FROM A UCLA BRUIN'S PEN: FORGETTING BUSH A BAD CALL FOR USC

It might just be me, but i don’t see a link to an article.

I think it is this one

Now, what 18-year-old, especially a young black or Latino male from a low-income household, would say no to the pitch that I just presented?

Low-income, I can see. But what does black or Latino have to do with it? Are they more depraved than whites? Have naturally lower standards? Are easier to con? I wish this writer would spell it out instead of making us guess.

is there a way to edit it?

The annual tuition at USC is about 50K a year before living expenses. Why is it that the NCAA feels it’s alright for a school to bribe a kid with a free ride athletic scholarship worth a quarter of a million over four years, but heaven forbid anyone else should do him a favor (like the kid who “borrowed” a Land Rover).

The NCAA should enforce existing rules regarding a school or school representative using unfair “enticements” to get a kid to select their school to begin with. But once the decision is made and the deal is done, I think anything a college athlete negotiates with a company or individual not connected to the school (as long as it’s not criminally illegal) should be the college athlete’s business and not the NCAA’s.

Would there be possibilites of mis-use with such a system….. certainly. But, it wouldn’t be any more flawed or nearly as hypocritical than the bulls**t system they’ve got now. That system, by the way, is “no one can make money off of a college athlete’s ability except the college”.

I hope Reggie uses this experience as motivation to reach his full potential as a Saint and forgets about USC the same way they’re trying to erase his existence there and what he did for their program.