Reggie Bush Scandal Fallout: Who Gets the Heisman Trophy He'll Forfeit?

New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush, the 2005 Heisman Trophy winner, reportedly will be stripped of the award due to violations of N.C.A.A. policy, namely accepting $290,000

 in gifts from sports marketers while he played for the Trojans. His alma matter, the University of Southern California, has also been hit hard by the Reggie Bush Scandal.

U.S.C. itself has been stripped of its 2004 Grantland Rice Award, given to it as the national collegiate football champion, as members of the Trojans football program knew of Bush's financial deal and did nothing to stop it.

Aside from forcing the Trojans to lose its national championship due to U.S.C.'s having to forfeit its last two wins of the 2004 season (it also lost all its wins on the record books for the 2005 season), the N.C.A.A.

sanctions against U.S.C. included stripping the school of 30 scholarships over three years and banning it from bowl games in 2010 and 2011. Furthermore, U.S.C. has been put on probation for four years.

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