Reggie Bush won the Heisman Trophy in 2005, but he forfeited the award after an NCAA investigation found that he and his family had received improper benefits.
The 2005 Heisman Trophy will once again be in Reggie Bush's hands. Bush forfeited the award after an NCAA investigation found that he had received improper benefits while playing at USC. after a 2010 NCAA investigation found he and his family had received hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts from a sports agent.
Bush won the award in 2005 after rushing for 1,740 yards and averaging 8.7 yards per carry, but the NCAA vacated his college statistics from late 2004 onward as a result of its investigation. Because of that, the Heisman Trust said he was not eligible to win the 2005 award, leaving no winner that year.
Former Nebraska quarterback Eric Crouch, who won the 2001 Heisman Trophy, posted a photo of Bush receiving the trophy on X:“We are thrilled to welcome Reggie Bush back to the Heisman family in recognition of his collegiate accomplishments,” Michael Comerford, president of the Heisman Trust, said in a statement. “We considered the enormous changes in college athletics over the last several years in deciding that now is the right time to reinstate the trophy for Reggie.
“Recognizing that the compensation of student athletes is an accepted practice and appears here to stay, these fundamental changes in college athletics led the Trust to decide that now is the right time to return the Trophy to Bush, who unquestionably was the most outstanding college football player of 2005,” the Heisman Trophy Trust said in a statement.
Bush will be eligible to attend the Heisman Trophy ceremony starting this year. USC also will get back the Heisman Trophy replica it received after Bush won the award.against the NCAA for saying he took part in a “pay-for-play type arrangement” during his time at USC. The lawsuit stems from a statement made in 2021 by the NCAA in response to reporters’ inquiries about whether Bush’s statistics would be restored after the Supreme Court ruling that allowed college athletes to be paid.
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