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Posted on 9/9/08 at 8:01 pm to The Egg
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texas fans are claiming that Lache has a handler...err street agent...get involved with his recruiting process. basically, goes to the highest bidder, i think thats how it goes.
pretty damning accusations, but i'm not one to say whether its true or false.
some of their 'insiders' or supposed insiders say that they expect UT to end their recruitment of Lache bc of this.
i say it's all bs.
eta: i also think it's just sour grapes bc they know they're on the outside looking in on this one.
This shite always comes up when school a loses recruit x to school b.
Never before tho. Happened with PJ last year. Stupid shite.
And if Brian Butler is a street agent, he's not very good at his job I don't think:
Butler's Site
Look at that list of players. Only a few that are actually worth a damn.
Posted on 9/9/08 at 8:07 pm to OBUDan
dan, get in scout chat and request to get 'NotMikeS' banned
Posted on 9/9/08 at 8:34 pm to The Egg
how does OBUDAN compare to LSUDAN as a paysite message boarder?
Posted on 9/9/08 at 8:42 pm to Maximus
LSUDan is a living legend, my friend. many a flame war owe their origins to him.
Posted on 9/9/08 at 10:19 pm to The Egg
LSUDAN used to challenge Mr Clean to fights on a daily basis. CLean would start all his LSU posts on the national board with "Screw all you LSU haters especially LSUDAN..." But yeah that dude pwned and was banned permanently from Auburn, Alabama, Ole Miss, Michigan State, and prolly like 10 other boards. Even LSU for a while.
Posted on 9/9/08 at 10:22 pm to The Egg
Egg who is this street agent, bro?
Posted on 9/10/08 at 7:19 am to Lester Earl
The guy name is Coach Lyles.
Posted on 9/10/08 at 10:54 am to Texaswill
So what's all the talk on OB about Lache's mom saying she won't let her kid go to UT and LSU is his home?
Posted on 9/10/08 at 12:45 pm to Books
Yeah his mom said that during the Temple vs Cedar Park game. He had just scored on a long run and some dumb tu fans started chanting future longhorn. She turned around and said she'd never let her son go to UT. Everyone was shocked when she said that.
Posted on 9/10/08 at 12:58 pm to rudub
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The dirtier LS' recruitment gets, the more likely that bottom-feeder of a college called LSU wins out.
Texas sucks as a school!
Posted on 9/10/08 at 12:59 pm to 1BIGTigerFan
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lsu is much like ou in that they so totally control the state, they can cheat with impunity.
Another classic...
Posted on 9/10/08 at 1:00 pm to rudub
Lache will be 18 before LOI day and can sign without his moms sig on the contract. Also in the begining UT did some things that I consider minor infractions to get a head start on recruiting kids before Sept. 1st of junior year.
This post was edited on 9/10/08 at 3:56 pm
Posted on 9/10/08 at 1:05 pm to 1BIGTigerFan
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What is a street agent?
Per Texas board:
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the term "street agent" is used to describe an individual who "befriends" a hotly recruited player and/or the players family and positions themselves to be the representative for said player/family in dealings with recruiters.
The allegations are that these "friends" solicit funds from schools and their boosters for visits and signatures (the "rates" have been published on some boards...like $3,500 for an unofficial visit). Have you ever wondered how a kid from modest means, who happens to be a great prospect, can afford to make "unofficial visits" [visits the institutions do not finance] to 10+ schools as some are now doing? According to some these "street agents" take a cut of these funds and hope to be in a position to either represent the kid when he turns pro or get paid by an agent for steering a kid to him.
The sales pitch to the family is that they'll be compensated for all of the fuss of being recruited and since these coaches recruiting their kids are making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on the backs of their kids...it is only "fair" that they should make something off of the process! This flies particularly well in communities where the "value" of a scholarship is not understood or considered.
There are schools, LSU is one of them, rumored to not be shy in "dealing with" these "family friends" in order to recruit the outstanding prospects some of them are representing.
This is rampant in college basketball and is becoming more frequent in college football because of the publicity (via rivals/scout/etc) these young men are getting at earlier and earlier ages.
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A Street Agent is a person that associates himself with a recruit or recruits family to act as an "advisor" to help them through the recruiting process, usually families with single mothers. He will then be the point person for the recruit and their family with the schools that are recruiting him. He will ask for favors, cash, cars, etc. from the schools and give a portion to the recruit and family as a gesture of goodwill. Many times the recruit and the recruits family know nothing of the payments that the street agent has gotten from the school. Some of these guys actually "work" for professional agents to try and build their roster of clients if these kids have the ability to go pro. This started in AAU basketball and is now entering the football side.
Posted on 9/10/08 at 2:55 pm to Texaswill
I haven't heard anything about what his mom said. It's very new to me.
Posted on 9/10/08 at 5:42 pm to Texaswill
Was a big thread last night, ofcourse its since been deleted by the OB admins
Posted on 9/10/08 at 9:10 pm to Books
Books.. Yeah it was a big thread over there, but it was deleted due to alot of people using the word street agent instead of family friend. About a month ago, one of the posters said that the horns where going to back off on recruiting Lache. Something about a family friend and the temple coaches not liking the family friend. So now this stuff comes up and I have no idea about whats going on now. Im going to email my friend and hopefully he can shead some light on it for me.
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