Report: Oregon's Josh Gibson relieved of duties

[ChrisParadise]

so it begins.

innocent schools dont fire people suddenly like this.

Report: Oregon's Josh Gibson relieved of duties



UPDATE: Oregon has since denied the report that Gibson is no longer the school's assistant director of fooball operations.

It looks like the fallout at Oregon has begun.

Josh Gibson, Oregon's assistant director of football operations, was named in a Yahoo report last week detailing the relationship between the school and Complete Scouting Service director Will Lyles. In that report, Lyles said Gibson knew about and helped him petition the grandmother of running back Lache Seastrunk to sign off on Seastrunk's letter of intent to attend Oregon. There were concerns that Seastrunk's mother wouldn't want him to attend the school.

Now, according to DuckTerritory.com, it seems that Gibson is no longer employed by the school as its assistant director of football operations.

Multiple sources close to the Oregon football program tell DuckTerritory.com that Assistant Director of Football Operations Josh Gibson is no longer working in the football office. It is unclear if Gibson has been fired, if he resigned or if he has been reassigned.

Multiple messages left on Gibson’s cell phone have not been returned.

When contacted by phone Wednesday afternoon by DuckTerritory’s Matt Prehm, Oregon spokesman Dave Williford said. "I can't confirm or deny that."
This could be the first of many dominoes to fall at Oregon in the coming months as the NCAA continues to investigate the school's relationship with Lyles -- especially considering that Lyles said recently he plans on cooperating with the NCAA investigation.

 

[REDEYE]

Oregon 48 Tennessee 13

 

[stander]

:scared1:

 

[ChrisParadise]

 

[MackDonald]

OUCH!!!! He's going to end up with one helluva an "oooowwwwie"....and a sore ass.

 

[jblonghorn]

Conan will post something to the tune of saying "there's nothing to see here, move along".....

 

[Conan]

Stander....
You are making me hungry. But that isn't how I would eat a duck.

One of the best things you can do when you visit Eugene, especially
if you are having dinner after your team was just killed at Autzen earlier
in the day, is to visit the Wild Duck Brewerydowntown on West 6tth.

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Try one of their specialty duck dishes like roasted duck breasts with fig
shallot compote. I have half a mind to jump in my car right now and drive
up there just for this.

 

[Conan]

Lately I've been reading that Lyles doesn't qualify as a scouting service but was just trying to start one early this year.

All the vultures are treating him as if he had been in business for years. Try throwing a complete website together for any business and see how long it takes you to fill it up with all the content it needs. Are you going to say he should have done all of that before he ever published his website? You are right. Guilty as charged. What an overambitious sonofabitch for even thinking he could do only part of the job to get started. 5 years in federal prison and a lifetime ban from football for even thinking of jumping the gun. That might be part of the reason why Kelly had the NCAA bylaws sent to him. I think if Oregon had not sent the report that Lyles sent to Oregon, that would have been a definite violation and coverup.

And as far as Gibson is concerned...If I was the AD, I might consider moving the kid over to a job that wasn't as intense and embroiled in so much contorversy. He's only about 26 years old you know. I'd move him for his own good. But so far that doesn't seem to be happening. The vultures would decend and use that as an admission of guilt. Idiots that don't even know who they are talking about that can't do any better than assume the worst. That won't bring them any closer to an NCAA title but they think it might. Can't beat them on the field so try to eliminate them a different way. They will still lose too many football games. Idiots.

UO denies report of operations assistant’s firing

By Adam Jude
The Register-Guard

Appeared in print: Saturday, July 9, 2011, page C1

University of Oregon officials have denied an Internet report that Josh Gibson, an assistant director of football operations, has been “relieved” of his duties in an apparent fallout from his ties to Texas scout Will Lyles. Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens told The Register-Guard on Friday that Gibson’s job status has not changed. UO spokesman Dave Williford said that the report is “not true.”

Earlier in the day, the recruiting website DuckTerritory.com reported that Gibson had been removed from his position, though the website noted it was “unclear” whether Gibson had been fired or reassigned, or if he resigned. Gibson has not returned phone and text messages from The Register-Guard.

Sources close to the Oregon football program offered conflicting reactions to the DuckTerritory report on Friday. One source close to the football program told The Register-Guard that Gibson has been removed from his position, but that he was being kept on Oregon’s payroll until the NCAA investigation into Oregon’s recruiting ties to Lyles “passes.”

