One-time USC soccer nice Reggie Bush will once more be generally known as a Heisman Trophy winner, regaining the faculty sport’s high honor after an improper advantages scandal tarnished his storied beginner profession, officers mentioned Wednesday.
The Trojans working again was named faculty soccer’s finest participant in 2005, convincingly successful the vote over star quarterbacks of the time resembling Texas’ Vince Younger, Bush’s teammate Matt Leinart, Notre Dame’s Brady Quinn and Penn State’s Michael Robinson.
However 5 years later, that honor was taken away from Bush within the wake of allegations that his household obtained advantages from an agent whereas he was nonetheless a student-athlete at Southern Cal.
USC had surrendered its reproduction of the trophy it had displayed on campus and Bush was not invited to Heisman Trophy ceremonies.
Heisman officers mentioned it was troublesome to keep up sanctions towards Bush when fashionable faculty athletes are benefiting from their title and likeness.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Reggie Bush again to the Heisman household in recognition of his collegiate accomplishments,” Heisman Trophy Belief president Michael Comerford mentioned in a press release.
“We thought-about the big adjustments in faculty athletics over the past a number of years in deciding that now’s the suitable time to reinstate the Trophy for Reggie. We’re so pleased to welcome him again.”
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