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Assertions by Michael Michaels – the lead investor in a doomed sports agency and the owner of a Spring Valley, Calif., home occupied by the family of Reggie Bush – could cost the University of Southern California its 2004 Bowl Championship Series national championship.
BCS officials told Yahoo! Sports on Friday that if Bush is ruled ineligible by either the Pacific 10 Conference or the NCAA for even one game during the 2004 season, the BCS will discuss amending its rules to allow it to force the Trojans to vacate the national championship.
"This is the type of thing the BCS might have to look into if other governing bodies, the conference and the NCAA, take action," BCS administrator Bill Hancock said.
Previously, Bush's eligibility for the 2005 season, which saw him win the Heisman Trophy and lead USC back to the BCS title game, had been questioned because of Michaels' statement that Bush's family failed to pay $54,000 in rent from April 2005 to April 2006.
Michaels' claims, which he has promised will be backed up by corroborating evidence, moves the timeline of Bush's potential ineligibility back to the Trojans' 2004 undefeated BCS national championship season.
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Looks like they wouldn't.
I would turn it down without even thinking about it. It doesn't matter if the rules are ridiculous or not, you break them - you pay. Ala Antonio Langham/Albert Means/Crimson Tide/etc. Don't try to tell me that the rules are ridiculous, I've seen it first hand.
There's a lot of guys who have been in that same family situation and have done things the right way. They have waited untill they got to the league, and THEN they provided their families. See Vernon Davis on draft day? Good example.