{"id":6266,"date":"2011-05-02T16:34:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T20:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6266"},"modified":"2011-05-02T16:34:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T20:34:26","slug":"ncaa-upholds-penalties-for-usc-assist-in-bush-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6266","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Upholds Penalties For USC Assist In Bush Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 The NCAA has upheld its punishment for former Southern California assistant <strong>Todd McNair <\/strong>for his role in the <strong>Reggie Bush<\/strong> case.<\/p>\n<p>The Division I Infractions Appeals Committee announced its decision Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>McNair<\/strong> was punished for what the NCAA claimed was his role in the scandal surrounding the Heisman Trophy-winning tailback. USC was hit with a two-year bowl ban and severe scholarship restrictions, and <strong>McNair <\/strong>was prohibited from contacting recruits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>McNair<\/strong> was an assistant to former coach <strong>Pete Carroll<\/strong> for six seasons, and the NCAA claimed <strong>McNair <\/strong>knew about some of the gifts lavished on <strong>Bush\u2019s <\/strong>family by two aspiring sports marketers hoping to land<strong> Bush<\/strong> as a client.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictured: This Jan. 4, 2006, file photo shows Southern California\u2019s Reggie Bush, right, being consoled by USC running back coach Todd McNair after their 41-38 loss to Texas in the Rose Bowl, in Pasadena, Calif.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 The NCAA has upheld its punishment for former Southern California assistant Todd McNair for his role in the Reggie Bush case. The Division I Infractions Appeals Committee announced its decision Friday. McNair was punished for what the NCAA claimed was his role in the scandal surrounding the Heisman Trophy-winning tailback. USC was hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}