Canal Street Question: Should Reggie Keep His Heisman?

If Brian Cushing can keep his Defensive ROY award, then there would be no justice in the world of football if Reggie Bush loses his Heisman. Cushing cheated his way to better performance. That entirely changes my view of who was the best defensive rookie. Nothing USC did changes the fact that Reggie Bush was the best college football player that year.

Reggie was the best college football player that year. Period. It doesn’t matter if USC gave him extra benefits or whatever. He was still a kid. This is USC’s fault, not his.

Don’t know if he will, but this sums it up very well!

This isn’t a Reggie wrongdoing so much as it’s a problem with the entire system that condones it.

I also agree with Pat Yasinskas’ feelings as well. I mean, you can’t tell me that Reggie is the first college athelete that had that kind of stuff thrown his way…

Eh. Maybe it changes his eligibility to be on the field at the time, but it doesn’t change what he did once he was playing. Let him keep it.

if reggie had gone anywhere else but the saints, i would def think he should get stripped of his trophy.

alas, that is not the case, so i blame USC entirely. maybe this will just piss him off, and he will take it out on the vikes in week one.

If anything, having his parents live by him in Los Angeles (I’m assuming that’s where it allegedly was) would take away from his performance. That’s two more distractions from him working on his game. Prolly not a big deal. But couldn’t help him. He should definately keep it. Vince Young said he wouldn’t take it anyway

based on if he were an eligible? Sounds like the decision has been made.

Are you joking? Justice in the football world? Where?

Why does everyone concentrate on poor Reggie Bush, the mere kid? The real victims here are the student athletes who signed with USC in good faith and now see, first, their coach gone to Seattle, and finally, their team consigned to the lowest level of NCAA hell. It wasn’t their fault…but it sure as hell was Reggie’s. He may have been immature, and exhibited poor impulse control; but he knew what he was doing, and did it anyway.

I won’t cry any tears for Reggie if they take away the trophy that he was ineligible for. Maybe it will spur him to greater things on the NFL field.

I think he should be stripped of it, then told he can have it back, as soon as he learns how to run between the tackles.

is that Lane Kiffen gets the flying fickle finger of fate award. After screwing the football program at Tennessee, he gets to see what it’s like to be on the receiving end.

to think he should stripped. Based on performance, he was human highlight reel that year. Huge difference between steroids and cash. Double rods to Kiffin and USC. What people see in that guy as a coach is beyond me. I’m completely underwhelmed.

He might try harder in the pros. He’ll have to go out and make a new name for himself and be more motivated to get a new award, like an MVP award. I do, however, have a problem with the NCAA rules regarding student athletes. College kids are usually broke, and as an athlete, nothing is guaranteed. There’s no guarantee that you’re going to make it to the pros. You could get hurt and lose everything. If someone is willing to pay your rent or buy you a car, let’s be honest, would any of us turn that down? This happens all across college athletics, but this is a big player at a big school and everybody knows what happened. He really didn’t do much to hide it and that is his fault. I think he probably will lose the Heisman, but I will be disappointed if he does

But, he gratduated from Jack Yates High School in Houston, Texas and attended Oklahoma State University for four years prior to being drafted by the Redskins. When he was 30 years old, he admitted publicly for the first time that he could neither read or write.

While the extremes of the Manley situation may have gotten bettter, there probably isn’t a major college in the country with a successful football program that doesn’t, at the very least, allow a “liberal” application of passing grades to star atheletes. A university is supposed to be an institute of higher learning. As long as the NCAA continues to cast a blind eye to this, it makes any ruling they come up with regarding other compensation just look stupid.

do they have cops show and take it from him

whether Bush deserves to keep it or not. If anything, I suppose you could say that by doing what he did, Bush would have lost his eligibility the year he won the trophy. Yes, he was a kid, but we are sending a lot of kids to foreign countries to fight some of the most evil people on the planet in the most difficult of conditions. Bush was old enough to accept the consequences of such actions if he did what has been alleged. Personally, I don’t think it warrants revoking the award since other USC running backs who have won the Heisman have done far worse {cough} OJ {cough}, but then again if the Downtown Athletic Club feels very strongly about the award going only to players who were eligible at the time the won it, I understand their position.

“since other USC running backs who have won the Heisman have done far worse {cough} OJ {cough}”

The only thing Juice may have done wrong in college (to my knowledge) was pull a knife of a teammate and that allegedly occurred at CCSF, not USC.

to save face. He was ineligible to play, technically a professional playing with ameteurs. Why would he want to keep an award that he shouldn’t have to begin with?

the same years he played. Its been going on forever. Media hype. Lets make a story. No lets play ball. Now VY has slapped some turd in a bar in Houston so he can’t have a Heisman trophy anyway. Bush has enough problems keeping PT from taking his lunch money.

What he did was obviously wrong but think about yourself at that age. If someone flashed all that in your face and you got to play the game you loved it would be pretty hard to say no. It’s hard to balance out your ego with such a lack of life experience. The person I am now would say no but at 18 years old God knows what I might have done. This is common practice in college football. All it is is an example to scare the bejebus out of other players.

Plus he has a superbowl ring now, it might bother him to have it taken away but when it comes down to it you are only as good as your last game in the NFL, so does it really matter?