationalizes practice (LMJ's ankle injury) & links to this type of material. He's falling into the Clownzano category as far as I'm concerned.

It's obvious the camps are legal so everything else is just heresay. Also, since we have such deep pockets with Phil, we'd have the best recruiting class in the country every single year...........it doesn't hold water.

[chapelhillduck]

What gets me is the sanctimonious nature of Texas fans in the comments. It seems to me that EVERYONE does some stuff behind the scenes. I think I'm ok with it as long as it's legal (and more power to those that find loopholes). I would bet any amount of money that no school is clean, some are just dirtier than others.

[greenyellow]

What gets me is the sanctimonious nature of Texas fans in the comments. It seems to me that EVERYONE does some stuff behind the scenes. I think I'm ok with it as long as it's legal (and more power to those that find loopholes). I would bet any amount of money that no school is clean, some are just dirtier than others.

No school's fans should be accusing another school of doing something since more than likely, their school is just as guilty. Every school has it's questionable practices, but they are probably getting about 90-95% of their recruits through proper means.

[Duck07]

take the comic books we made a few years back. there wasn't anything "that" bad about them but once the ncaa said, "that's crossing the line a bit" we stopped. same with when we used to fly recruits in on a private plan - the ncaa told us (and others) to stop that practice and we did. the people from texas are just pissed that we keep taking their best players, hahaha