Bush League?

Man, this Reggie Bush thing seems like it could be very, very ugly.  This has the potential to be one of the biggest college sports scandals since SMU got the death penalty.

 

This is really damaging to Bush as a person — there’ve been way too many Christ-like comparisons for the kid, as if he’s the savior of New Orleans — and also will hurt Carroll’s credibility.

 

I also find it kind of funny that Yahoo! Sports is breaking this investigative story – a story that has blockbuster potential.

 

First, the home is the worst, but at least Bush had a claim of plausible deniability there (as Pete Carroll put it, how many college kids know how their parents pay the mortgage?).  Not a good argument, but plausible. Second, you need to read the Yahoo! Sports article. There is much, much more than what you cited.  Including stays for Reggie at the Venetian in Vegas, $1,500 a week payments to his parents ($1,000 to dad and $500 to mom) and a pimped out Chevy Impala to Reggie.

 

Of interest to me is how the ncaa prohibits payments/loans from sports agents to players but somehow allows players, as in the case of Bush, to intern in sports agencies. Talk about temptation.

 

Think about the potential widespread impact this could have.  Hell, it may already be the reason Houston passed on him and why the Saints apparently had to have a meeting the night before the draft to discuss taking him.  It could lead to Pete Carroll coaching in the NFL, the destruction of a program that just 10 months ago I was e-mailing had to be the #1 school that any stud athlete would want to go to.  Vince Young receiving the Heisman.  And an Oklahoma team that was humiliated in the Orange Bowl being deemed National Champions. And Leinart’s college years being put under a microscope by every investigative sports journalist in the country. I’m sure he’s thrilled about that possibility.

 

and those are just the obvious starters.