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I would call this guy a principal! Throw the book at USC! Break up the 'marriage' between USC and the NCAA. Force the NCAA to act!

Who cares this was two years ago....let it go.......
If they go after him they have go after almost every high profile school and athlete.

who cares if it was 2 years ago. thing is, if he was caught 2 years ago he wouldnt have a heisman trophy. troy smith lost 2 games for 500 dollars. try 290 THOUSAND dollars. he should have the heisman snatched and the ncaa should consider sanctions for USC. Specual treatment is one thing, 290,000 is a way different.

Why not stop the madness, pay all the players. Stand back and look at it, the networks are making buckets of cash for the students efforts, for the most part these guys are doing it for the school, most know the NFL is a dream for them. NCAA football is the NFL's minor league, they should pay the players rent and a small salary, equal amounts for all players. While I'm at it why not a playoff system? Oh yeh this subject makes too much sence to actually do it.

NO don't pay the players. Hammered_ everynight . That would ruin college football or college sports for that matter. The players will be ruined by the all mighty dollar soon enough. They must do something to keep the NCAA as honest as possible. I am seeing class and sportsmenship is a dying breed. Pay the players and the riches school wins. THAT STINKS!!

troy smith stophatinkobe?? i thought we were talking about Bush. If the NCAA wants to keep any sort of decent reputation they need to act accordingly to ANY poven violations. It doesn't matter if it was last week or ten years ago. What would happen if we found out that the Rams won the 2000 game because they paid the time keeper to knock off a few seconds after every play. With the Titans litterally inches from victory, those few seconds would have been the difference between a win and a loss. Do you think if the NFL found that out that they wouldn't strip the Rams of the Champinship title?? Of course they would, they would have to! The same is here. If Bush broke the rules and the NCAA was given undeniable proof, they would HAVE TO act on it, end of story.

I got my fingers in my ears while singing "la la la la I can't hear you la la la la..."

The wrath of Khan is coming down on USC.

It might have been two years ago, but if you let this slide schools will point to this case in the future when they too want to be let off the hook for violating NCAA compliance regulations.
And no, you don't pay players. Paying players would take the parity out of college football. Only a handful of athletic programs actually make a profit and could afford to pay student athletes.

When some idiot booster was caught or rather told on by fat Phil at tenn for paying fat albert means to come to Bama "which he sucked anyway so that makes a lot of sense" the NCAA was all over us this has been ongoing everybody from pete carroll to my grandmother knows bush was paid and truth be told half the other trojans i'm sure but because they are the NCAA sweetheart they get nothing. Thats a crock of something what happened to equal treatment am i to take from this that as long as a team is in hollywood they can do what they want you burned Bama now it's USC turn. Even Oklahoma who acted as quickly as they did to the car lot mess got something the Trojans are getting a pat on the back and getting to claim 3 titles that they won one of on the field i think everyone not on the Trojan bandwagon is sick of the special treatment giving to USC do your jobs and strip them of there one title take Bush's Heisman and lets watch them rebuild in a few years they are in a recruiting heaven so it's not like it would kill for ever to take some scholarship's away and not let them into bowl games for a few years. But if there not going to do the NCAA should just let it be known that there just going to keep powdering the Trojans buts and let them get by with murder. (or at least fake suicide)

welp, I thought USC has Elite Alumni that were going to make this problem go away.

lISAOUTW/WINE&CHEESE

Point well taken, I did ahhh party my a*s*s off last night so my thinking is still blurred by Mr. Daniels.

Bush's actions had noting to do with the University. Boosters didn't give him / his family money, a private party did. Penalizing USC for that would be unjust. Penalizing Bush by DQ'ing his Heisman eligibility is the right thing to do. Take the Heisman and be done with it.
Bush is / was an idiot.

It's simple. Rules are Rules, regardless of which school or how long ago it happened.

Does anyone really think that USC was blind a a bat when it came to their golden boy Reggie Bush recieving hundreds of thousands of dollars? If you do, you are just as stupid a Bush himself.

People have been all over USC's nuts for the last few years and none of those people want to admit that USC & Bush f-ed up. It would be way to hard for them to admit the teams made "great" by Bush were tainted.

Rules are rules! If other players/teams can get busted for far lesser offenses, then these two should have the book thrown at them if the charges are found to be true. Plain & simple.

Hey Rosewood, boosters are "private parties" too. Boosters aren't employed, supervised or accountable to athletic departments any more than agents are. So if your argument is that this had nothing to do with the university, the niether did the stuff that got Alabama and Oklahoma in trouble.

And I still don't understand why people can't figure out that the NCAA can't take Bush's Heisman away. The Heisman is awarded by an independant organization, the NCAA doesn't have anything to do with it. That organization can do it, but it would be independant of any NCAA rulings.

Take his heisman away! Give it to Vince.

This will be the straw that breaks USC's back and result in Petey abanding ship for another unsuccessful venture in the NFL. Good riddance.

Domertom... You're a Jackass!!!

Hammer_everynight it happens to the best of us