Sounds like a ton of rent to me.
On ESPN's PTI yesterday, Reggie Bush said his family LEASED the property and nothing will come of the story. Sure doesn't sound like it...
So the lease was for $54,000 and this guy wants $2M??? What a maroon. If your tenant is two months behind, you are toast. You don't wait twelve months.
$54,000 rent will be a drop in the bucket, but somehow the lawsuit is for over $3 million.
They can rent my house for 4500!! Comes with a golf course too!
Isn't that a violation of NCAA rules?
The NCAA will take away every USC victory from last season since Bush played in those games illegally.
I find the owner more at fault because after two months, I would have started kicking them out. Why wait so long? Of course coincidentially when something goes wrong as it has with Bush right now, the guy must go to the media and should "Unfair". I am so suspect of people like that. I am not saying Bush was right, but I still find the owner has some sort of agenda.
I guess The Houston Texans don't want him either. There are rumors that Houston Texans and Mario Williams is a done deal:
http://profootballtalk.com/
How did they take advantage of him???
Why did he wait a year to collect on the rent???
Why is he claiming 3mil when the rent was $54K???
Bush's fault.
I heard it said he was there for a year. $54,000 for a years rent is high for the kind of home I hear they had.
What were the terms of the lease?
Was there a contract?
How do we know the guy didn't say you can stay at my place so I can make more money when you lived there later saying a celebrity lived here.
I think the guy will get a higher price on the sale for the history, so maybe he already did get the payment.
If the guy or anyone else had a cow about this, why after he already left is this an issue and not anytime the whole year before?
If the University of Oklahoma was in this particular situation, the NCAA would already have given them the death penalty.
But USC is pure in heart, and so the Trojans will continue onward and upward.
Excelsior, USC. Got another #1 recruiting class, didn't you?
No further comment, but I spit in USC's direction.
The home and money were to take care of a star athlete and against the rules. Gifts.
By filing now and making these claims, everyone involved can hide behind it.
Reggice will pay off the "Debt" and everyone, especially the NCAA will be happy.
Just the way it works.
North Carolina State's Mario Williams (9) closes in on Richmond quarterback Stacy Tutt (3) during the third quarter Saturday, Sept. 4, 2004, in Raleigh, N.C. N.C. The Houston Texans got the NFL draft off to a stunning start a day earlier, bypassing Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush and instead signing defensive end Williams with the No. 1 pick Friday night, April 28, 2006. (AP Photo/ Karl DeBlaker,file)
NEW YORK - There is now a clear-cut No. 1 pick in the NFL draft. And it's not Reggie Bush. The Houston Texans opted instead for defensive end Mario Williams, pulling one of the biggest shockers in recent history. They signed the North Carolina State standout to a six-year, $54 million contract, with $26.5 million guaranteed Friday night, hours before the start of the draft Saturday.
Though many thought the Heisman Trophy winning Bush would get the nod as the top pick, the Texans pulled a reverse of their own and went with defense.
"I think if people had just listened to what we had said, they would have seen that we were serious about Mario Williams," Texans general manager Charley Casserly said in Houston. "Once we brought him in here our statements never changed that we were seriously considering him for the first pick in the draft and I understand that people didn't believe it, but we always said it and we believed it."
Throughout the college football season, Bush dazzled with his with his electrifying moves and stunning speed at Southern California and seemed to be a shoo-in to become the first running back taken No. 1 since Ki-Jana Carter went to the Bengals in 1995.
But now, the Texans' move left the New Orleans Saints with an opportunity to take Bush as the No. 2 pick.
Bush has had more on his mind than the draft after questions were raised concerning who paid the rent for a home his parents lived in, and whether an agent was involved, which could violate NCAA rules. He's adamantly insisted there was no wrongdoing.
"I've got enough controversy going on in my life right now," Bush said Thursday, "but I'm sure it will all be worked out in a matter of weeks and that all the answers will be the right ones."
Williams, who has been described as a cross between Julius Peppers and Lawrence Taylor, saw his stock soar after his amazing performance at the NFL combine in February. The 6-foot-6 1/2, 292-pound Williams ran the 40-yard dash in 4.73 seconds and had 35 reps on the 225-pound bench press.
He becomes the first defensive end taken No. 1 overall since Courtney Brown went to the Cleveland Browns in 2000, and the 12th defensive lineman to be picked at the top of the draft.
Even though the suspense is over for the top pick, there are still plenty of questions about what the other 31 teams will do. After New Orleans, Tennessee faced a hard choice between Texas quarterback Vince Young and Matt Leinart of USC.
Young led the Longhorns to the national championship with a terrific performance, passing for 267 yards, running for 200 more and scrambling 8 yards on fourth down with 19 seconds left for the winning touchdown in a 41-38 win.
The Titans are in need of a quarterback to replace the aging Steve McNair. But they are also interested in Leinart, who played for offensive coordinator Norm Chow at USC.
After his performance in the Rose Bowl, Young seemed poised to be the No. 1 pick. Then questions arose about whether he is well-suited to play in a pro-style offense.
"A lot of people have their own opinions and they aren't afraid to say them," Young said. "It's not for me to go ask the critics why or answer the critics. I go on the field and work out and for the coaches and they see what I can do, and that's what matters.
"Since the Rose Bowl, a lot of people are trying to find something negative about me and they can't."
The Texans had nothing negative to say about Williams, and now they are looking forward to the rest of the draft.
"This is a decision that took a lot of time to make, but at the end of the day we felt this was the best player for our football team," Casserly said. "Both players, Reggie Bush and Mario Williams, are going to, I think, be great pros. We made the decision to go with defense."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060429/ap_on_sp_fo_ne/fbn_nfl_draft;_ylt=AvR88_toSgRr5NadNqZQmhes0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3cm82NXAwBHNlYwM3NTU-