The news broke late this morning, courtesy of Yahoo! Sports, that the Heisman Trust is expected to strip Reggie Bush of his 2005 Heisman trophy and could do so as early as this month.
While it may be expected, it’s not yet been concretely decided.
ESPN College Game Day‘s Chris Fowler said Tuesday that he spoken to some of the eight members of the trust’s Board of Trustees and no vote has been taken on what to do regarding the Bush “situation”. The unnamed trustees also told Fowler that a vote and/or an announcement are not imminent.
A Heisman spokesman reiterated that fact to the Los Angeles Times.
“The Heisman Trophy Trust has yet to make a decision, and until such time they do we have no further comment,” Tim Henning told the paper.
That being said, a regularly-scheduled meeting will still take place at some point in September per Fowler, and there seems to be little doubt that Bush’s Heisman will be discussed. Whether the decision to strip the award away or allow Bush to keep it occurs this month remains to be seen, although it certainly appears it will happen -- one way or the other -- sooner rather than later.
So, there’s still time for Bush to do the right thing and voluntarily relinquish the award.
Tick-tock, Reggie. Tick-tock.