Goodbye, 2010 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON - twas a great year,

I think its ridiculous that Adidas straight up stole the idea from Nike, but it doesnt really bother me. What bothers me is instead of Adidas jacking Nike's idea, how about yall come up with the next big thing? I know yall have a research and development department. Adidas will always be 2nd or 3rd place in athletic apparel. When was the last time Adidas had an original idea? Like if you want to compete with Nike, come out with something worth a damn!
 
Adidas adizero scorch cleats are better than anything Nike has produced since speed/vapors. I'd even say theyre way better,

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lightest football cleat on earth

Adidas also jumped up with their techfit jerseys.

OF course the adidas  have to keep up with Nike schools so when the kids ask about gloves like Bama and the U, they gotta produce some. 
 
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OF course the adidas  have to keep up with Nike schools so when the kids ask about gloves like Bama and the U, they gotta produce some. 
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I get that, but instead of producing the exact same idea, why not do something different with the gloves? I dont know what that "difference" is, but instead of biting the idea, why dont you become the trendsetter?
 
adskjladshafhdshfhads Lyles gettin his snitch on and rightfully so.

Oregon tried to throw him under the bus
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btw, Everyone uses recruiting services.

its just not everyone has a Willie Lyles who's actually steering kids to schools
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Originally Posted by Scott Frost

Wonder how much L$U was offering Lache Seastrunk's mother that she was adamant he attend there.
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i've been thinking this.  from all i've read it seems it's not clear to anyone WHY she wanted him to go there so bad, but Lache kept saying it was because of selfish/exploitative reasons.
 
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Lyles going scorched Earth on Oregon...
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A&M lost NT LeMarc Strahan to grade issues... Looks like he'll stay at Blinn in the fall and come to A&M in the spring. Sucks, he woulda been huge for them. Brandon Alexander may be looking at the JUCO route, too. Wonder if they can get that check returned...

Nebraska CB Charles Jackson is having issues as well.
 
Nobody else threw him under the bus like Oregon did...

A&M hasn't said a word about dude through all this. LSU neither. Okie State, Auburn, none of them have said a word about dude.
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[table][tr][td][h1]Cheating for Dummies: Your guide to smarter NCAA rule-breaking[/h1][/td][td]
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[h2]Scandals at Oregon, etc. make it clear coaches have forgotten how to cheat[/h2][h2]The simplest but most important rule schools must follow: always pay cash[/h2][h2]Consider these seven rules a public service to dishonest coaches everywhere[/h2][/td][/tr][/table]
Reading the nuclear bomb Yahoo! Sports dropped on the Oregon football program July 1, I couldn't help but think of Jerry Springer. Last year, the White Trash Whisperer appeared on Comedy Central's roast of David Hasselhoff. Comedian Jeff Ross, during his roasting of his fellow roasters, brought up the most embarrassing moment of Springer's former life as mayor of Cincinnati. "Who the hell pays a @@%$!+ with a personal check?" Ross said. "That's like -- paying a @@%$!+ with a personal check."

Oregon's program sits in the NCAA's cross hairs because the athletic department paid scouting service operator/recruiting middleman Will Lyles -- who essentially admitted to Yahoo! Sports that he acted as a street agent -- with a $25,000 check. North Carolina's football program has a date with the NCAA's Committee on Infractions because former defensive tackle Marvin Austin got too descriptive on Twitter. Jim Tressel is currently unemployed because of a series of e-mails. Bruce Pearl isn't coaching basketball at Tennessee because someone snapped a photo of a recruit at Pearl's house, which was inconvenient since Pearl told the NCAA the recruit hadn't been at his house. USC's depth chart is thinner than Kate Moss because no one bothered to pay off the wannabe agents who kept Reggie Bush and his family living the good life while Bush played for the Trojans. All these cases point to a serious crisis in college sports.

