The NCAA, according to published reports, has hit the USC Trojans football team hard with sanctions from the Pete Carroll era centered around improper benefits that Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush received while playing football at the school.
The sanctions include a two-year bowl ban for the football team along with the loss of 30 scholarships over the course of three years.
The Trojans have to forfeit all games Bush played in once he became ineligible in 2004. Which means the Trojans will have to forfeit their 2004 National Championship.
The controversial Lane Kiffin became the Trojans head football coach on January 12, 2010 to replace Carroll who departed the Trojans for the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks.
Kiffin new the Trojans were under investigation when he accepted the job. He accrued several minor NCAA infraction in his lone season as the coach of the Tennessee Volunteers.
USC athletic director Mike Garrett continues to hold onto his job even with Carroll gone and former men’s basketball coach Tim Floyd resignation in the wake of the O.J. Mayo scandal.
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