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Message: [QUOTE="Figurehead, post: 4255845, member: 9631"] Funny thing about inside knowledge. Everybody has it and Eugene is a small town with alot of interest scattered about. I knew someone a few years ago that worked the counter of one of the three car rental desks at the Eugene Airport. He left the state and moved on since then but is an avid Duck fan. He would see coaches and big name recruits come and go way before the media ever did. And he knew who they were. I lived at one time just a block down the street from a now retired associate athletic director. So a football player from a few years ago wrecked a rental car in southern Oregon and I asked that associate athletic director about it the next day. He did not know a thing until the police report came across two weeks later. The rental car guy knew that week way before the athletic department ever did. That was the norm that the department knew after the community did on some things My niece graduated from Oregon and being in the student body she knew some of the volleyball athletes and pretty much knew the inner workings. Softball has an all american pitcher out for the whole year due to an injury pre season. Usually a parent is there talking about the team and someone asked about that player and that parent shared. So parents like to talk during softball games. I don't know basketball parents and have not run across that former associate athletic director yet? Maybe during softball? [/QUOTE]