Will Lyles and Texas; "Scouting" at Alabama

[MaliBuckeye]

Sorry- ESPN linkage ahoy.

Despite learning months earlier that scout Willie Lyles had requested $3,000 from a University of Texas booster to ensure a recruit's visit, the Longhorn football program paid $15,000 to a recruiting service that employed Lyles in 2008-09, according to documents obtained by ESPN's "Outside the Lines."

When the Lyles scandal erupted in full last summer, one of the UT concerns was the amount of money being spent on football recruiting services. Athletic director DeLoss Dodds asked the question in an email after it was reported that Alabama had spent nearly $220,000 on a handful of different services.

Looks like the four letter network is OK giving full coverage into Texas now, LHN not withstanding.

Of course, they couldn't have picked a better week to release this story...

 

[Dryden]

Looks like the four letter network is OK giving full coverage into Texas now, LHN not withstanding.

Of course, they couldn't have picked a better week to release this story...

I won't dispute the motivation in the timing of this release, but the exodus of some of their most popular writers in just the last six months (Feldman, Neyer, Forde) speaks more to the grass roots effort from within to wrestle "journalism" back from the mothership.

The growth in social media such as Twitter (Whitlock) and satellite/syndicated radio (Patrick) is a second front. Simmons and other current and former "Page 2" writers are forging a third with Grantland -- which I think has been great.

You can only kick so many fanbases when they're down in pursuit of sensationalist ratings before you've kicked them all and they decide to kick back.

 

[BB73]

Never heard of Will Lyles. I knew of a Willie Lyles.

 

[GeorgiaBuck2]

Wild Willy!

 

[Muck]

Wild Willy!

Willys Jeeps never had horizontal grills.