Documents provide details on Oregon Ducks, Willie Lyles
The University of Oregon released documents Tuesday that detailed some aspects of investigations that the NCAA and the school itself are undertaking into possible recruiting violations by the UO football program.
The NCAA is known to have been examining Oregon's relationship with Houston talent scout
Willie Lyles, who has advisor/mentor relationships with a number of current and former Oregon players, including running backs Tra Carson, LaMichael James, Lache Seastrunk and Dontae Williams.
The documents include scouting service reports, the cell phone records of Oregon coach Chip Kelly and an invoice from the law firm Bond, Schoeneck & King, which is
conducing Oregon's internal investigation, for work done in September. Both Kelly's cell records and the invoice were heavily redacted. The firm charged Oregon $5,758.26 for September, according to the invoice.
Also included was correspondence from attorney Michael Glazier, a partner in Bond, Schoeneck & King, indicating that he expected the firm to conclude it internal investigation by November of this year at the latest, and correspondence relating to NCAA interviews with Lyles.
The school released email exchanges between Glazier, Ron Barker, Pac-12 associate commissioner for governance and enforcement; Steve Duffin, NCAA associate director of enforcement; Angie Cretors, NCAA associate director of agents, gambling and amateurism activities; Bill Clever, UO executive assistant athletic director for compliance, and James O'Fallon, UO law professor emeritus and the athletic department's faculty rep, about interviews with UO coach Chip Kelly, and Josh Gibson and Jim Fisher, both assistant directors for football operations.
The interviews apparently were conducted in August by video conference.
The records, which were released in response to public records requests by The Oregonian and other news outlets, indicated that the school has received no formal notice of inquiry from the NCAA.
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Williford said Oregon has not received a notice of allegations from the NCAA. A notice of allegations would be the next step for the NCAA if its investigation concludes that Oregon had broken rules.
The documents made public by the university also detailed the amounts that the university paid various scouting services.
A key issue in the Lyles case is whether the $25,000 the school paid Lyles for a national scouting package was in line with what it paid other scouting services for similar work. Previously released documents showed that the national package only included information on prospects from a handful of states and much of that information was out of date. The package also included videos.
Invoices released to The Oregonian Tuesday showed that at least one other scouting service billed Oregon $25,000. The invoice from Digital Sports Video Inc. of Aliso Viejo, Calif., date Sept. 2, 2010, charged Oregon $25,000 for a ?2010 Player Direct Subscription.?
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