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BB73;1941205; said:
Yeah, I didn't click the ESPN link to read the article.

Apparently the employee that rented the car is named Mindy Schmidling, who said that she was told another player besides Harris would be driving. She is a 'payroll specialist' in the Business Affairs Office at the U of Oregon.

SI.com

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Something tells me that "payroll" isn't the only thing she specializes in
 
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BB73;1941205; said:
Yeah, I didn't click the ESPN link to read the article.

Apparently the employee that rented the car is named Mindy Schmidling, who said that she was told another player besides Harris would be driving. She is a 'payroll specialist' in the Business Affairs Office at the U of Oregon.

SI.com

Her facebook picture:

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Payroll bunnies! I bet she has a nice set of Nikes...
 
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BB73;1941205; said:
Yeah, I didn't click the ESPN link to read the article.

Apparently the employee that rented the car is named Mindy Schmidling, who said that she was told another player besides Harris would be driving. She is a 'payroll specialist' in the Business Affairs Office at the U of Oregon.

SI.com

Her facebook picture:

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If your going to take a picture of yourself, make sure you remove the bottle of little blue pills in the drawer first.
 
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In the interest of comparing how national college football media sites are treating this story, the Ducks are getting blasted by CBS and SI.

Since all of the written information was out of date, if Chip Kelly told the NCAA that it was worthwhile recruiting information, he could get nailed for lying to the NCAA.

The written info was worthless, but video was also included. However, the folks at Oregon said that they couldn't provide the video data to fulfill the FOIA requests since it was intermixed with other videos and they were no longer able to distinguish it. But if the video was for 2009 recruits and was provided in February of 2010, it also was 2 years out of date.

CBS

Ducks' dated recruiting data: Ripoff or cover-up?

EUGENE, Ore. -- Oregon can't be this dumb. It just can't.

In documents released Monday, it looks like Oregon ordered a recruiting service with more filler than cut-rate cat food. Will Lyles' $25,000 tab for his celebrated national recruiting service in 2010 could be the college football equivalent of Capone's vault.

That would be merely negligent if Lyles weren't the face of the non-scholarship, third-party influence that the NCAA is attempting to put out of business. It would be easy to ignore if the media's Freedom of Information Act requests of Oregon documents lately weren't the legal equivalent of LaMichael James -- swift and prolific.

None of it would mean much if Lyles weren't the mentor of Oregon tailback Lache Seastrunk, who was purported to be the next big thing when he signed with the Ducks last year. Now Lyles is toxic. LSU coach Les Miles had to go out of his way to disassociate himself from the Houston-based trainer in April.

That five-figure payment for Lyles' recruiting service came less than a month after Seastrunk signed. See why the NCAA is interested? With the hottest, fastest rising football program in the country already under NCAA scrutiny, it seems clear there is more negativity coming for Ducks football.

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Judging by the service's quality, a skeptic could conclude that it was hastily cut, pasted and shipped just so Oregon had something in hand to show for its $25,000.

But, again, Oregon can't possibly be that dumb.

It's entirely possible that Oregon merely overpaid for an inferior product. That would be nothing more than a mistake. But reasonable people could logically assume that

Oregon has gotten into the sordid business of buying players. Seastrunk was one of the best tailbacks in the 2010 recruiting class. Lyles was Seastrunk's mentor in Temple, Texas. One report said Lyles lived with Seastrunk's mother during the athlete's senior year.

Until the NCAA examines the (alleged) crime scene here, there's a long way to go. There's really no hard and fast rule to determine how much is too much to pay for a recruiting service. Oregon could admit that mistake on Tuesday by saying it bought a dated service package.

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The Price is Wrong, Ducks

If my life depended on the outcome of one Price is Right game played by someone else, I would pray that no one screamed, "Oregon football staff, come on down!" ....

