Spring college football practices are starting...

[therealworldschampion 0]

So USC is trying to become the new Florida State. All they need is a foreign kicker that pulls off enough antics to get himself nearly deported...

[Guest]

The sexual assault allegations have happened before as well as now.

[Art Sandusky 0]

Man, it's like finding a bunch of worms in a beautiful apple.

[Damaramu 0]

Did anyone catch the Sportscenter College Football Spring Special?

Can't remember who it was but he said that if Adrian Peterson is healthy he will win the Heisman. I can't really argue that.

[CanadianChris 0]

Did anyone catch the Sportscenter College Football Spring Special?

Can't remember who it was but he said that if Adrian Peterson is healthy he will win the Heisman. I can't really argue that.

The non-partisan voice has spoken.

 

In semi-related news, Keith Jackson announced his retirement from ABC. A little sad, but it was probably the right time for him. 77 is pretty old to still be doing play-by-play.

[Damaramu 0]

Yay we won't have Jackson screwing up names anymore. He was good other than that though.

 

Any sane person will tell you that a healthy AD will be in the running for the Heisman easily. Just because I'm an OU fan doesn't mean anything. Jeez the season hasn't even started and you're already starting shit.

[CanadianChris 0]

Jesus Christ, man, it was a joke. Lighten up.

[Urban Warfare 0]

It just gets worse for SC...

 

LOS ANGELES -- USC freshman quarterback Mark Sanchez was arrested today for allegedly sexually assaulting a female student, according to Los Angeles police.

 

Sanchez, 19, was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault around 4 p.m. at the Cardinal Gardens apartment complex near campus, said Officer Jason Lee of the Los Angeles Police Department.

 

"According to investigators, a female USC student alleged that she was sexually assaulted at 12:30 a.m. today," Lee said. "The case is in the preliminary stages and under investigation."

 

Link

 

Thug U-SC!

 

I prefer "University of Sexual Crimes"

[teke184 0]

It just gets worse for SC...

 

LOS ANGELES -- USC freshman quarterback Mark Sanchez was arrested today for allegedly sexually assaulting a female student, according to Los Angeles police.

 

Sanchez, 19, was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault around 4 p.m. at the Cardinal Gardens apartment complex near campus, said Officer Jason Lee of the Los Angeles Police Department.

 

"According to investigators, a female USC student alleged that she was sexually assaulted at 12:30 a.m. today," Lee said. "The case is in the preliminary stages and under investigation."

 

Link

 

Thug U-SC!

 

I prefer "University of Sexual Crimes"

 

I'm surprised no one has made condom jokes about their mascot yet.

[Guest]

He was released, in case you didn't know. They only arrested him based on suspicion.

[Damaramu 0]

Man more stuff keeps coming out about this Reggie Bush story. I don't think it'll end well for USC.

[Urban Warfare 0]

Man more stuff keeps coming out about this Reggie Bush story. I don't think it'll end well for USC.

 

I assume your talking about this.

[teke184 0]

Man more stuff keeps coming out about this Reggie Bush story. I don't think it'll end well for USC.

 

I assume your talking about this.

 

That headline is bad enough...

 

The kickers are in the timeline section.

 

1. The landlord gave Bush's parents money to travel to USC away games, which is a BIG no-no

 

2. Contact initially started in November 2004, although no benefits were listed at that time

 

 

 

If #2 is tied to any known benefits, USC could not only forfeit their entire 2005 season, but possibly the last 4-5 games of 2004 as well, including the Orange Bowl game against Oklahoma for the BCS title

[Damaramu 0]

Man more stuff keeps coming out about this Reggie Bush story. I don't think it'll end well for USC.

 

I assume your talking about this.

 

That headline is bad enough...

 

The kickers are in the timeline section.

 

1. The landlord gave Bush's parents money to travel to USC away games, which is a BIG no-no

 

2. Contact initially started in November 2004, although no benefits were listed at that time

 

 

 

If #2 is tied to any known benefits, USC could not only forfeit their entire 2005 season, but possibly the last 4-5 games of 2004 as well, including the Orange Bowl game against Oklahoma for the BCS title

 

I don't want to hang up a championship banner for that though.....I mean we did get the shit kicked out of us.

[teke184 0]

I wouldn't necessarily want to claim that either...

 

The only joy I'd get out of it would be shutting up the annoying USC fans who claim that their dynasty was so much better than Texas, LSU, Oklahoma, and others over the past few years.

