Posted on 09/17/2006 9:34:57 AM PDT by Sam Hill
Not addressing you with my comments, but ESPN and the phalanx of sportwswiters who wish to strip Bush and USC.
We need a few more issues which would fall along the same lines, and then we can cut them off and ignore them!
What's up w/ N. Dakota!?
Thanks for the clarification.
As I say, I don't know much about the intricacies. Though it does seem to me that if he broke the rules, he should suffer the consequences.
Wrong Bush! Since this isn't the Bush that the Blue/Orange state libs love to hate, they are happy to ignore the rules and let his award stand.
If he were somehow a distant cousin of President George W. Bush, otoh, his life would already be ruined by psychotic libs trashing his name, assaulting his family and teammates, etc.
It's just the usual double-standard.
It appears you are a USC fan (or at least a PAC-10 fan). Nobody who is objective is going to defend this unethical behavior by Reggie Bush and USC. Bush should be stripped of the Heisman, USC of its title, and the NCAA should place USC on sanctions.
Everyone wants to say "I'm right and you're wrong and nah nah nah nah na."
This would be true only if big time college football were a sport. It actually is BIG BISNESS. There would be too much collateral damage to the civilians if you did this.
You would have to give refunds to everyone who watched the texas usc game and give refunds to the tv networks. It would leave such a bad taste in every fans mouth it would damage the millions that the schools get from football. In the case of Ohio State, the football program makes the school 60 million dollars a year which funds scholarships for all sorts of people and provides huge entertainment and diversion for the rest.
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