Reggie,
What were you thinking? For that matter, what is everyone else thinking?
The only thing that the Heisman trophy has to do with the NCAA is that the NCAA has the best college football and so the award is granted to the players who are playing for NCAA member schools.
Why should the Heisman committee, or the average fan for that matter, care that Reggie Bush got illicit funds from a sports agent. I could see if USC wanted their scholarship money back, or if the NCAA wants to invalidate any titles that USC garnered while Reggie was playing, but he won the Heisman on talent and performance.
I am pretty sure that him receiving some cash from an agent did not make him a better player, or a more motivated player in the off-season.
These players are forced to commit to sports in such a way that it takes up more time than most adults full-time jobs, while going to school, which is all a lot of students can handle without sports or a job. At some schools, the off-season requirements are so high, that they are not even allowed, or able, to have a job in the off-season.
Yes, he broke a rule that was clearly stated, and he did it intentionally. Shaaaaaame on Reggie, you are a bad boy. Yes, USC should have been monitoring it closer and if they did know, they should have reported it or put a stop to it.
If that had happened, he would have jumped to the NFL and made way more than he was given. So, short answer.....WAH.
It's his award, he should keep it. If OJ can keep his after so thoroughly destroying his reputation with much worse actions, Reggie Bush should definitely be allowed to keep his for taking some money to help his family out.
Hell, I don't care if the money was to buy a few thousand XBox's. Make him pay some restitution if you want, donate the amount given x5 to build homeless shelters in south central or something. There is no way that he should be vacating the Heisman.
I hate this "holier than thou" crap that circulates in the mainstream media. They act like the history of major athletics has been nice and pristine. That nothing has ever happened that was not reported in the news, so these players today doing these "bad" things are just ruining the glorious and shameless history of college athletics.
Christian Peter : member of the Cornhusker Hall of Fame
Penn State's Team: 1, 2, 3, etc.
Tennessee
Even Duke
OOOOOh, and let's not forget the smaller schools.
We have real problems to worry about in athletics. This supposed "protection of the purity of amateur athletics" is a fraudulent system of indentured servitude and attacking a person's credibility so rancidly over a little money is ridiculous. Want to guess how many arrests Reggie Bush has? Well correct me if I'm wrong, but I am finding that number to be zero.
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