Reggie Bush To Become 1st Person In 75-Year History of the Heisman Award To Be Stripped of the Trophy
Posted by Media Outrage on September 7th, 2010
Reggie Bush might as well take all the pictures he can with that Heisman Trophy because at the end of September that joint is going back to the one who gave it. Reggie is being stripped of the trophy yall
The Heisman Trophy Trust is expected to strip former University of Southern California star running back Reggie Bush of college football’s top honor by the end of September, sources told Yahoo! Sports.
Bush would become the first player in the 75-year history of the award to have the trophy taken away. The NCAA found major violations in the Trojans’ football program in June and levied serious sanctions against the school.
Two sources close to the Heisman trust said the body’s investigation is coming to a close, and will ultimately concur with the NCAA’s determination that Bush was ineligible during his Heisman-winning season in 2005. Because of that independent conclusion, sources said the trust will relieve Bush of the award and leave the honor for that season vacant. The sources said Bush met with Heisman representatives last month at the New York law offices of Emmet, Marvin & Martin. The sources would not reveal details of that meeting.
Bush, now a standout with the Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints, could not immediately be reached for comment.
The Heisman trust has been conducting its own independent inquiry into Bush’s eligibility since the NCAA ruled in June that the USC star had committed multiple violations by accepting cash, gifts and other impermissible benefits while playing for the Trojans. Yahoo! Sports first detailed the extra benefits in September 2006. In its findings, the NCAA retroactively ruled Bush ineligible for part of the 2004 season and all of 2005. The NCAA also ordered the USC program to remove all references to Bush from its sporting venues and promotional materials and vacate his statistics from all games in which he was ineligible.
In July, incoming USC president C.L. Max Nikias announced that the university would be returning its copy of Bush’s Heisman to the trust, stating the Trojans would honor and respect athletes who “did not compromise their athletic program or the opportunities of future USC student-athletes.” New USC athletic director Pat Haden followed up in August, stating during an interview with the Dan Patrick radio show that Bush should also voluntarily return his Heisman.
While others pressed for a swift decision, the trust opted for a patient, meticulous effort. Sources said the trust did its own detailed investigation over the past three months, using a litany of resources and reviewing its information against the NCAA’s findings. The trust also offered Bush a chance to impact the decision.
The process apparently came with considerable debate – in part because of the trust’s quest for due process, but also because of the unique nature of the decision. Never in the history of the award has the trust been forced to retroactively rule on the eligibility of a past winner. That reality, along with the NCAA’s findings, created a tangled knot of deliberation regarding the trust’s place in the role of enforcement. Sources said the prominent issues discussed included accountability, on-field vs. off-field conduct, implications of retroactively stripping an award and possible impact on future athletes and the NCAA.
Two factors outweighed all others, sources said: The Heisman ballot necessitates candidates be in compliance with NCAA bylaws and concern over the Heisman’s reputation in the wake of the NCAA findings against Bush.
The status of USC’s 2004 Bowl Championship Series national title remains to be determined. BCS officials are awaiting the NCAA’s ruling on the Trojans’ appeal of the June finding.
Mediaoutrage- Well double damn.
September 7th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
How embarrassing,
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September 7th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
DUMB NEGRO RASCIST WHO VOTED ONLY FOR SKIN COLOR ARE GETTING WHAT THEY DESERVE. BLACK RASCIST, OR WHITE RASCIST – IT IS WRONG!!!
STOP LISTENING TO PAID BLACK LEADERS WHO ENCOURAGE U TO VOTE ONLY FOR COLOR! THE NEXT ADOLF HITLER WILL BE IN BLACK FACE.
CHECK THEIR VOTING RECORDS ON .GOV SITES
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Dickwell Thrust Reply:
September 7th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
What in the United FUCK are you talking about?!?!? This is Reggie Bush’s Heisman trophy you dumb Horse Dick!!
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MaliaMalia STILL LOVES MO Reply:
September 8th, 2010 at 1:06 am
lol @ What in the United F*** are you talking about?!?!
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BrittBrattNYC Reply:
September 8th, 2010 at 3:11 am
LOL
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September 7th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
“The NCAA also ordered the USC program to remove all references to Bush from its sporting venues and promotional materials and vacate his statistics from all games in which he was ineligible.”….DAMN REGGIE.
Ok MO or anyone, I don’t do sports but is this fair what they’re doing to Reggie or not?
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September 7th, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Cliff notes please.
AND DANG! That’s messed up
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September 7th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Time to hand it over to the real winner…..Vince Young \m/ hook’em bitches!
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September 7th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
The president of Germany’s Olympic Committee, Dr. Theodor Lewald, was himself ousted from this prestigious position after it was revealed his paternal grandmother was Jewish. He was replaced by a high ranking SA man named Hans von Tschammer und Osten.
Osten quickly established an Aryans-only policy in selecting Germany’s Olympic athletes. This was in keeping with numerous Nazi rules and regulations shutting out Jews from all facets of German society. Some of the Jews excluded from the Olympic team were actually world class athletes, such as tennis star Daniel Prenn and boxer Erich Seelig. They left Germany, along with other Jewish athletes, to resume their sports careers abroad.
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Dickwell Thrust Reply:
September 8th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Is this a conspiracy of all Dumb FUCKS to Unite on Media Outrage and talk about shit that has nothing to do with the post above? What do Jews have to do with Reggie Bush in 2005 and 2010 being stripped from the Heisman Trophy??!?!?
Please you son of a Horses Dick kill yourself and stop spamming!!!!!
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September 7th, 2010 at 11:13 pm
If you want to know what is going on today, study the jewish holocaust. Then u will understand the inner city systematic killing of black boys, take down of the black rich, destruction of the black middle class, homelessness, no work, no govt help, no education, high abortion rates and eventually genocide
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September 8th, 2010 at 3:18 am
My problem is if they were doing an investigation why give him the trophy in the first place? And I bet in the 75-year history of the Heisman he is not the first to accept gifts, and cash. This seems like someone personally doesn’t like Reggie. He should fight it if he can. (Then again maybe Kim has something to do with it…j/k)
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September 8th, 2010 at 8:22 pm
how naive we are. all the naive jews went to the death camps. the smart ones got out of germany
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BrittBrattNYC Reply:
September 9th, 2010 at 3:32 am
Wanna hear a joke…here goes. What do jews and pizza have in common? They both go in ovens.
I know, I know a bad and tasteless joke but it just popped in my head. Sorry.
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December 14th, 2011 at 4:38 pm
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