Reggie Bush to be Investigated by the NCAA
May 31, 2007
A year ago Yahoo Sports broke a story that had little credibility. The article contained small bits and pieces about Reggie Bush, the 2005 Heisman winner recieving extra benefits from sports marketing agencies while Bush was still only a USC student.
As Reggie’s fame grew, bribes were thrown at him left and right. His family was in dier need of money to support themselves. Can you really blame him for taking gifts and extra benefits to help his family. The point is, he did not flaunt the fact that he was recieving extra benefits, he kept it undisclosed. It did not hurt anyone at USC and it certainly helped his family and his road to the NFL.
When asked about the situation Stewart Madel of SI answered… “
“There should not be any doubt at this point that Bush and his family broke NCAA rules. Even if you completely disregard the stuff about the house in San Diego — which, while the most explosive of the allegations, may be the hardest to prove — there was still no shortage of damning, documented evidence in those reports. Yahoo! backed up many of its allegations with hotel and credit-card receipts, reported the existence of audio tapes involving the guilty parties and even caught Bush’s marketing agent, Mike Ornstein, implicating himself by saying the gifts to Bush and his family constituted “loans” (and claiming he had “no idea” whether or not the loans constituted an NCAA violation — umm, they sure do).
What would I do to Bush? I suggest we put him alone in a room with Brian Urlacher for five minutes and lock the doors. But the NCAA tends to go about things in a more formal manner — which includes conducting its own investigation to try to verify the allegations brought up by Yahoo! And that’s where things have hit quite the snag.”
Should there be an Investigation? If Bush recieved extra benefits who else is? More than you think.
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