“Stupidest Lawsuit”: Reggie Bush’s USC Case Faces Scathing Backlash, Raising Pandora’s Box Concerns for NCAA

Former NFL player Reggie Bush’s latest anti-NCAA-USC-Pac 12 drive has already been backfiring big time on social media. Although Bush’s strained equation with his former school has been a recurring theme in the CFB realm, the 39-year-old demanding his decade-old NIL compensation took the matter to a whole another level. Meanwhile, Bush’s attorney Evan Selik justified the move by saying it was never meant to satisfy any personal goal. Rather, he did it to set an example of fair trade with the young college athletes in the future.

Most of the fans rejected the theory of Bush and see him getting desperate for the extra flow of money and attention since his NFL career was not up to the mark. Some of them also see it as the former Heisman Trophy winner’s super-ego taking over seeing the new talents obtain all the benefits he missed out on. However, veteran analyst Jason Whitlock pinpointed what’s specifically wrong here, going at the meat of the bedlam.

Why Reggie Bush’s latest lawsuit is a hollow cry?

After the former USC player filed the infamous lawsuit, his legal team accused the defendants of bringing on ”

substantial profits for these organizations, all directly linked to Reggie Bush’s prominence” and kept on relishing his monetary effects even after he left the building. However, the sense in the statement is subject to a huge question as the law against not using the players’ NIL money was not in force during the early 2000s when Bush used to live in his heyday. That said, the strongest argument could be what Whitlock mentioned in his podcast. ”Reggie Bush agreed to this. If you didn’t like it, don’t sign. If there were enough guys who didn’t like it, they would have had to change the rules.”: the analyst shed light on how the NFL prodigy himself invited the trouble just to complain about it later.

He doesn’t at all see any logic in the grievance and thinks it’s nothing but a forced move since the victim didn’t step out himself and talk about it on the open forum.

“I think this is the stupidest lawsuit. First of all, he wasn’t willing to do any of the work up front, so somebody else had to get all of these things changed, and now he wants to jump in after the fact.

Sensing the fans’ unbridled backlash all over the social media walls, the only concern is ‘

‘if it would really open  Pandora’s Box if this went through.”  Nonetheless, on the other side of the story, despite the nonsense litigation, USC also didn’t do any good to its former recruit.

USC put a semi-perpetual ban on Reggie Bush

On June 10, 2010, the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions sent an ultimatum to USC seeking reasons behind their indifference toward the institutional rules and regulations. It found Bush guilty of the charges of accepting some improper benefits from a potential representative that could have a significant connection to his NFL future. They also ordered the program to cut all ties with Bush. Everything that followed was nothing but a nightmare for a standout figure of the Trojans like Reggie Bush.

Bush endured a 10-year ban from USC in a soul-shattering course of events. He tried to convince the authorities about his innocence but failed. The player disclosed how the tragedy tore apart his confidence and self-image that, on the downstream effect, took a toll on his career in the NFL later on.

However last year, he got free from the distress as they lifted the ban, possibly because of the generous approach of the new authority figure in the USC’s helm. Earlier this year, Bush also got back his Heisman trophy, but it seems he wants more.

It will be interesting to see how it pans out the next, shaping the future of the USC-NCAA-Reggie Bush relationship for the better or the worse.

While we wait to see how things pan out for Bush, check out the ES

ThinkTank episode featuring Doug Sanders, who sheds light on NIL and the fate of teams like Houston Texans.