Pete Carroll, USC’s Mike Garrett meet with NCAA panel
The NCAA’s Committee on Infractions is investigating allegations that former USC athletes Reggie Bush and O.J. Mayo received extra benefits for playing for the Trojans.
Reporting from Tempe, Ariz., and Vancouver, Canada – Athletic Director Mike Garrett, former football coach Pete Carroll and running backs coach Todd McNair were among the members of a USC contingent that was on the hot seat Thursday in Tempe before the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions.
Meantime, former USC tailback Reggie Bush, the focus of many of the allegations that landed USC in the desert for its long-awaited hearing, was at the Winter Olympics in Canada, preparing to take in a hockey game and some ski races.
“There are attorneys, there are lawsuits, there are all those things that keep you from being able to talk,” Bush, the 2005 Heisman Trophy winner, said during a promotional stop at a sponsor’s office in Vancouver, adding, “I’ve tried to do everything I can, on my part, to help USC.
LATimes.com
2/19/10
Magnolia Tribune
