How Reggie Bush's Heisman Reveals New Landscape of NIL, NCAA

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🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The world watched as Reggie Bush's Heisman Trophy was revoked in 2010 after an NCAA investigation that uncovered improper gifts to Bush. Now, 14 years later, we watched him finally get it back. The Heisman Trust announced last week the formal reinstatement of Bush's trophy, citing "enormous changes in the college football landscape" as the reason. So today, ESPN's Ryan McGee is here to tell the story of where we once were and how the NCAA evolved to allow for Reggie Bush to get his trophy back, and what will come next as college athletes’ power continues to grow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ryan, you've seen more college football literally than anyone I know.
0:04.0	Go ahead and lie to America and tell them that you've seen a better running back than
0:08.1	Reggie Bush in your time.
0:09.1	Yeah, dude, I have this argument with people all the time, like it's to me, the two most electrifying
0:16.8	running backs of my lifetime are Reggie Bush and Barry Sanders.
0:24.0	Barry Sanders. Barry Sanders was pre-internet.
0:26.0	So those guys get penalized, right?
0:28.0	I remember in high school us like rushing home on a Saturday night to watch Sports Center just to see the
0:34.6	Barry Sanders highlights out of Stillwater because they weren't on TV every week. up again. Sanders running room, look out, could go. One man to beat he does.
0:45.0	Touchdown, Oklahoma State. The OSU offense exploding, three plays going 74 yards and we are just underway at Stillwater.
0:57.4	But Reggie Bush was that multiplied because he was an internet dude.
1:05.0	Oh, baby.
1:07.0	Oh, baby!
1:08.0	We knew about Reggie.
1:12.0	We had all seen Reggie before he ever touched the football at USC.
1:17.0	And so there was a hype that came with him and he was better than the hype.
1:24.4	Reggie Bush is the reason why, well before I ever moved to Southern California,
1:28.6	I knew San Diego zip code.
1:30.2	Yeah, Helix High School.
1:32.0	Like, he's so good. We all know what he looks high. I don't know where he looks high school is. I know what's in San Diego. I never been there, but I kind of want a t-shirt.
1:42.0	Officially ended this afternoon with the arrival
1:44.0	the prestigious silver pigskin at Felix High
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