Kyle Lingerfelt emailed me last night to assure me that the survey was legit. He says that they sent a mailing out to 300 colleges in February. Perhaps that's true, and I'd be happy to check it out.

I have asked Kyle to provide me with the names of a sample of survey participants so I can check with them. And at the same time, if there are any coaches or administrators out there reading this who received the survey from Kyle, please let me know.

A separate email came from an email address with Kyle's name, but it was signed by Jody Hensen. Coach Hensen said that she is not married and that she has no affiliation with womenshoopscoop.net. She asked me to retract last night's post.

The Anchorage Daily News article from 2003 said that Kyle was Jody's fiance. I contacted someone from the University of Alaska-Anchorage yesterday who said that they are now married.

Maybe that was wrong — maybe they never got married. And I have no reason to believe that Coach Hensen herself had anything to do with setting up the website. Maybe Kyle did that all by himself (despite his regular use of first-person plural pronouns).

But clearly she has some connection to Kyle — her very email address confirmed that (assuming she really sent the email). That connection seems to go a long way toward explaining the strange poll that was posted on the site. Or at least: right now that seems like the most likely explanation for this bizarre series of events.

If it turns out that the poll was entirely legit, and that Jody Hensen really was named as one of the ten best recruiters in the country by a large national poll, and that her relationship to Kyle had absolutely nothing to do with it, I will be quick to apologize. Right now, however, this whole thing is just too fishy.