Reggie Bush should keep heisman

rise · 09-15-10, 11:27 AM

same here let him keep heisman he did his play on field they are after Usc football i dont like them but let him keep it OREGON duck fan

MartinBlank · 09-15-10, 11:50 AM

Actually-----only 9 universities turned a profit last year among the BCS conferences.

If you open this door of paying players, then what? Chicks will sue to get paid under Title IX---and how much do you pay a woman's volleyball player? They will demand the same as the football and basketball teams---and they will win in a court of law under Title IX.

Bush broke the rules---his actions are going to cost USC millions of dollars in lost revenue/penalties. Bush was on tv every week thanks to USC---and he got his million dollar payday. How would you like him to be punished? Or should he just be allowed to take cash and that's that?

USC by the way, didn't sell out their home opener. Just wait until those scholarship reductions kick in and they are back to the Ted Tolnar days.

statnerds · 09-15-10, 12:05 PM

Originally posted by MartinBlank

Actually-----only 9 universities turned a profit last year among the BCS conferences.

If you open this door of paying players, then what? Chicks will sue to get paid under Title IX---and how much do you pay a woman's volleyball player? They will demand the same as the football and basketball teams---and they will win in a court of law under Title IX.

would love to see the source on the universities that turned a profit last year. additionally I would love to see the salaries of the faculty and the president of every university making millions on these kids.

moreover, I would love to see how many non revenue generating sports like women's volleyball, golf etc universities would drop if the cash cow of college football went away.

let's just start here:

Bowl Game Date/Time Site Matchup Network Payout New Mexico Dec. 19
2:30 p.m. Albuquerque, NM Wyoming vs. Fresno State ESPN $750,000 St. Petersburg Dec. 19
8 p.m. St. Petersburg, FL Rutgers vs. UCF ESPN TBA R&L Carriers New Orleans Dec. 20
8 p.m. New Orleans, LA MTSU vs. Southern Miss ESPN $325,000 MAACO Las Vegas Dec. 22
8 p.m. Las Vegas, NV Oregon State vs. BYU ESPN $1,000,000 San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Dec. 23
8 p.m. San Diego, CA Utah vs. California ESPN $750,000 Sheraton Hawaii Dec. 24
8 p.m. Honolulu, HI Nevada vs. SMU ESPN $750,000 Emerald Dec. 26
8:30 p.m. San Francisco, CA Boston College vs. USC ESPN $750,000 Meineke Car Care Dec. 26
4 p.m. Charlotte, NC North Carolina vs. Pittsburgh ESPN $1,000,000 Little Caesars Dec. 26
5 p.m. Detroit, MI Ohio vs. Marshall ESPN $750,000 Gaylord Hotels Music City Dec. 27
8 p.m. Nashville, TN Kentucky vs. Clemson ESPN $1,650,000 AdvoCare V100 Independence Dec. 28
5 p.m. Shreveport, LA Texas A&M vs. Georgia ESPN $1,100,000 Champs Sports Dec. 29
8 p.m. Orlando, FL Miami (FL) vs. Wisconsin ESPN $2,130,000 EagleBank Dec. 29
4:30 p.m. Washington, DC UCLA vs. Temple ESPN $1,000,000 Pacific Life Holiday Dec. 30
8 p.m. San Diego, CA Nebraska vs. Arizona ESPN $2,200,000 Roady’s Humanitarian Dec. 30
4:30 p.m. Boise, ID Idaho vs. Bowling Green ESPN $750,000 Texas Dec. 31
3:30 p.m. Houston, TX Missouri vs. Navy ESPN $1,250,000 Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Dec. 31
TBD Fort Worth, TX Air Force vs. Houston ESPN $750,000 Brut Sun Dec. 31
Noon El Paso, TX Stanford vs. Oklahoma CBS $1,900,000 Insight Dec. 31
5:30 p.m. Tempe, AZ Minnesota vs. Iowa State NFL $1,200,000 Chick-fil-A Dec. 31
7:30 p.m. Atlanta, GA Virginia Tech vs. Tennessee ESPN $5,830,000 Outback Jan. 1
11 a.m. Tampa, FL Northwestern vs. Auburn ESPN $3,100,000 Capital One Jan. 1
1 p.m. Orlando, FL Penn State vs. LSU ABC $4,250,000 Konica Minolta Gator Jan. 1
1 p.m. Jacksonville, FL West Virginia vs. Florida State CBS $2,250,000 Rose presented by Citi Jan. 1
5 p.m. Pasadena, CA Oregon vs. Ohio State ABC $ 17,000,000 Allstate Sugar Jan. 1
8:30 p.m. New Orleans, LA Florida vs. Cincinnati FOX $17,000,000 AT&T Cotton Jan. 2
2 p.m. Arlington, TX Oklahoma State vs. Mississippi FOX $3,000,000 AutoZone Liberty Jan. 2
5:30 p.m. Memphis, TN East Carolina vs. Arkansas ESPN $1,350,000 International Jan. 2
Noon Toronto, Canada South Florida vs. Northern Illinois ESPN2 $750,000 Papajohns.com Jan. 2
2 p.m. Birmingham, AL Connecticut vs. South Carolina ESPN $300,000 Valero Alamo Jan. 2
9 p.m. San Antonio, TX Texas Tech vs. Michigan State ESPN $2,250,000 Tostitos Fiesta Jan. 4
TBD Glendale, AZ TCU vs. Boise State FOX $17,000,000 FedEx Orange Jan. 5
8 p.m. Miami, FL Georgia Tech vs. Iowa FOX $17,000,000 GMAC Jan. 6
7 p.m. Mobile, AL Central Michigan vs. Troy ESPN $750,000 Citi National Championship Jan. 7
8 p.m. Pasadena, CA Texas vs. Alabama ABC $17,000,000

