I don’t believe in the no/less/more either. USC/Bush has tried to sweep this under the rug, lie about it, not fess up, and for most schools that means the penalty is harsher, and theirs should be as well.

I never wrote the NCAA should “look the other way”. In fact, USC should get the same sanction as Memphis, Florida State, Alabama, and Oklahoma, that is, vacating the victories Reggie Bush played in from whatever time it can be established that he and his family received the ‘extra benefits’.

And if you followed that story over the past three years instead of zealously rubbing your hands together like a fly on a piece of you-know-what waiting for the death penalty for USC, you would know that Michaels, the money guy, and Reggie, came to an out of court settlement with a non-disclosure agreement, and as the NCAA does not have subpoena power, nobody but the other thug, Lloyd Lake, who, yes, is a convicted drug dealer, is talking to the NCAA.

Why didn’t the NCAA, Yahoo, or anyone else in the media ask at the time how Reggie’s parents could afford to go to all the away games to mug for the TV cameras, or about the diamond jewelry Reggie wore to the Heisman ceremony?

As I wrote and will write again, USC should suffer the same penalites as the other schools. No less, no more.

Happy now ?

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=cr-bush042306&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
State records show the Apple Street home was built in late 2004 and early 2005, then purchased by Michaels on March 29, 2005 for $757,500. Around that time, neighbors say Bush’s family moved in. Whether they had visited the house while it was being built is unknown, but there is an inscription in one of the cement slabs in the driveway reading “The Griffins ‘05.”

Michaels is the only person who has been listed on the deed to the home.

Bush’s mother, Denise Griffin, was approached in the driveway of the house on Thursday, but declined to comment.