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发帖数: 764 | 1 NCAA asks Oregon for documents
March, 4, 2011
By Ted Miller
Oregon released a statement Friday evening saying that, after contacting the
Pac-10 office about its use of recruiting scouting services that has come
under NCAA scrutiny, "the athletics department has been asked by the NCAA to
provide documents related to the purchase of services provided by scouting
agencies contracted by the school’s football program."
“We have been asked to provide a series of documents by the NCAA and intend
to fully cooperate,” athletic director Rob Mullens said in the statement.
“I reiterate that it is our belief that the purchase of such services is
within the allowable NCAA guidelines.” (Mullens forgot to mention the
uncomfortable fact that their payment to Lyles - a newcomer to running a
service - was the most they have ever paid an individual scout.)
Oregon provided the NCAA Bylaws with which it believes it is in compliance:
NCAA Bylaw 13.14.3 states that an “institution may subscribe to a
recruiting or scouting service involving prospective student-athletes,
provided the institution does not purchase more than one annual subscription
to a particular service and the service: (Adopted: 1/1/02, Revised: 1/16/10)
(a) Is made available to all institutions desiring to subscribe and at the
same fee rate for all subscribers;
(b) Publicly identifies all applicable rates;
Some potential problems here as well, since 1) Lyles didn't have a website (
nor perhaps even a "business" set up) to offer this service when he first
negotiated his 1st sale - which I assume occurred sometime between 12/19/09
- Seastrunk's UO visit and 2/22/10 - the Invoice date.
2) And, even more damningly, that website didn't even list the $25K price
that the ducks paid, until...........today!?!?!
(c) Disseminates information (e.g., reports, profiles) about prospective
student-athletes at least four times per calendar year;
(d) Publicly identifies the geographical scope of the service (e.g., local,
regional, national) and reflects broad-based coverage of the geographical
area in the information it disseminates;
(e) Provides individual analysis beyond demographic information or rankings
for each prospective student-athlete in the information it disseminates; (
Revised: 4/13/10)
Not sure what the old rule was, since the invoice predates this revision.
However, the ducks Invoice and P.O. only called for Video - no demographic
or other info listed at all.
(f) Provides access to samples or previews of the information it
disseminates before purchase of a subscription; and
Will be very interesting to see what the duckies pull out to show here. I
hope it's backed up with shipping dates, etc. because this dude was "in
business" less than 2 months before they were invoiced for product.
(g) Provides video that is restricted to regularly scheduled (regular-season
) high school, preparatory school or two-year college contests and for which
the institution made no prior arrangements for recording. (Note: This
provision is applicable only if the subscription includes video services.) |
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