22 bowl games with at least a million dollar payout.

do we need to get into ticket sales, booster donations, alumni donations, state and federal funding, concession sales, and the list goes on and on and on and on

JerseyLove · 09-15-10, 12:14 PM

agree who cares, it was in the past :0

pavyracer · 09-15-10, 12:16 PM

Well the Patriots kept the Superbowl trophy after cheating to beat the Rams so I see nothing wrong with Bush keeping the Heisman trophy.

Bluehorseshoe · 09-15-10, 02:00 PM

I want to know why Vince Young is so giddy at the prospect of getting it. Who wants to win that by default?

unde0087 · 09-15-10, 02:32 PM

If he would have come out and not lied about the whole situation for years then he probably wouldn't have to give it up. That is what happens when you are caught cheating and lie about it. Classic example Barry Bonds. If that dipshit would have just owned up to his obvious cheating then he would have already been forgiven by most instead he is a joke and was driven from the game and will never be in the hall of fame. Its just funny how many of these athletes think that just because they make so much money that they can get away with anything and end up embarrassing the shit out of themselves.

jjgold · 09-15-10, 02:38 PM

He had no choice
USC probably could of sued him if he was defiant.

MartinBlank · 09-15-10, 02:51 PM

Million Dollar bowl payouts mean nothing.

A school/university will spend 750K to get their kids out to the game. A school is lucky to break even with a mid-tier bowl game. The 20 million dollar BCS payout are shared among conference members----so if Ohio State gets 20 million for the Fiesta Bowl---Indiana is getting an equal share of that money. I am lazy, but if you google the costs associated with these schools you will see how badly they are hemmorhaging money on non-revenue sports.

Here is one small example.

Attending the GMAC Bowl last year actually cost Central Michigan money---they didn't profit a single dime from attending the bowl game---

SNworks

http://www.cm-life.com/2010/03/19/gmac-bowl-costs-athletics-department-188903/

Schools can not drop non-revenue producing programs because of Title IX.

They can't balance their books by dropping field hockey---they are forced to drop men's programs to allow women to generate the same numbers as men participants.

No federal court in this land will allow any modifications of title IX-----and the Supreme Court has decided this issue.

Carseller4 · 09-15-10, 11:22 PM

Just look on the bright side......At least OJ Simpson still has his. Wait...didn't he sell it?

mikejamm · 09-15-10, 11:25 PM

Fuk'in a right he should keep it! He won it based on performance, not some bullshit that USC pulled! I'd be damn if I'd give it back! Fuk them! Good thread statnerds!

muldoon · 09-16-10, 01:58 AM

After the insider at the MLB leaked the documents to deadspin about how teams fudge their numbers using shady accounting, I'm a bit of a skeptic that only 9 schools made money.