Oregon to be outed for major recruitment violations?
On his ESPN radio program Tuesday afternoon, Colin Cowherd said he received a text stating that a major football program will be outed very soon for “major recruiting violations.” College Football Talk has the details.
Here’s Cowherd’s minute-long monologue on what would be a seismic development if proven true:
I received an interesting text about 10 days ago, and this should be very frightening if you’re a fan of college football, that a major program in this country is going to be outed very soon for major recruiting violations. It is a top 10-12 program. I know what I think it is according to both my sources; I received another tip last night. I went to Vince Doria, who is sort of the journalistic editor at this company. He had heard the exact same thing. We are pursuing this story with vigor. A major publication is about to unseat a major college football power on recruiting violations. I will tell you from my source, it is not — it is not — Auburn. I will leave it at that. It is a major program and a major publication. When we can validate more… I have not been able to validate it nor has this company. We’re both pursuing it.
On Wednesday, Brooks Melchior, who has ties to ESPN and now runs the website SPORTSbyBROOKS.com, said this via Twitter:
Mult. ESPN sources have now verified to me Cowherd was referencing Oregon as school to be ‘outed very soon for major recruiting violations’
At this point, all we can do is wait to see if the NCAA makes an official announcement. Until they do, these reports are just speculation. But Cowherd and Melchior are both tapped into major media outlets, so this news is intriguing to say the least. With the amount of scandal surrounding Cam Newton and Auburn’s program, for Oregon to go down for major recruiting violations would be an absolute shocker. (Although would it be? Should any of us really be surprised that a major college football program – any major college football program – was breaking recruiting rules?)
Hopefully for Oregon this is just one gigantic rumor that has zero truth to it.
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Are you really going to tell us that Uncle Phil I mean Oregon…sorry. Is spending half a billion and letting rules stand in the way. If it’s not Oregon it will be soon.
No matter where he goes, Colin Cowherd is a moron. He lives in his own little world and doesn’t care for the opinion of others even though 99% of the population is smarter than him. It’s only a matter of time until he trash talks someone and they kick the sh*t out of him. They should televise it when it happens. It’s always hilarious when he waxes philosophical on his show. I guess he likes to fantasize that he actually has a brain. If he did have a brain, he wouldn’t have to make things up on his show. It’s so obvious he is making this sh*t up too. Shut up, Cowsh*t. Go to hell where you belong.
Wow, John Z, methinks you doth protest too much.
Maybe one of the football players had an extra piece of pie in the cafeteria while others eating were denied such luxury. Also, UofO tuition is quite expensive and even if you are on an athletic scholarship you still have to buy incidentals such as very expensive text books (written and published for the benefit of the tenured “professors” for the classes you have to attend). So, if you stayed clean in high school and went to UofO, you still need money for the day to day incidentals. And, if you came from a dirt poor farmer family, were do you get this extra money?
Terry- you are wrong. a full ride scholarship covers room, board, tuition, books and even a little spending money. UO is not an expensive college either. It’s a normal priced state run university. Oregons tuition is expensive, in that you get a community college education for the price of a university education.
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