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Kelly Hire Has Link to Scandal

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Kelly Hire Has Link to Scandal

POSTED: Monday, January 21, 2013, 12:59 PM

Les Bowen, Daily News Staff Writer

Can Pat Shurmur fix the Eagles’ offense?

MOBILE, Ala. --- Wearing Eagles garb at this morning's Senior Bowl weigh-in and sitting with the Birds' scouts was Josh Gibson, Oregon's former assistant director of football operations.

Reports from Oregon over the weekend indicated Gibson was being hired by the Eagles in an unspecified capacity. The Eagles have not confirmed this, or much of anything else about Kelly's staff.

In the summer of 2011, Gibson was implicated as a key figure in an NCAA investigation that could result in sanctions against the Ducks. Gibson was the main contact at Oregon for Will Lyles, a Houston-based "recruiting consultant" who was paid $25,000 for "information" that reportedly did not meet NCAA standards. The implication has been that Lyles was paid to steer players to Oregon.

Kelly, and perhaps more of his mystery staffers, are supposed to be present this afternoon at the South Senior Bowl practice in Fairhope, Ala.

CLARIFICATION: An earlier version of this post referred to reports that Gibson was dismissed by Oregon in 2011 because of the recruiting scandal. He was not. Gibson remained at Oregon until last weekend when Kelly hired him for the Eagles.

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Comments (42)

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:51 PM, 01/21/2013

Jut give u back our Kelly Green Uniforms. We are not the Raiders or the Steelers.

— tomficara

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:27 PM, 01/21/2013

What, garner is Chuck Schumer? Dang, now I REALLY REALLY REALLY have to move out of New York. Of course that explains why the state is in the condition it is...they PASSED to much in Albany.

— tpizza

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:37 PM, 01/21/2013

NCAA RULES ARE STUPID AND HYPOCRITICAL AT BEST

— DONDEN31

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:40 PM, 01/21/2013

Wow, one so-called infraction. And the school didn't fire the guy. So what?

— mike l

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:28 PM, 01/21/2013

where is chip kellys girlfriend ???

— JOEYMACK

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:37 PM, 01/21/2013

I would rather read about another guy with a fake dead girlfriend. Philly fans are not the problem, the press is. This article is a great example of it.

— paulie