 

 

At least none of the teams I listed above have had these kinds of alleged improprieties during their big runs recently.

[teke184 0]

Well, this addresses one question as well as opening up some new avenues for investigation...

 

 

BCS: Ineligible Bush could dethrone USC

By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports

April 28, 2006

 

Dan Wetzel

Yahoo! Sports Exclusive

NEW YORK – Assertions by Michael Michaels – the lead investor in a doomed sports agency and the owner of a Spring Valley, Calif., home occupied by the family of Reggie Bush – could cost the University of Southern California its 2004 Bowl Championship Series national championship.

 

BCS officials told Yahoo! Sports on Friday that if Bush is ruled ineligible by either the Pacific 10 Conference or the NCAA for even one game during the 2004 season, the BCS will discuss amending its rules to allow it to force the Trojans to vacate the national championship.

 

"This is the type of thing the BCS might have to look into if other governing bodies, the conference and the NCAA, take action," BCS administrator Bill Hancock said.

 

Previously, Bush's eligibility for the 2005 season, which saw him win the Heisman Trophy and lead USC back to the BCS title game, had been questioned because of Michaels' statement that Bush's family failed to pay $54,000 in rent from April 2005 to April 2006.

 

Michaels' claims, which he has promised will be backed up by corroborating evidence, moves the timeline of Bush's potential ineligibility back to the Trojans' 2004 undefeated BCS national championship season.

 

In a statement released to Yahoo! Sports on Friday, Michaels' attorney, Brian Watkins, said that in October 2004 Michaels was approached at a San Diego Chargers football game by Bush's stepfather LaMar Griffin about investing and partnering in New Era Sports & Entertainment, a new sports agency.

 

In November 2004, Michaels then met with Griffin, longtime Bush friend Lloyd Lake and Bush himself to discuss the plan where the USC running back would be the firm's central client when he turned pro in the spring of 2006.

 

"In November 2004, in San Diego, Reggie Bush, recruited by his stepfather to validate Mr. Griffin's company, convinced [Michaels and Lake] of its viability," Watkins said in the statement.

 

"There was the representation that Reggie would come with his stepfather," Watkins told Yahoo! Sports on Friday. "Reggie ratified that."

 

Michaels said that soon thereafter Griffin asked him to pay off $28,000 of Griffin's personal debt, which Michaels obliged.

 

In April 2005, Griffin said "they were having housing problems" and Michaels allowed them to move into a $757,000, 3,000-square-foot home he owned in Spring Valley, a San Diego suburb. According to Michaels, Griffin and Bush's mother, Denise Griffin, failed to pay any of the agreed upon $4,500 monthly rent on the property before Michaels evicted the family last week.

 

Michaels also told Yahoo! Sports that he paid for Bush's family to travel to some USC road games during the 2005 season.

 

Bush, who is now projected to be the second overall pick in Saturday's NFL draft, has denied knowledge of any deal his family may have had with Michaels. Meanwhile, Michaels has said he will file a lawsuit against Bush and his family to recoup "approximately $300,000 in out-of-pocket costs alone, over 1½ years." He is also seeking damages to a total of $3.2 million.

 

Bush's NCAA eligibility would have been compromised by any gift that either he or his family received from the aspiring agents, either Michaels or Lake. The paying off of the $28,000 loan, the exact date of which is not known, is a clear NCAA violation. Also, a source inside the NCAA's compliance office said simply setting up the New Era partnership could be deemed an "extra benefit."

 

Officials at New York's Downtown Athletic Club, which award the Heisman Trophy, have said that they could take back Bush's honor if he is deemed ineligible by the NCAA. Now the 2004 season, which USC went 13-0, is under question.

 

The NCAA itself does not crown a champion in Division I-A football. Officially, USC captured the 2004 BCS national championship, which is administered by a consortium of major football conferences. As a result, while the NCAA could strip the Trojans of all their victories in 2004, it could not force USC to vacate its title because the BCS championship is administered outside of NCAA jurisdiction.

 

The BCS currently has no policy on possibly forcing a school to give up its championship, according to Hancock.

 

"The BCS is not a governing body," said BCS coordinator Mike Slive, who is also commissioner of the Southeastern Conference.

 

However, in the wake of the latest details involving Bush, discussion has occurred within the BCS that if the NCAA or the Pac-10 were to rule that USC must forfeit any or all games from the 2004 season – including its Orange Bowl victory over Oklahoma – the BCS could rewrite its bylaws and retroactively take away the Trojans' championship.

