Negotiations between Saints, Bush agent to heat up

[jdlea]

Originally Posted by Defensewins

jdlea,
I realize you do not care about the rules infractions Reggie commited in college. However his infractions may effect an entire team and University. USC may have to forfeit their two national titles and every game that Bush played in. If the Heisman comittee had any real values and balls they would strip him of the award since he was not a true amatuer.

Which leads me to the reckless way he and his representaive are negotiatieing his contract. Are you still going to be in love with Reggie if he follows through with his threat to sit out the entire year and enter next years draft if he does not get the money. How are the needy New Orleans people going to feel about him if he does that? Selfish? Yes.

Why would want a player on your team that has this kind of selfish attitude?

I've heard about that, but I highly doubt that threat was made because he actually intended to re-enter the draft. That seems like a threat an agent would have made. Kind of like whenever Ramsey's agents asked for him to be traded, but Pat overruled them. If he did follow through with that threat I would think less of him. I would think of that as selfish.

As for USC. If they don't think other players are accepting gifts/money that goes against NCAA rules, they're lying to themselves. I hung out with a few of the football players at Tulane and most of the didn't disillusion people about almuni being very "generous." So, I think it's a problem that an athlete is so brazen that he gets caught, but I don't think it's a big deal because I think most of them are taking money they shouldn't be.

And finally, USC might have to forfeit wins or games or national titles, but they won't be giving back the money that alumni dumped into the program. Or that they were awarded for going to and winning bowl games. The issue here is money. And college athletes deserve more than they get because schools get rich off of them and all they get is a free education. I have academic scholarships, but people don't show up to watch me take tests. I don't make money for schools. Athletes do and they don't really see anything for it. In my opinion, that's just wrong.