Maybe this is why LSU seemed to cool on ole Lache during his recruitment as signing day approached.

Oregon says payments for recruiter fall within NCAA rules | NOLA.com

Cowherd has been hinting about this for the past 2-3 days, saying he has 3 sources close to the situation that say that avtop 10-12 program not only will get investigated but will possibly go down for recruiting violations. He wouldn't say which program, but now I know.

So Oregon basically outbid Auburn, interesting!

maybe that's why Oregon folks didn't have too much to say about playing a potentially dirty team for the national championship.

I'd like to think thats why we backed off. But will we ever know?

Oregon will get the hammer at some point.

Auburn and LSU coaches backed-off of LS at basically the same time in the recruiting process ..... and most definitely for the same reason.