An internal investigation by Oregon State University found that LLCs owned by Brent Blaylock, the school’s former deputy executive athletic director, had no relationship to Blueprint Sports, the NIL consulting firm the university hired this summer.
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The investigation spawned from an Oregon State fan podcast, which raised suspicion about the timing of the creation and restructuring of Blaylock’s personal LLCs in relation to the OSU-Blueprint agreement. In a report issued last week and reviewed by Sportico, OSU’s Office of Audit, Risk and Compliance determined that the overlap “appears to be coincidental.”…