
I thought Dez Bryant was going to be the runaway winner of the Idiot of the Week Award for getting sued for over $850,000 in unpaid bills in less than one week, but in swoops LSU’s Patrick Peterson to take the title from him. On Wednesday news surfaced that street agent Willie Lyles told an Texas A&M assistant that they’d have to cough up $80,000 if they wanted Peterson because that’s what other schools were offering.
The very next day Peterson then issued a statement through LSU saying that he “never had any type of relationship with Willie Lyles and… he had no involvement with [his] recruiting process”. And not only that, on Thursday Peterson told ESPN that he’d never even took a recruiting trip to A&M. Well as it turns out Peterson was lying through his teeth.
In article posted on Rivals.com‘s Texas A&M website back in August of 2007, Peterson told the author “I visited Texas A&M the other day. Everything there was great. The facilities were the best I had seen of anywhere that I’ve been this summer…”.
But wait there’s more. The story begins with Peterson saying, “dad and I were in Houston visiting one of his friends and he suggested that we go look at A&M.” And the “friend” according to the author of the article…none other than one Willie Lyles. Boom goes the dynamite.