And this is from Profootballtalk.com - It is my understanding that PFT is run by a group of sports agents or folks closely related to agents that have inside info. There are links inside the article so you may want to directly to the site.
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BUSH UPDATE
It's another day, so there's another fresh round of information regarding the Reggie Bush scandal.
Citing a source familiar with NCAA compliance issues, the Los Angeles Daily News reports that USC could face serious sanctions. This contradicts a Monday report from ESPN.com's Joe Schad, who said that the Trojans likely won't land in any horse poop.
The key is whether the Trojans knew or should have known about the situation (if, of course, Bush's family was living for free or at below-market rent in the house owned by prospective marketing agent Michael Michaels).
"If, and it's a big if, USC knew or should have known about this, then anything is possible," the source told the Daily News. "If any of the coaches or staff members knew about it and didn't do anything about it, or conducted an investigation that was faulty, that would be egregious, a potentially major violation."
But if USC ultimately is required to forfeit any of its 2005 games, the program will not have to return its cut of the Rose Bowl money. "While schools can be forced to return revenues from the NCAA basketball tournament," the Daily News explains, "the NCAA isn't the sanctioning body for bowl games.
Still, nothing will happen in the near term, so we continue to believe that Bush gains nothing at all by talking about it. We had a chance to eyeball his performance on ESPN and FOX's Best Mutherf--kin' Sports Show, Period (we know that's not the real title, but we like the sound of it).
We weren't impressed by Reggie's words -- or his demeanor.
On ESPN, Bush declined to say who paid the rent for the house in which his family had been living. On FOX, Reggie said (to a round of applause from the audience and crotch nuzzling from the hosts) that he has "nothing to hide."
Reg, if you have "nothing to hide," then why not say who paid the rent?
Another telling comment, in our view, came during the ESPN interview, when Bush said that success leads to people who might try to "latch on to you" and "get something from you." That sounds to us like a reference to Michael Michaels, the owner of the house in which Bush's family lived, and it implies that something had been going on between the Bush bunch and Michaels before this story broke.
So what does any of this mean in the short term? We still don't know. If the story continue to grow as the week unfolds, there's a chance that the growing cloud over Bush's previously pristine image could be a factor in the Houston Texans' decision-making process at the No. 1 spot in the draft. If, for example, the Texans are troubled by the manner in which Bush is handling the questions being posed to him (either by the media or, possibly, by the Texans themselves), it could be the breeze that nudges them off of the fence -- and that prompts them to pull the trigger on defensive end Mario Williams.
If nothing else, the Texans have acquired some significant leverage in their contract talks with Bush's agent, Joel Segal. For more on this, read on.
Texans better take Bush. I have 450 Svo Bucks ($V) riding it.
