It's 7:23 am and I am sitting on my couch feeding my daughter her morning bottle. This a ritual I perform the mornings I am off work. I am also watching Mike and Mike in the Morning, another ritual I usually perform while feeding my daughter. I like catching up on the recent sport stories and after one episode of Sports Center, I can't take it anymore. So I watch M&M who tend to have a broader, yet annoying, selection of sports information. Today's big topic is whether Reggie Bush should get to keep the Heisman Trophy he won in 2005. And should there be a "re-vote" for that year and should Bush be, or not to be, included in the "re-vote."
As we all know by now, Bush was deemed to have been ineligible, by the NCAA, for that season. USC has been given multiple penalties and sanctions for their upcoming seasons. Soooo What does everyone think? Big Mike "I know it all cuz I was a C average lineman in the NFL" Golic thinks he would "re-vote" for Bush because he was the best player that season. Mack Brown (Texas coach and National Champion) thinks Vince Young should get it cuz he was the runner up that year. Lou Holtz thinks they should vacate the trophy for that year and there would not be a winner. Mike "I am a dork and piss my pants around pro athletes" Greenberg" thinks they should "re-vote" without Bush on the list.
Personally, I agree with Lou Holtz. Bush tainted the season and it would be hard to go back 5 years and try to decide another Heisman Trophy winner. True, he may have been the best player that season but he, according to the NCAA, should not have been playing at all. So if you should not have been playing at all... how can you be the best player in college football that season. That would be like USC going 12-0 this season and the BCS letting them play in the National Championship game. They win it and are crowned National Champions even though they are suspended from any BCS games by the NCAA. Let's just give it to them cuz they are the best team regardless of the fact they are deemed ineligible.
The NFL last season even went one step further. They have rule that says you cannot use performance enhancing drugs. Brian Cushing, after winning the defensive rookie of year award, was found to have used PEDs while playing that season. The voters "re-voted" and still chose Cushing who was left on the list as a candidate. I guess the NFL, and the AP voters, are saying you can break the rules, be suspended, yet you are still eligible to win awards.
One thing I do know is that if I test positive for drugs in my profession... I get FIRED!!! If I am ruled ineligible to work for whatever reason.... I don't get paid.
Have a great day!!!
I dont know why maybe its looking at the two of them talking on radio but i enjoy the show alot more when im listening to it in the car then when im watching it on TV. I cant stand Greeny because he is a stuck up prick which explains why he is a yankees fan. I dont mind Golic that much he can be a know it all sometimes. He was better than a C player atleast when he was with the Eagles anyway. He doesnt act like he was all world unlike the washed up QBs on all the other football shows who you would think all were Hall of Famers.
ReplyDeleteOk done with Mike and Mike, I was one to believe that he was the best player so just let them keep it. But i have thought more about it agree that it should be taken from him and just left empty.
If you revote with him on the list it doesnt prove anything except that if they revote for him then they too do not care about rules like the NFL.
If you revote for it without him on the list you are just asking who do you think was the second best player that year.
Dont keep the spot empty put a plaque stating why Bush's trophy is no longer their because he and USC cheated.
I have a question. Do you also strip Matt Leinart of his 2004 Heisman. Bush accounted for over 500 yards recieving and 7 recieving TDs. Plus how he affected the game running the ball should all that be taken into account for Leinarts winning the trophy? Because his stats were affected by an illegal player.