One day after the University of Oregon released a

in response to media inquiries about what it got for paying a football recruiting consultant $25,000, Oregon officials released more documents but did not respond to specific questions.

Instead, spokesman Dave Williford released a short statement:

"As we have previously stated, we have and will continue to work with the NCAA on this matter. Until this is resolved, we will offer no further comment."

In the end, it's difficult to tell what Oregon got for its money. The printed materials Willie Lyles provided Oregon as part of his "2011 National Package" included information on prospects in just six states. It is not known how much video Lyles provided Oregon -- his invoice promised video from 22 states -- because Oregon officials said that they couldn't retrieve it.

When the news surfaced in March that Oregon

shortly after Temple, Texas, star Lache Seastrunk signed with the Ducks, media outlets and the NCAA began questioning UO officials about the school's interactions with Lyles.

At the time, Oregon officials said they followed NCAA rules and that the payment was for a legitimate recruiting service. In comments that surfaced Tuesday in a

, Lyles denied wrongdoing.

At about 6:20 p.m. Tuesday, Oregon's office of public records released two e-mails from consultant Lyles to Josh Gibson, an employee on Oregon's football staff: one sent Feb. 17 and one sent March 3. Attached to the e-mails were documents including contact information for prospects in Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina and South Carolina. The attachments totaled 131 PDF pages with prospect information and two spreadsheets with 157 names.

The e-mails are dated about one year after Oregon paid Lyles for his "2011 National Package," and around the time Yahoo! Sports was investigating Oregon's payment to Lyles. Yahoo's story appeared March 3, the same date on one of Lyles' e-mails.

Lyles' more recent recruiting reports appear to be more current and comprehensive than an

. Of the 140 prospect bios in that packet, nearly all of the players had finished high school. Oregon officials have not said when they received the packet from Lyles, or whether they challenged Lyles when much of the information in it turned out to be useless.

Among the documents released Monday in response to requests under state open-records law -- including e-mails from head coach Chip Kelly and running backs coach Gary Campbell -- there was no evidence of an arrangement for Lyles to steer players to Oregon in exchange for payment. It is against NCAA rules for a school to pay someone to direct a player to sign with its team.

But a big question remains: How much video did Oregon receive from Lyles? In a Feb. 22, 2010 invoice to Oregon, he promised to deliver game and highlight film from prospects in 22 states. Yet Oregon issued no video to media outlets despite requests to see any and all materials Lyles included in his recruiting package.

Williford said Tuesday evening that during the recruitment process, Oregon receives video clips of players from many sources and sorts them by player. That process makes it very difficult to tell which videos came from Lyles, Williford said.

In a recording that also surfaced Tuesday, Lyles

with a Houston radio station Sunday, a day before the documents were released. In the interview, Lyles said of his dealings with Oregon, "I didn't do anything wrong."

The controversy surrounding him exploded after

felt they lost out on Seastrunk, Lyles said.

"When I didn't want to steer kids their way, that's when the relationship became strained," Lyles said. "So that's when they began the issue or, in a sense, almost, vendetta against me personally."

The radio program host asked Lyles to explain what he meant by "steer."

"No, this isn't what I'm doing," Lyles said. "I'm providing kids opportunity. I don't tell them where to go to school. They make those decisions themselves with their families. And it's not my decision to make for them."

Lyles told the host that he did a better job than most recruiting consultants in finding film of players that a given school would be interested in, rather than just producing numerous videos.

Lyles has declined interview requests from The Oregonian.

On Tuesday, UO public-records official Liz Denecke called the delayed release of the documents "just an omission, an oversight. I apologize." She added that to her knowledge, Oregon had addressed all records requests it had received about Lyles.

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