Reggie Bush welcomed back to USC
Well if this news doesn't tickle your spine - with everything going on in our society these days - I don't know what will. Reggie Bush is being welcomed back with arms wide open by USC as the 10 year mandated disassociation between Bush and USC ended today.
“Welcome Home! You got us a national title that we had to give back, and established a mini dynasty for a bit there. We love you even though your scandal set off a chain of events causing our great coach to leave, sanctions To be imposed, and generally set us back to a place from which we’ve yet to recover!”
Almost sounds like you’re talking about Webber...Almost.
Exactly. Let's not throw stones.
Without self righteousness, these guys would have to stick to actual football accomplishments.
Okay, Boomer. USC won games because of players like Bush, and other dudes that were probably doing the same thing. Thinking he 'cost them wins' is so ass backwards.
Also, if his 'scandal' happened today, no one would give a shit.
Wtf is with “ok, boomer”? What part of what I said indicated I agreed with the punishment? And why would agreement with it (which I don’t) indicate that I’m over 60 (which im not). I simply pointed out how odd it is they’re welcoming him back even though they set the whole program back and have yet to recover from it.
Wtf is with “ok, boomer”?
It's what lazy Gen Zers use as a sic burn when they cannot come up with a point on their own.
Bush, and players like him who also took benefits, won the games. Blaming him 'for costing the program' is ass backwards. That's the point. Youre the one not saying anything.
Pointing out the world has passed you by is the icing on the cake.
Well, he did in fact cost his PROGRAM wins. Not HIS team, but the USC program. Believe what you want to believe, but he did set the program back. It's pretty easy to see the domino effect that played out because of everything.
Like the school didnt know. Give me a break, these things arent always on the kids.
Right! There are actual adults to blame, including Seattle's head coach. Bush was 17 years old when he committed to USC...
I think Pete Carroll would have left for the NFL sooner than later regardless. Certainly sped his departure, but he didn’t have much left to accomplish in college, and his previous NFL stint was a total fiasco
He was as exciting to watch in-person as any player I've seen live. Worth the downfall haha. Like Webber, I was happy he was on my team.
Username does not compute!
Ha, I grew up in Ann Arbor but attended USC. Still can't rinse the blue from my blood though.
It's interesting when "character" counts these days and when it doesn't.
After everything that has happened in college football over the last ten years, between Miami, Penn State, Michigan State, Baylor, and Ole Miss, what Bush did is small potatoes by comparison.
Cool.
Rationalizing integrity.
So are you saying they are all on the same level?
JFC. Get off your high horse.
Accepting bribes is not in the same stratosphere as covering up the rape of women or molesting children. Not even fucking close. I’m not exonerating Bush, what he did was wrong, but what he did is PG rated, at most, compared to what these other schools committed.
If the Reggie Bush scandal happened today, it would have been a slap on the wrist. The only football violation that occurred, on the whole team, was that Reggie’s step-Dad, in another city took an illegal loan to buy a house from a shady agent. The NCAA blamed USC for lack of institutional control because USC was not monitoring the activities of step parents of players in other cities. Reggie Bush told the agent to f-off and that he would not sign with him. Had he paid him off, this would be a non-story. And what made the matter worse was the AD Mike Garrett was so pompous to the NCAA investigation, they punitively punished USC. No football players were alleged to have taken any money, bought cars, paid to come play football. The OJ Mayo thing is another story, but Garrett tried to throw the basketball team under the bus so the football team would escape any penalty...that did not work. What happened while I was at Michigan with our basketball program was FAR more egregious than what happened with Bush.
More like Reggie Tush, amirite?
Nothing surprises me in today’s day and age ....
Now give him back his Heisman and hang the Final Four banners.
See nobody gives a fuck
Throw cocaine and hookers at every recruit.
The only way we're going to out Ohio State, Ohio State is by going full Ohio State
/The Mad Hatter has entered the chat
If you are looking for a "win at all costs" school, the University of Michigan is not it- and I hope it never becomes that.
Since I assume that I'm the new moderator you are banned.
No. Michigan is a win 8-10 games at a cost of 8M a year school.
Michigan isn't in the ivy league. We need to stop acting like we are. It's fine to exist somewhere in the middle, but use that to our advantage by getting competitive in recruiting.
And me. I'd like cocaine and hookers, too, please.
Thought maybe he was going back to earn those last 70 hours towards his degree.
This is one of the dumbest “punishments” the NCAA has. Basically trying to wipe away history as if it never happened when the vast majority of football fans watched and enjoyed how unbelievable he was. Benefits aside, he was one of the most phenomenal college football players there has ever been and made for can’t miss tv.
On the other hand he wasn't even on the field for the biggest play of USC's season in their NC title game loss to Texas.
Fuck it, hang the banners. C'mon Warde, stand up for Michigan.
Bush acts too high and mighty for me to care. When he opens his mouth, he always has negative things to say about Michigan.
Reggie should dissociate himself from them until they start winning meaningful games again
The push was illegal too. But it was against Notre Dame so fuck em.
The push was worse than the money.
'Sniffles.'
I'll qualify this by saying that I'm only 23, but Reggie probably had the greatest individual season of any CFB player in my lifetime. He was unbelievable, a list of other guys (again, in my lifetime/that I remember watching) I'd even put in the same stratosphere:
1. Suh
2. Saquon Barkley
3. Cam Newton
4. Special Teams Desean Jackson
He was ahead of his time in the NFL. Imagine him in today's offenses being utilized like Christian McCaffrey