 

Only seven times has the NCAA forced a school to vacate a national championship but never in any of its marquee sports. The most recent examples are 2002 with the Hawaii men's volleyball team and 1995 with the UCLA softball team, both for using ineligible players.

 

Dan Wetzel is Yahoo! Sports' national columnist. Dan is the author of two new books.

[Urban Warfare 0]

Article claims Bush family got over 100k

 

Jesus Christ.

[Damaramu 0]

So if they take the Heisman from Bush does that mean the rightful winner.....I mean runner up Vince Young gets it?

[teke184 0]

I'd say it's probable...

 

Hell, most voters probably wished they could have switched over to Young after the Rose Bowl anyway.

[Angel_Grace_Blue 0]

That's why I think the Heisman should be awarded after all of the bowl games are played. Actually, all of the awards.

[Spicy McHaggis 0]

All of the information which portrays Reggie Bush and USC in a negative light has come from Michael Michaels and his attorney. Let me just say it, the guy is a nutcase. If I was Bush's attorney I would demand Michaels be subjected to a psychological evaluation. He thought he would parlay renting this house into being Reggie's agent. He got burned and now that his extortion didn't work, he's trying to drag everyone through the coals. And I don't care if I sound biased... I probably do.

 

Let's hold off on the repercussions until an actual investigation finds actual wrongdoing. As for now, the Heisman will stay with its rightful owner.

 

 

As for next season, I would say the Heisman is Brady Quinn's to win. He is absolutely the front runner.

[Damaramu 0]

They've already declared AD the front runner on ESPN. And whoever ESPN wants to win the Heisman usually wins it.

Young should've had it last season(he proved it in the bowl game) but ESPN touted Bush even more than they did today at the draft.

[UZI Suicide 0]

They've already declared AD the front runner on ESPN. And whoever ESPN wants to win the Heisman usually wins it.

Young should've had it last season(he proved it in the bowl game) but ESPN touted Bush even more than they did today at the draft.

 

When is Jason White giving back his Heisman?

[Damaramu 0]

They've already declared AD the front runner on ESPN. And whoever ESPN wants to win the Heisman usually wins it.

Young should've had it last season(he proved it in the bowl game) but ESPN touted Bush even more than they did today at the draft.

 

When is Jason White giving back his Heisman?

 

When it's proven he did something illegal and his records need to be erased for it.

[teke184 0]

They've already declared AD the front runner on ESPN. And whoever ESPN wants to win the Heisman usually wins it.

Young should've had it last season(he proved it in the bowl game) but ESPN touted Bush even more than they did today at the draft.

 

When is Jason White giving back his Heisman?

 

When it's proven he did something illegal and his records need to be erased for it.

 

I'll give the punchline to this one...

 

White didn't do anything illegal but WISHES he could erase the Big 12 title game and Sugar Bowl from his record.

[Hogan Made Wrestling 0]

They've already declared AD the front runner on ESPN. And whoever ESPN wants to win the Heisman usually wins it.

Young should've had it last season(he proved it in the bowl game) but ESPN touted Bush even more than they did today at the draft.

 

When is Jason White giving back his Heisman?

 

When it's proven he did something illegal and his records need to be erased for it.

 

I'll give the punchline to this one...

 

White didn't do anything illegal but WISHES he could erase the Big 12 title game and Sugar Bowl from his record.

 

Pretty soon he could go down as the "official" winner of said Sugar Bowl.

[Urban Warfare 0]

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[Bored 0]

So people know what the above link was about:

Leinart -- the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback picked 10th by the Arizona Cardinals in Saturday's NFL draft -- and Jarrett each paid $650 a month for the apartment that cost $3,866 a month, according to the Los Angeles Times. Leinart's father paid the difference and said he's been told Jarrett might have to repay him about $10,000, the newspaper reported.

 

University compliance officials are looking into whether the football program received an unfair advantage. While Bob Leinart would have been allowed to make up the difference for his son, he might not have been allowed to do so for another player.

Okay this is when the NCAA investigation goes overboard. Seriously who the fuck cares?

[CanadianChris 0]

I'll bet there isn't a program in America that doesn't have an NCAA violation somewhere if THAT is a violation. Jesus Christ.

[teke184 0]

That's what's called a "ticky-tack" foul in basketball.

 

It's a violation but it's kind of bullshit compared to more flagrant stuff.

 

 

 

If it wasn't for the other potential violations getting press time right now, no one would know or care about that one.