However, two other sources said that Gibson has not been fired.

Gibson, a 2007 UO graduate, was hired in 2009, initially as football operations administrative and teamwork manager. He has a salary of $35,000 a year, according to athletic department records submitted to The Register-Guard last fall.

The NCAA is investigating Oregon’s $25,000 payment to Lyles’ company, Complete Scouting Services, for a 2010 national recruiting package. In interviews last week, first with Yahoo Sports and then The Register-Guard, Lyles said most of the scouting reports he provided to Oregon were verbally communicated, though he ultimately concluded that Oregon paid him for “influence and access” to recruits. Lyles said he has a close relationship with UO running backs Lache Seastrunk and LaMichael James.

Lyles described Gibson as a go-between for his communication with Oregon coaches. “To be honest with you, one thing I can say is Josh has always been a good guy,” Lyles said in an interview with The Register-Guard. “I think he’s just got put in a bad position.”

Lyles and Gibson spoke as recently as June 2 for 94 minutes, according to phone records Lyles provided to Yahoo Sports. During that conversation, Lyles asked Gibson about a second $25,000 Lyles said he was promised by coach Chip Kelly. “I spoke with Josh and I asked him about (the next payment), and he was saying that, ‘Well, you know, we can’t do anything right now,’ ” Lyles told Yahoo. “Basically, they pushed me off. I would ask, like, you know, when am I going to get paid? I asked those questions and they just kind of just kept pushing me back, pushing me back, pushing me back.”

In mid-February of this year, Lyles said he received a call from Gibson because Oregon wanted recruiting documents from 2010. Lyles then said he got a follow-up call from Kelly, who said to “just turn everything in,” Lyles told The Register-Guard. Lyles said he believed Oregon was “scrambling” to retroactively comply with NCAA rules.

In January 2010, Lyles called Gibson to make him aware of a potential problem with Seastrunk’s mother, who was apparently unwilling to sign her son’s letter of intent to Oregon. Phone records Lyles provided Yahoo showed that he and Gibson connected 23 times, for a total of 61 minutes, during an 11-day span that month.

On Jan. 12, 2010, Gibson forwarded an e-mail from Oregon’s compliance office to Lyles that detailed how Seastrunk could petition to have his grandmother sign the letter of intent.

The petition was eventually approved, Lyles said, allowing Seastrunk to sign with Oregon.


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[MackDonald]

Doe anyione know if this "josh" Gibson is related to the late "Hoot" Gibson, the guy in the cowboy movies years ago?

 

[stander]

Stander....

A definite stop. With all the big OOC games being scheduled, you never know.

 

[BigdaddyQH]

Oregon has always been a 2nd rate team in the Pac 8/10/12, or whatever. They have won a grand total of ZERO National Championships and ONE Rose Bowl Game, that being in 1917, before the Rose Bowl Stadium was ever build. Oregon just could not get over the hump in the 2000's so they reverted to cheating. They got caught. They will pay the price. Then they will sink back into the middle of the Pac 12 Pack. What do you expect from a program that has rested near or at the bottom of their conference for the vast majority of the seasons that they have played. Oregon has a proud history of NOTHING. It is not easy trying to give yourself SOMETHING to rest your laurels on. I mean, Cal, Colorado, Stanford, UCLA, and Washington all have won National Titles as well as USC. Oregon has not.

 

[REDEYE]

Oregon has always been a 2nd rate team in the Pac 8/10/12, or whatever. They have won a grand total of ZERO National Championships and ONE Rose Bowl Game, that being in 1917, before the Rose Bowl Stadium was ever build. Oregon just could not get over the hump in the 2000's so they reverted to cheating. They got caught. They will pay the price. Then they will sink back into the middle of the Pac 12 Pack. What do you expect from a program that has rested near or at the bottom of their conference for the vast majority of the seasons that they have played. Oregon has a proud history of NOTHING. It is not easy trying to give yourself SOMETHING to rest your laurels on. I mean, Cal, Colorado, Stanford, UCLA, and Washington all have won National Titles as well as USC. Oregon has not.

I guess we can expect more of this when you get your ass kicked in Eugene again this fall. I would be real careful about these predictions of yours. Remember USC wasn't exactly tearing up the league before Carroll.