re: Cowherd announces a major football program about to get busted

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I'm late to the party. What is going on?

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page after craptastic page of absolutely nothing

Dude on a Texas A&M board is saying it is definitely Oregon..........so, my money is on Clemson.

I've heard from three people that Oregon did something with Seastrunk. None of the three people are all that connected to anything, so I am assuming they heard the same rumors that are circulating on this board.

ugh, I dunno, Missouri maybe?

Yes, they all should be. But we know some programs are "more equal than others". The state of Oregon has already had its fill of cheaters and miscreants (JailBlazers) - if this is bad and true, Oregon can kiss their fans goodbye.

yall figure out he was talking about LSU yet? Its why that one receiver went over to auburn, he said he wanted no part of a dirty program.

Again, for what it's worth - The Oregonian writer who posted about this on the Oregonlive website really does NOT like the Ducks. He also said he spoke at length with Chip Kelly and others at Oregon who denied being contacted by the NCAA and denied being contacted by Sports Illustrated. You'd think if this was SI and they were going to run with a story they would contact the offending program for comment on it.

On the flip side, before Cowherd was a national personality he worked at KGW Portland Oregon.

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Oregon and Baron Cortez Flenory, Jr.

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I'm reading on the shag that its us:

[/quote]Meet Baron Flenory

Let’s use former personal trainer turned street agent Will Lyles’ business model as an example to show you how a guy like Baron can become a successful street agent just a year and a half removed from working at Scout.com.

Spread out the states you operate in and which schools you funnel players to.

Notice the diverse representation among SEC schools from Will Lyles’ roster of satisfied customers?

Patrick Peterson – LSU
RJ Jackson – LSU
Brandon Lafell – LSU
Terrence Tolliver – LSU
(seeing a theme here?)
Lache Seastrunk – Oregon (misdirection! I see what you did there.)
Shaun Lewis – Oklahoma State
Toney Hurd – Oklahoma State
Ahmad Dixon – Baylor Tennessee Baylor wins!
Mike Goodson – A&M
Martellus Bennett – A&M
Trent Richardson – Bama
Reggie Bush – USC
Joe McNight – USC
Trevon Randle – LSU

Keep your friends close and your fellow street agents closer.

The SEC is a street agent’s playground, except in this one the suspect adults chasing after kids are actually welcome. They may have a gentleman’s agreement to stick to a certain region (Lyles owns Houston and generally sends them East save for the occasional shipment to USC or Oregon). Through covering blue chip recruit Corey Nelson at Skyline during his recruitment in 2009, Flenory gained traction as a trusted advisor at a school that churns out 5-7 BCS level athletes every year. Is there a coincidence that 2012 Dallas Skyline LB Peter Jinkens just announced Oregon as his co-leader with Texas A&M? Not from this angle.
Mix up your playlist.

To ward off the relentless hounds from the NCAA, street agents play the field coast to coast. It’s always wise to send one of your top prospects across the country, perhaps to a school with deep pockets backed by a shoe company that can dazzle impressionable young studs with a PlayStation offense featured on primetime ESPN programming every week. What’s not to love? Their lockers are re-stocked with new shoes every week and uniforms to match. Mom can watch them on TV as true freshmen, plugged into the system to create Instant Offense. USC works too though. Certainly enough for Joe McKnight to flee Bayou Country for Troy the night before signing day.

But you won’t get anywhere in the Street Agent game without connections in the SEC.

Life preservation is critical so do your bidding wisely. No meetings in riverboat casinos, bayou john boats, or within 100 miles of Shreveport. Cheating is seamlessly ingrained into SEC culture to the point where the NCAA is afraid to even open pandora’s cigar box. Exhibit A: Albert Means. Exhibit T: Cam Newton. Exhibits B-S: Classified. Do your best to keep it that way or it might be a short career.

Find your niche.

Lyles got his start through Speed Dynamics, a personal training outfit of Houston that grew to become much more than that. But this part Flenory already has down. Kids across the nation are flocking to his Badger Sports Elite 7-on-7 Camps, which feature regional all-star teams compiled of top national prospects squaring off against eachother, knowing coaches like Pete Carroll, Gene Chizik, Rich Rodriguez, Chip Kelly, Bob Stoops, and Lane Kiffin will likely be there. Or at least the one in Vegas. Flenory has also hosted camps on the campuses of Rutgers, Tennessee, Michigan, UNLV, Alabama, and San Diego State. Can a tournament in Baton Rouge be far away?

Some of the “guest coaches” at these events are none other than guys like Will Lyles. Apparently Lyles’ coaching didn’t end after that tournament in Vegas, and both Baylor University and Ahmad Dixon thank him for seeing things through.

Pete Carroll and USC thank you too, Mr. Lyles.

Flenory first got the idea for these national AAU-style camps after hosting a skills competition for local prospects from New York and New Jersey on the Rutgers campus in 2007. They decided to have a scrimmage towards the end and couldn’t help but notice how invested each side became in winning. Oklahoma-bound WR DeJuan Miller caught a long game-winning TD and the place erupted. That was all Baron needed to see. New Level Athletics was founded shortly thereafter.

In 2008, Flenory took a job as midwestern scouting director for Scout.com, which would give him access to hundreds prospects (Wallace, for example), coaches, and agents. Scout sponsored New Level’s first series of national passing camps in the Spring of 2008, helping New Level gain instant exposure in the recruiting combine scene. A year later he left Scout to ramp up New Level full-time with his partner and brother-in-law, Kashann Simmons. It didn’t take very long. After inking a sponsorship with apparel maker Badger Sports (Under Armour grew famous through similar inroads), Flenory used those contacts to ramp up the first series of regional all- star tournaments just a month later in March, 2009.



Florida celebrates a win over Bama

Where did the first Badgersports national 7-on-7 tournament take place? Tuscaloosa, of all places, in 2009. Things went so well it was held there again this year. While it’s against NCAA rules for a university to host kids on an official visit while participating in one of these tournaments, the school’s facilities serve as a weekend-long pitch to become the next Marcel Dareus or Trent Richardson.

Speaking of Dareus, did you happen to notice how quietly Dareus’ agent run-in disappeared? Dareus’ eligibility at Alabama was never in jeapordy. His punishment for accepting $2,000 in benefits from an agent during two trips to Miami last summer was a two-game suspension. The NCAA is never going to drop the hammer on the SEC now that multi-billion dollar contracts are in place to ensure the stability of the nation’s best conference. And don’t be surprised if sanctions against Cam Newton are conveniently delivered after he’s gone from the High Plains, assuming any get handed down at all. The pay to play system has plausible deniability built in for all participants. You’re only now hearing about the Son of a Preacher Man scandal because a disgruntled QB prospect that didn’t get paid and others like Urban Meyer had axes to grind. [/quote]

just saw that. sonofabitch

Please God let it be a non SEC school on this one