I have to agree with you, the NCAA rules are absurd and frankly I hope they do remove USCs championship so they can start listing asterisks in their record books. And why start with Bush at USC? We know OSU players took money (Clarrett) on a recent championship of theirs; same for Florida and FSU.
My question is what Federal Law did Bush break (assume he took money hand over foot) that is so important that the U.S. Attorney General has to waste resources on this investigation? Can not the NCAA keep their own house clean? The NCAA by-laws are not Federal Laws, are they?
Why are the Feds wasting our tax dollars investigating something we have yet to determine is an actual crime?
SO - the NCAA violations are not causing a Federal Investigation. The Federal Investigation is finding evidence that points to NCAA violations.