December 14, 2025
By Daniel Libit, Sportico: 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.
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.”
“The investigation procedures conducted support the deputy/COO’s assertion that these LLCs were established to facilitate current and planned rentals of residential properties and were unrelated to the activities of Blueprint Sports or any other aspect of his position at OSU,” David Terry, the school’s compliance chief, wrote in an executive summary memorandum to athletic director Scott Barnes.
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