MANDEL: Kelly not doing things 'right way'

Coaches and administrators have forgotten how to cheat. These things used to be taken care of with a few hundreds rolled into a handshake and a job for mom at the tractor factory down the road from the school. Now, it's amateur hour.

This isn't rocket science, people. The NCAA has what amounts to subpoena power over current athletes and current university employees. That's it. The NCAA's rules don't apply to anyone else. That opens an almost infinite array of cheating opportunities completely undetectable by the NCAA's enforcement cops. If you get caught cheating, you got caught because you're incredibly stupid.

So, as a public service to dishonest coaches everywhere, I'm offering these seven simple rules that will guarantee your clandestine activities will never rise above the level of message-board wives tale. Just think of it as NCAA Cheating for Dummies.
[h3]1. Always pay cash[/h3]
This should seem simple enough. Cash is mostly untraceable. As long as it isn't deposited in unusually large quantities into the account of a player or a player's parent, the NCAA will not find it. Paper trails lead to trouble. When Oregon coach Chip Kelly agreed to pay Lyles for a bogus scouting service, Kelly probably didn't know that every University of Oregon transaction is published on the state of Oregon's website. He knows now. So don't use checks, wire transfers, gift certificates or any other form of currency. Don't even make anonymous donations to a handler's 501(c)3 charitable foundation, even though I know you basketball cheaters do this all the time. Simply use some of that green paper with Ben Franklin's face on it, and the NCAA will be none the wiser as long as you follow my other rules.
[h3]2. Nothing in writing[/h3]
No major college football or basketball coach should have an e-mail address. If he does, he should never use it. That way, when a do-gooder such as former Ohio State player Chris Cicero sends an e-mail about the star quarterback and star receiver trading memorabilia for cash and tattoos, the head coach can be completely honest when he tells the NCAA: "I never saw that." If Tressel had ignored his e-mail during his Ohio State tenure, he'd still have a job. This rule applies to players, too. If an agent gives one of your players a South Beach shopping spree or a VIP night at some club that charges $12 for a Bud Light, make sure your players know better than to narrate in real time the receipt of impermissible benefits on Twitter or Facebook.
[h3]3. Everyone gets paid[/h3]
Keep the circle tight, and pay everyone in the circle. Why did Alabama get caught buying Albert Means from his high school coach? Because an assistant who was part of the scheme didn't get his cut and ran to a newspaper. Why did USC get savaged by the Committee on Infractions? Because Bush was too greedy to pay Lloyd Lake the $300,000 he owed him, and the geniuses in charge at Heritage Hall decided that instead of passing the hat among the boosters and paying the man, they'd take their chances with the NCAA. Millions of dollars, 30 lost scholarships and two lost bowl games later, any able-bodied student at USC has a chance of cracking the Trojans' depth chart this season. Why did Lyles flip on Oregon and spill his guts to Yahoo! Sports? Because he was supposed to get another $25,000, and Oregon didn't pay. Always, always, always pay everyone. Which brings us to rule No. 4.
[h3]4. Always pay cash[/h3]
I really can't stress this enough. If you deal with middlemen, one probably will blackmail you at some point. If you've followed these rules, you can blackmail him right back. The average street agent isn't going to report thousands in cash payments on his Form 1040. The NCAA can't subpoena a street agent's bank records and major purchase history, but the IRS can. Remind your middleman that while you may lose your job, you'll take him down with you with a strategically placed call to the 202 area code. An IRS investigation would allow the NCAA to piggyback and obtain public records to use against the street agent, so on top of the threat of fines and jail time, the street agent's business would dry up as other coaches shy away from another scandal waiting to happen. Besides, you won't be in hock to the middleman forever. The NCAA's statute of limitations is only four years.
[h3]5. Plausible deniability is your greatest ally[/h3]
Butch Davis' name doesn't appear in the NCAA's notice of allegations against North Carolina despite what appears to be widespread corruption in the football program. That's because Davis -- as far as we know -- built enough walls to keep himself from getting tarred. Young assistants, remember this and you'll go far. The head coach never meets the money guy. He never meets the handler. He never meets the agent runners. All business is conducted through assistants and lower-level employees. That way, no one can count phone calls between the coach and the handler on phone lines whose records are public because of state open records laws. We know exactly how many times Tressel corresponded with Terrelle Pryor's handler, Ted Sarniak, and we know exactly how many times Oregon's Kelly called or texted Lyles. Head coaches, whatever you do, DON'T SEND THE HANDLER A HANDWRITTEN NOTE THANKING HIM FOR "ORCHESTRATING" SOMETHING. I'm looking at you, Chip Kelly. Follow this rule, and you can escape a scandal by sacrificing an assistant or an athletic department employee. Just remember the sacrificial lambs always must get paid. How do you pay the sacrificial lamb? See rule Nos. 1 and 4.
[h3]6. Use a burner[/h3]
Coaches, the NCAA knows about your bat phone. (Your wife probably does, too.) This is the personal phone you use when you want to get around the NCAA's worthless rule against texting recruits. If you get called to the carpet by the enforcement staff, they'll request the records for your work phone and your bat phone. That's why you need third, fourth, fifth and sixth phones. If you must violate Rule No. 5, take a lesson from The Wire and employ a disposable, untraceable-by-the-NCAA prepaid phone to call your favorite bagman, handler or fixer. To make sure this phone isn't traceable, see rule No. 7.
[h3]7. Always pay cash[/h3]
Because who the hell pays a street agent with a university-issued check? That's like -- paying a street agent with a university-issued check.
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Y'all should listen the Jason Whitlock's podcast with Willie Lyles a couple months back. He wasn't singing these tunes
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Originally Posted by November33rd

