“We experienced some of the greatest moments in college football history together,” Leinart said. “We won championships and awards together and did things a lot of guys have never been able to do. Now 13 years later, we’re both married and have kids and it comes full circle where we’re back together every Saturday for college football. We’ve always remained friends and stayed in touch, but it’s great that we’re back together again as teammates.
The NCAA’s sanctions against USC and Bush, punishing him for what he did as a 19- and 20-year-old student-athlete, were viewed by many as just short of the “death penalty,” but the NCAA previously ordered schools to disassociate from former student-athletes for a period of anywhere between one to 10 years.
I was a student at USC when Leinart and Bush were teammates. I’ve had the chance to go back to the school recently when my schedule allows and teach a Tuesday night journalism class. The amount of No. 5 jerseys I still see on campus over a decade later amazes me. Bush would like to see that for himself one day. He said he would love to go back to campus with his wife and show his three kids where their dad went to school.
ArashMarkazi ncaa needs to be disbanded. USC should go independent. I’m sure there would be at least 100 top major sports programs that can create a better sports governing program that would be more in line with today’s athlete & sports programs. Athletes help ncaa make billions.
ArashMarkazi USC_Athletics he is the reason so many people are usc fans. Wake up and let a legend back in and hold yourselves accountable for once.
ArashMarkazi This is crazy to me can O.J. come back to the school? What about USC having students pretend to be on teams and taking extra money but Bush takes care of his fam for sacrificing his body and still banned I HATE THE NCAA SO MUCH
ArashMarkazi He should be ashamed of himself and should be punished forever for generating millions of dollars for his university/NCAA in return for an “education” and then asking that his own value be compensated and while looking out for his parents. What a disgrace this guy is. Haha