Reggie Bush, Mike Garrett, You Suck!
Brittni Michaelis
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/404174-reggie-bush-mike-garrett-you-suck
Contributor Written on June 10, 2010
LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 01: Head coach Lane Kiffin addresses the team following the USC Trojans spring game on May 1, 2010 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images) Stephen Dunn/Getty Images
Sure, we lost two years of post season play, numerous scholarships, and our legacy and dominance over the last decade is now being questioned. But the real issue is that our teams deliberately broke NCAA rules and the administration did NOTHING to stop it.
Everybody knows you can't have agents in the locker rooms, so why were they there?
Here is my take.
The players who participate in NCAA athletics are young, after all they are 19, 20, and 21 years-old in college. They get caught up in all the hype, fame, and future money that is at their disposal. They are just kids, much like myself. They sometimes don't see the big picture, or don't know all the NCAA rules (which seem like thousands of pages), so they sometimes break them.
With Reggie Bush being in contact with an agent during college, or O.J. Mayo (former star USC basketball player) allegedly receiving money from an agent, they know it's wrong, but a lot of times they are manipulated or are just plain stupid.
College is a place for learning and a place to "grow-up", or at least that's what I have been told. Sure, they made mistakes, but where were the coaches and administrators during this? However, I am in no way excusing Bush's behavior—we will get to this later.
The coaches know the rules, or at least they should. I'm not saying the coaching staff at USC or athletic director Mike Garrett should be completely blamed, but where were they to prevent this from happening? Did they think they wouldn't get caught? Did they think because since they were USC, rules didn't apply to them?
I'm not quite sure, but as a die-hard USC I can say I'm personally very angry.
Not only at Mike Garrett, for not properly being on top of things and monitoring certain situations—especially your biggest athletic stars—but at my beloved Pete Carroll, for not even thinking twice about random characters approaching his players.
I'd like to think he didn't know about it, but that seems unlikely.
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