Because when they bought what Will Lyles was selling, they got righteously ripped off. You already know the Ducks paid $25,000 to Houston-based Lyles shortly after National Signing Day in 2010. You already know that the school's official position was that the money paid for a 2011 "national scouting package" from Lyles' Complete Scouting Services that included videos and information about prospects in the signing class of 2011. You also know the school's position was that the payment had nothing to do with Temple, Texas, tailback Lache Seastrunk, who signed with Oregon shortly before the check was cut and with whom Lyles had a close relationship.

Monday, in response to open records requests by the Eugene Register-Guard and The Oregonian, Oregon released a wealth of documents pertaining to Lyles. One of those contained the "2010 National High School Evaluation Booklet," which on its inside pages contained what it claimed are "Player Profiles 2011." School officials claimed the videos are jumbled with hundreds from other sources in the football program's computer system, so they couldn't figure out which came from Lyles and which came from other sources. So they didn't produce any videos.

Curious as to what exactly those Oregon coaches got for their 25-grand investment? If the booklet (posted here by The Oregonian) is any indication, they got hosed. Let us count the ways:

- All the players profiled were members of the class of 2009.
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Oregon spokesman Dave Williford said late Monday that he had forwarded all questions about the booklet to the compliance office, but he didn't expect an answer Monday. Now the Ducks are thinking. It will take time to weave a tale that will explain all this in a satisfactory manner.

My money is on this excuse: The booklet was a sample, sent by Lyles to illustrate what the real thing might look like. If Oregon comes back with that, the next questions will come quickly.

- So, based on an incomplete, possibly plagiarized sample, your football program paid Lyles $25,000 (an amount legitimate recruiting service provider Dick Lascola told SI.com "better provide a hell of a lot.")?

- So where is the real material? (It had better be produced within nanoseconds, or everyone will assume something fishy.)

- Is this the same story you gave the NCAA?

That's the key question now. What did coach Chip Kelly and his staff tell NCAA investigators when they asked earlier this year about the payment to Lyles?
"Most programs purchase recruiting services," Kelly told ESPN.com in March. "Our compliance office is aware of it. Will has a recruiting service that met NCAA rules and we used him in 2010."

If the booklet isn't a sample, then that statement could land Kelly in real trouble -- especially if he used it with NCAA investigators as well as the media. Why would a program pay $25,000 in 2010 for information about recruits who signed with schools in February 2009? Unless Lyles can somehow bend space and time. Then Oregon got a bargain.

Even if the payment was for something else, investigators probably couldn't have proved the Ducks broke any 2010-vintage NCAA rule regarding scouting services. But that only holds true if Lyles produced something resembling a legitimate product. If Kelly or any of his coaches tried to pass off the booklet released Monday as legitimate, NCAA investigators might consider that a fib on the level of, say, claiming a recruit wasn't at a cookout at a coach's house when he actually was or, possibly, conveniently forgetting to mention that series of e-mails about the tattoo parlor. Ask former Tennessee basketball coach Bruce Pearl and former Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel how those fibs turned out for them. It's relatively unclear whether any NCAA rule in 2010 could prohibit a school from paying a recruiting service $1 million, much less $25,000. But it's crystal clear that in 2010, the NCAA rulebook forbade lying to the NCAA.

Maybe Lyles fulfilled the bulk of his order with video. For Oregon's sake, it had better not be video of the players profiled in the booklet. If Lyles indeed sent video of actual 2011 prospects from across the nation, then the Ducks must figure out exactly what he sent and present it to the NCAA and to the news organizations that have waited patiently for the school to fill legitimate open records requests. If they can do that, they have nothing to fear.

If that isn't the case, then Oregon needs a whopper of a story to explain all this. Timing limits Oregon's excuse parameters. The Register-Guard requested documents received between Feb. 1, 2010 and March 4, 2011. That only allows for a 22-day window between the receipt of any sample and the receipt of Lyles' invoice. (According to school records, Oregon paid in full on March 29, 2010.)

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muffler dragon;1943238; said:
I disagree. That there lawman uses his tongue every bit as well as Mrs. Katt for $10.
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Alleging that BK's wife accepts payment for sexual services is way out of line here.

Too many of us already know that she never charges a dime.
 
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