A high school all-American defensive end from Mansfield, Texas, Nosa Eguae might have been a nice fit in Oregon?s football recruiting class this year.
At least that was the implied message in a ?2011 National Package? delivered to Oregon in March 2010 from Willie Lyles? Complete Scouting Service.
Too bad Eguae signed with Auburn 13 months before Lyles? package was sent to Oregon.
Eguae went on to start 14 games for Auburn as a redshirt freshman last season, including the BCS National Championship game against Oregon. He had four tackles, one for loss, against the Ducks.
Like Eguae, none of the 140 recruiting profiles Lyles provided for his ?2011 National Package? booklet, released Monday by the university in response to public records requests, was actually from the class of 2011.
Oregon?s connection with Lyles came under scrutiny this past March after media reports surfaced that the UO paid the alleged street agent $25,000, prompting an informal NCAA investigation into Oregon?s use of such recruiting services.
?For $25,000, it better provide a hell of a lot,? Scouting Evaluation Association founder Dick Lascola told SI.com in March. ?That?s an exorbitant amount of money to pay for something.?
What exactly Oregon received for $25,000 remains unclear.
In addition to the outdated recruiting packet, an Oregon spokesman said Monday that Lyles provided highlight videos of prospective recruits.
An e-mail with a link to a since-removed YouTube video was sent from Lyles to an Oregon administrator in 2010, but no other videos, or evidence of videos, were released Monday.
An Oregon spokesman said that?s because UO coaches typically file their videos under a recruit?s name, and they don?t document from whom they received the videos.
Lyles is described as a mentor to UO running backs LaMichael James and Lache Seastrunk. It would be an NCAA violation if it?s found that he received payment for steering either to join the Ducks.
On Feb. 22, 2010 ? 19 days after Seastrunk signed a letter of intent with Oregon ? Lyles sent the UO an invoice for $25,000. For that amount, Complete Scouting Service would provide its ?2011 National Package,? which would include ?Game Film and Highlight Film? from 22 states.
The final ?evaluation booklet? CSS provided included 140 profiles from six states; the vast majority of those recruits were from Texas and nearly every one of them was from the class of 2009.
The header for the package is ?2010 National High School Evaluation Booklet,? but all of the inside pages list ?Player Profiles 2011.?
One of the profiled recruits, Steve Williams, was a high school all-American defensive back from Dallas, Texas, who signed with California in February 2009.
As a redshirt freshman last fall, Williams had a career-high six tackles for the Bears against the Ducks in Berkeley.
Another profile featured Jazz Reynolds, a wide receiver from Houston who signed with Oklahoma in 2009.
Reynolds made headlines last fall after a controversial Twitter post got him booted from the Sooners football team.
Reynolds? first name, by the way, is spelled ?Jaz,? one of a handful of the recruits? names ? including Eguae?s ? that were misspelled in the CSS booklet. Other recruits appear to be listed from incorrect high schools.
One recruit appears to be profiled twice.
Another profile is redacted, presumably because that recruit signed with Oregon.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rgsports/~3/o0Lhyzwufi4/oregon-lyles-ducks-2011-recruits.html.csp
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