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Originally Posted by ant80
If Bush is found guilty, does this mean he will have to forfeit his heisman?
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The Heisman trophy is voted on by past Heisman winners and others with voting priviliges. It is not an NCAA award. Thus, no notoreity, up to and including allegations of murder would cause an award winner to relinquish that prize.
And, all other matters aside, it would likely require a significant institutional tie-in with this story for USC to be asked to forego the results of all their games in which Bush participated. And by significant institutional tie-in I mean something along the lines of an awareness on the part of USC that Bush was living in a residence paid for by a future agent, or agent-wannabe. There is currently no evidence that USC was aware of such a financial relationship, if any existed, between Bush's mother and Michael Michaels. No-one knows what rent was paid by the Bush's and thus we cannot establish if that rent was fair, or if it was simply below market rate, or free. Certainly, from the AD's point of view, there can be little doubt that Bush was housed on or near campus throughout his career at USC. Compare and contrast this situation with the Ohio State Basketball issues after the Bosnian Agent - O'Brien business became public knowledge.