The Burning Bush

This is a short little blurb to provide some insight prior to the weekend. This serves to remind you to MAKE YOUR PICKS (I'm looking in YOUR direction Felino). Onward to a topic that's made the airwaves this week...Reggie Bush's Heisman.

GIVE IT BACK....GIVE IT BACK....

Many moons ago, in the 2005 edition of BUCFP, I wrote a column I titled "Smoke and Mirrors" that discussed the topic of Reggie Bush and the then-rumored benefits he was receiving from agents. At that time I espoused, as I still do, that the NCAA has no business telling individuals what they can or can't do with their money. If Johnny Moneybags thinks giving Mike Pouncey's family a house will make it so Mike Pouncey can produce a shotgun snap with more elevation than a resting grasshopper, then so be it. In reality Mr. Moneybags money won't produce any kind of different result. Given that the NCAA makes obscene amounts of cash off the backs and torn knees of young men, they really should hop off their pedestal so-to-speak. That said, this particular huff has nothing to do with the NCAA...

GIVE IT BACK GIVE IT BACK!!!

Soooo, Mack Brown, and others who want Vince Young to get the retro-Heisman...question for you...How did the benefits Bush and his family received while he was at USC have any impact on Bush's performance on the field? Last I checked, there was no such thing as a performance enhancing television or house. Alledgedly, the Heisman awards its recipients for on-the-field performance, and thusly, awarded it to Reggie Bush in 2005 because he was one of the best in the country. Were Bush's transgressions of the Big Mac/Sosa type, there would be a legit case for the return of the trophy. As it stands, the "Bush-push" in South Bend (when he nudged NFL pretty boy reject Matt Leinhart over the line to beat ND-reject Charlie Weiss' best squad), is the only controversial thins that happened on the field with Mr. Bush.

Lastly, Coach Brown, do you REALLY want to suggest Vince Young should get the trophy? Do you REALLY want people looking into the things that a bunch of big belt-buckle wearin', yee-hawing, oil-soaked boosters are likely doing around your program in Austin? I bet you your mahogony-lined players locker room you don't.