{"id":562,"date":"2010-06-11T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/?p=562"},"modified":"2010-06-11T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T20:00:09","slug":"bush-throws-trojans-to-the-ncaa-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/bush-throws-trojans-to-the-ncaa-wolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Throws Trojans to the NCAA Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"

NCAA Determines Bush Ineligible;\u00a0USC\u00a0Hit with Tough Sanctions<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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When Bush signed "the contract" with agents, he became ineligible to play college football.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The mystery behind the alleged gifts from professional agents to former Heisman Trophy<\/strong> <\/a>winner from the University of Southern California<\/a><\/strong>, Reggie Bush<\/a><\/strong>, is finally over according to the NCAA<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 The nation\u2019s largest college athletic governing body has announced its findings and the consequences placed on the university.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

A three-year investigation by the NCAA Committee on Infractions<\/a><\/strong>, which covered a four-year period, has found the violations severe enough to penalize the Pac-10<\/strong> <\/a>powerhouse football program by eliminating future post season play as well as scholarships the next three years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While Bush continues to trumpet his innocence, the NCAA concluded that Bush, now a star running back for Super Bowl Champion New Orleans Saints<\/a><\/strong>, received extraordinary benefits from agents attempting to capitalize on Bush\u2019s promising professional career.\u00a0 The investigation itself was triggered by one of the agent\u2019s public complaints that Bush failed to abide by their 2004 signed agreement which was in direct violation of NCAA rules.\u00a0 Once Bush signed a contract with a professional agent, he was ineligible to play athletics at USC.<\/p>\n

Also named in the investigation, and penalized, are the USC men\u2019s basketball and women\u2019s tennis teams, although a<\/a> majority of the infractions found stemmed from Reggie Bush\u2019s involvement with professional agents during his time while on scholarship at the school.<\/p>\n

Quoting the NCAA, \u201cthe penalties include:<\/p>\n

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The NCAA has come down especially hard on Southern Cal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Four years of probation
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A two-year football postseason ban
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vacation of regular-season and postseason wins for all three sports
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Scholarship reductions in football (to 15 initial grants and 75 total grants for each of the 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14 academic years, which represents a decrease of 10 scholarships for each of the three seasons)
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Scholarship reductions in men\u2019s basketball (from 13 to 12 for the 2009-10 and 2010-11 academic years)
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Recruiting restrictions for men\u2019s basketball<\/p>\n

The institution also must pay a $5,000 penalty and forfeit revenue from the 2008 NCAA Division I Men\u2019s Basketball Championship.<\/p>\n

Also imposed are limitations for the access granted to boosters and non-university personnel to team charters, sidelines, practices, locker rooms and camps for men\u2019s basketball and football. The university must also disassociate itself from three boosters, including the former football and men\u2019s basketball student-athletes involved in this case.<\/p>\n

As a part of this disassociation, the university will not be able to accept financial contributions or other assistance for the athletics department from these individuals or provide them with any benefit and privileges.<\/p>\n

In addition, the assistant football coach received a one-year show-cause penalty, which prohibits him from engaging<\/a> in any recruiting activity with prospective student-athletes.<\/p>\n

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Bush refused to cooperate with the NCAA throughout the investigation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The violations span almost four years, primarily involving agent and amateurism issues for a former football student-athlete and a former men\u2019s basketball student-athlete. The committee noted that the violations in this case strike at the heart of the NCAA amateurism principal, which states that intercollegiate athletics should be motivated primarily by education and its benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NCAA Determines Bush Ineligible;\u00a0USC\u00a0Hit with Tough Sanctions The mystery behind the alleged gifts from professional agents to former Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Southern California, Reggie Bush, is finally over according to the NCAA.\u00a0 The nation\u2019s largest college athletic governing body has announced its findings and the consequences placed on the university.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}