Should Reggie Bush get his Heisman Trophy back?
Yahoo Sports’ Dan Wetzel and Pete Thamel discuss USC’s decision to reinstate the running back following a ten-year ban and if the Heisman trust should return his trophy from 2005.
Video Transcript
PETE THAMEL: When they did this, it was-- it was pretty transformative because it's unlike the Heisman to do anything. Like you can't get the Heisman to like, confirm the color of the trophy. So when they came out and did this, it was surprising.
The Heisman is going to sit back and read the room. And they're going to say, OK, does us giving Reggie back reflect poorly on us? And I think the sentiment about rule breakers in college sports has changed exponentially in the last decade.
Whereas Reggie Bush may have been an outlier when they took it away a decade ago, right now Reggie Bush has looked like a guy who was wronged because the rules are changing and evolving and his family should have been entitled to that.
So I would think if the Heisman did a poll, pun intended, and said, you know, what would your reaction be to Reggie Bush getting his Heisman back, I would think it's 95% positive.
DAN WETZEL: I would agree. I think everything's changed on this and people don't care. And to strip Reggie Bush, when we-- you know he just got caught. I mean, it's just, again-- and I-- unless it's a performance enhancing drug kind of situation, I just hate the rewriting, the stripping of titles, the whole-- I mean, I get it, and that's their precedent. I don't know.