Heisman Trust to Revisit Vince Young's Award

by Barking Carnival Staff on Jun 3, 2010 2:13 PM CDT in Texas Longhorns and Other Football

...currently being held by Reggie Bush. From the World Wide Leader.

The president of the Heisman Trophy Trust said Thursday that if former USC Trojans running back and Heisman winner Reggie Bush were to be ruled retroactively ineligible by the NCAA, a review of Bush's award could commence as early as Tuesday.

The NCAA ruling on USC's shenanigans, specifically Reggie Bush, should come out tomorrow. I expect a slap on the wrist but hope for an SMU-styled death penalty, Pete Carroll being drawn and quartered, and Vince Young getting prima nocta rights to the Kardashian sisters and the USC song girls with the proviso that their first born males sign with the University of Texas.

Why not?

The Heisman Trophy Trust will look closely at what Bush was found by the NCAA to have individually done to violate NCAA rules, including whether he received extra benefits. On the Heisman Trophy ballot, it is stated that "the recipients must be in compliance with the bylaws defining an NCAA student athlete."

Plus, how can Michael Jordan in cleats not win the Heisman? Even if he's not a citizen of this planet.

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This would not suck. But I’m not getting my hopes up.

Expectation management is a good skill to have.

by Levander Williams on Jun 3, 2010 2:42 PM CDT reply actions

“Vince Young getting prima nocta rights to the Kardashian sisters…”

Is this a theme? Give VY what Reggie never should’ve had in the first place?

by NateHeupel on Jun 3, 2010 2:45 PM CDT reply actions

If it’s wrong to get a boner watching that video, I don’t want to be right.

by Woody Bombay on Jun 3, 2010 2:59 PM CDT reply actions

As much as I would love to see Vince get some form of recompense, the idea that Reggie Bush would lose his Heisman while O.J. Simpson would still be on the list of winners makes me laugh.

by srr50 on Jun 3, 2010 3:18 PM CDT reply actions

Is it just me or was Billy Pittman in a lot of those highlights? He didn’t even get a shot in the NFL did he?

by Holdem on Jun 3, 2010 3:28 PM CDT reply actions

Does anyone know of a situation where a Heisman winner was later proven to be ineligible? I can’t think of one offhand.

In any case – and assuming that Bush will be the first, it doesn’t mean that the Trust will be willing to establish a precedent by withdrawing the award. Even if they do pull it, there’s still no guarantee that they award the 2005 trophy to Vince – they’d probably just designate 2005 as a ‘no winner’ year.

by Levander Williams on Jun 3, 2010 3:29 PM CDT reply actions

Holdem, scroll to the 3:10 mark and it’ll give you the reason Pittman didn’t sniff the League.

by Trips Right on Jun 3, 2010 3:32 PM CDT reply actions

Prima nocta is perfect, in principle. But ‘Braveheart’ did a great disservice to the legislation by having that one lady be the “victim.” Ugly, even for medieval

If I’m screenplaying this thing, I have Longshanks and the Princess tag up on Murron. That would have pissed off WW enough, and we could have been saved from the heinous site of her having her throat slit.

by magnusbleuveigner on Jun 3, 2010 4:20 PM CDT reply actions

Good call, Trips. Getting caught by one corner may not be a sin. Getting caught by two corners…uh-oh.

by uthookem on Jun 3, 2010 4:21 PM CDT reply actions

Can someone fix the typo in that last post for magnus?

Thanx.

by Levander Williams on Jun 3, 2010 4:36 PM CDT reply actions

Blow me.

by magnusbleuveigner on Jun 3, 2010 4:37 PM CDT reply actions

Vasherized- “Careful, he will.”

Full circle and stuff.

by magnusbleuveigner on Jun 3, 2010 4:39 PM CDT reply actions

I’ve been waiting for two weeks to drop that one.

by Levander Williams on Jun 3, 2010 4:45 PM CDT reply actions

If offered, I hope VY politely declines.

by Sailor Ripley on Jun 3, 2010 4:50 PM CDT reply actions

I knew you’d catch me sooner or later. Dammit, I was re-reading everything I wrote once for me, once for BC standards, and once for Levander.

I feel like a weight has been lifted.

by magnusbleuveigner on Jun 3, 2010 4:52 PM CDT reply actions

I hope VY accepts. With the NC title and Heisman, he can give Reggie the milkshake speech.

by Dirty Sanchez on Jun 3, 2010 5:01 PM CDT reply actions

I always thought Pittman’s greatest ability was to find open space when VY inevitably free lanced. Not a skill that really translates to the professional game.

by blackscholes on Jun 3, 2010 5:20 PM CDT reply actions

I never tire of watching little people chase Vince Young.

by BEHorn on Jun 3, 2010 7:14 PM CDT reply actions

That picture still gets to me. Vince honestly thought he was about to win the Heisman. As he should have. God dammit.

by lowery on Jun 3, 2010 11:26 PM CDT reply actions

lowery, I was struck by the same thing. Vince Young had the greatest statistical season in the history of the quarterback position and Reggie Bush won because he played most of his games in Los Angeles. It was fucking stupid.

by Kevin Berger on Jun 4, 2010 12:15 AM CDT reply actions