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.
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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.
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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.