RB Bush chose to College Football Hall of Fame

Reggie Bush, whose Heisman Trophy triumph for Southern California in 2005 was vacated because of NCAA infractions, is among 18 players in the current College Football Hall of Fame class announced Monday.Florida quarterback

Tim Tebow, who won the Heisman in 2007, was likewise chosen to the hall by the National Football Structure, in addition to Dwight Freeney of Syracuse; Luke Kuechly of Boston College; LaMichael James of Oregon; and Michael Bishop of Kansas State.Bush used 2 national championship teams with USC in 2003 and’04, and led the Trojans to another title game in 2005, a season in which he won the Heisman with a spectacular season. He ran for 1,740 backyards, averaged 8.7 lawns per carry and scored 19 touchdowns.He went to become the 2nd overall pick in the NFL draft by the New Orleans Saints after a college profession that saw him run for 3,169 backyards in three seasons, balancing 7.3 backyards per carry, and score 42 touchdowns.The NCAA later investigated USC and Bush and determined he and his family had gotten impermissible take advantage of a marketing representative

while playing for the Trojans.The NCAA struck USC with serious sanctions in 2010 and later the Heisman Trust vacated Bush’s Heisman victory and asked him to return his trophy.

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Among the NCAA charges, USC disassociated with Bush for ten years. That sanction lifted in 2020 and Bush was invited back by the school.The Heisman

win stays vacated, saying it would just return the award if the NCAA reevaluates the charges versus Bush. The NCAA has said it will not be re-evaluating old offenses cases, though there have been calls do to so in light of today’s less-restrictive guidelines around professional athlete compensation for endorsement deals.While Bush is

still not a Heisman winner in the authorities record books, he will be a Hall of Famer.The National Football Structure, which runs the college hall, has be more lax over the last few years in regards to players and coaches who have been attached to NCAA scandals.Former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel was chosen in 2015. He was forced to resign by the school he caused a championship game in 2011 for misleading NCAA investigators.SMU running back Eric Dickerson waited decades before going into the Hall of Popularity in 2021.

Dickerson was never ever discovered to have actually broken NCAA rules, but his association with a program that was closed down in the mid-1980s for offenses that covered his time at the school sufficed to keep him out.The rest of the newest class of college Hall of Famers consists of: Eric Berry of Tennessee; Robert Gallery of Iowa; Derrick Johnson of Texas; Expense Kollar of Montana State; Jeremy Maclin of Missouri; Terrance Mathis of New Mexico; Bryant McKinnie of Miami; Corey Moore of Virginia Tech; Michael Stonebreaker of Notre Dame; Troy Vincent of Wisconsin; Brian Westbrook of Villanova; and DeAngelo Williams of Memphis.The four coaches to be inducted into the Hall of Fame in December will be Monte Carr of Shepherd; Roy Kramer, the Central Michigan coach who became Southeastern Conference commissioner; Mark Richt, who coached Georgia and Miami; and triple-option guru Paul Johnson, who had stints at Georgia Southern, Navy and Georgia Tech.