So his family went from an appartment to a $750,000 house and he didn't know who was making the house notes? Depending on downpayment etc, on a home in that price range you are talking about a $7,000 house note monthly.
Some guy on 790am, the Dan Patric show, said the person (I didn't catch the name) in charge of the Heisman has been receiving a whole bunch of emails from Texas demanding they hand the Heisman over to Vince.
This comes from the ESPN Report... Bush Apt. The official Heisman ballot includes this wording: "In order that there will be no misunderstanding regarding the eligibility of a candidate, the recepient of the award MUST be a bonafide student of an accredited university. The recepient must be in compliance with the bylaws defining an NCAA student." It'll be interesting how this story is sustained in the draft...Funny how ESPN doesn't have it on the main page, but the college page...Hell, The Houston Chronicle website doesn't have it...If it was VY, it would be all over the place...
that went out with verifying wonderlic scores. everyone says vy has gotten equal treatment but in the national media no one has been scrutinized like vy. from the wonderlic, to his choosing of an agent. matt lienart was on espn yesterday morning still saying he thinks usc was the better team. if vy said something like that he would get drilled. it was lienart who had the pictures surface after the heisman trophy ceremony. no one made a big deal, not like about vince's shortcomings.
You're saying this in a thread about scrutinzing Reggie Bush's Family Home. Look, they all get scrutinized. If Bush got a 6 or picked a bad agent he would have been raked over the coals as well. Why do you think your guys (Stevie, Vince) are always the victims?
There's a video clip on the front page of espn.com, with Reggie talking about this issue. He sounds pretty confident that he hasn't done anything wrong here, and said he is 100% confident this will not have an impact on his eligibility while he was at USC.
This is correct. Bush has largely not the degree of dissection of his game or atttidue of say Young or Leinart. Same has happened with 2nd tier guys. Few people spend much time about flaws with Deangelo Williams, but flaws and concerns about Cutler are talked about all the time. Nature of the positions and the fact QB decision making is layed out there for all to see (and 2nd guess).
But Pgab was saying Leinart doesn't get the same scrutiny either. My point is VY is not getting victimized here. It's part of the draft process.
Leinart did get some negative press when he changed agents from Steinberg to CAA with the implication that he was too "hollywood" for the NFL (unwarranted, IMO) - though not nearly as much as Young did, whose transgression was to pick an agent who was a family friend rather than a jerry maguire type - wow what a b*stard. A google or nexis search would validate this, I believe. As for Bush, when was the last time you heard his (or any RB prospects) Wonderlick score? Never. At least when Young's came out, Cutler & Leinarts were magically leaked along with it, for informational purposes, I can only assume. Nor did you hear people saying he's too slow, which is what the ESPN headline was after Vince's pro day. I mean, for god's sake. Vince Young is too slow to play in the NFL? Even the resident Young bashers like IC2000 knew that that line was simply too much.
Yeah he does sound pretty confident, but so did Clinton when he said the infamous "I did not have sexual relations..." And he maybe telling the absolute truth. The only question mark I have is that he didn't answer who was making the payments. It's a pretty simple answer, either the family was paying for it or someone else was paying for it.
Of course, Vince didn't score a legitimate 6, and it's debatable as to whether his agent is bad. That didn't stop the media from running with those things, though. I don't understand why, but VY is a victim here, because we still haven't seen one reputable source report that the 6 was accurate... yet the talk continued for weeks. That's called bias.
I've heard several analysts say that they've never seen a guy scrutinized like vince young. you would have a hard time saying anyone in this draft is. look at cutler for instance. that guy has shot up the board based on workouts and the combine. everything you've heard is positive. not one person out of a vanderbuilt fan could tell me anything about how this guy actually played during the regular season. what are the questions about cutler, what are they about lienart? yeah bush is a running back so its a different animal.
I thought I heard on the radio that they were "renting the house" and that it would be about a $2500 a month. So if the family can prove they paid that, they can skirt by this. I guess I need to do some more reading up on this, I've been kind of avoiding it.