That's last year's model gunna.

Adidas has the new one called the 5 star out now that's even lighter.

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But they dont LOOK better than Nike's stuff. I'd love to see adidas do something like checkerboard trim on the armholes, necklines of the Vols jerseys. Then a single checkerboard stripe down the pants.That would be
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Oregon getting hit with NCAA sanctions would be the biggest victory ever for Oregon State football.

I fully expect them to build a statue of Will Lyles outside of Reser Stadium.
 
Originally Posted by dreClark

I'm hearing UGA is next on the list. No way you guys land in-state talent that other teams actually want w/o some sort of bribery....


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Can I get a 'Deal Wit It' gif of Deanthony Thomas crying when he committed? 
 
Originally Posted by HankMoody

Y'all should listen the Jason Whitlock's podcast with Willie Lyles a couple months back. He wasn't singing these tunes
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of course not. Oregon tried to kick the chair out from under  him so he started coming with the Raw
 
Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT

Originally Posted by HankMoody

Y'all should listen the Jason Whitlock's podcast with Willie Lyles a couple months back. He wasn't singing these tunes
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of course not. Oregon tried to kick the chair out from under  him so he started coming with the Raw
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#imjustsayin
#credibilitymatters

#gameismessedup

#iwillstopnow
 
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Oregon getting hit with NCAA sanctions would be the biggest victory ever for Oregon State football.

I fully expect them to build a statue of Will Lyles outside of Reser Stadium.
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It'd have to made out of tin foil or cow pies... this place BROKE!!
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Inside Carolina breaks down the events surrounding Michael McAdoo’s lawsuit against UNC and the NCAA, beginning with his enrollment in the summer of 2008 and ending with his court filing last Friday.
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Summer 2008 -- McAdoo enrolls as a full-time student at North Carolina to play football. The school’s Deparment of Arts and Sciences assigns then-student Jennifer Wiley to work with McAdoo as his academic tutor and mentor. Wiley is McAdoo’s tutor for every class in the fall of ’08 and they work together every weeknight in study hall – a mandatory requirement for McAdoo.
Fall 2008 -- Wiley assists McAdoo with a paper he was writing for AFRI 266. Among other editorial comments and suggestions, Wiley helps McAdoo with in-text citations and a “Works Cited
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