H*****r 发帖数: 764 | 1 Chip Kelly exchanged text messages via cell phones with Willie Lyles on
numerous occasions while the current Oregon head coach was the offensive
coordinator of the Ducks, with the volume greatly decreasing since Kelly’s
elevation to run the program in March 2009.
Records released by the University of Oregon, in response to media requests,
show that Oregon coaches made or accepted 70 calls in a fourth-month period
that ended in March of 2010, when the football program paid $25,000 to
Lyles for outdated recruiting information just a few weeks after Texas
running back Lache Seastrunk signed with the Ducks.
Lyles had been serving as a mentor to Seastrunk.
The records of cell phone calls shows that Gary Campbell, the UO running
backs coach, made 27 calls to Lyles during that time and received 11 more
from Lyles, while Kelly’s cell phone showed only one call made to Lyles,
for a three-minute duration.
The UO records also show some 400 text messages exchanged between Lyles and
UO coaches over the past four years, the heaviest volume of those involving
Kelly at a time when he was still the offensive coordinator.
Kelly traded 12 texts with Lyles on the two days before Jan. 17, 2008, when
UO received a verbal commitment from LaMichael James, who has described
Lyles as an advisor.
There was also a flurry of seven texts sent by Kelly to Lyles’ number in
the wee hours of Oct. 17, 2008, the first of those sent at 12:30 a.m. Kelly
followed that with texts at 12:39 a.m. and 2:58 a.m. before Lyles responded
at 7:28 a.m. Kelly then sent another at 8:09 a.m. and received responses
from Lyles at 8:28 and 8:32 before Kelly sent texts at 10:29 and 10:31 a.m.
That date was a Friday during a bye week for the Ducks.
There was another early morning exchange between Kelly and Lyles six weeks
later, with Kelly receiving a text from Lyles at 10 minutes past midnight on
Dec. 1, 2008. Kelly sent a response at 12:54 a.m., and received a text back
from Lyles two minutes later. Lyles followed with another at 2:07 a.m.
before Kelly sent a text to Lyles at 2:09 a.m., followed by another two
minutes later.
On Dec. 2, 2008, the university announced that Kelly would succeed Mike
Bellotti as the head coach.
The records supplied by the UO showed that along with Campbell, assistant
coaches Mark Helfrich, John Neal and Scott Frost also made calls to Lyles
during the time frame in the media request, though Lyles only exchanged text
messages with Campbell and Kelly, based on the UO listing. |
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