Vince Young’s mother spoke with Fox 26 Houston yesterday about the controversy surrounding the rumor that the Heisman Trust will take away the award from Reggie Bush. She made one thing very clear, she and Vince Young want nothing to do with revoking Bush’s trophy. In what can only be described as an insightful motherly perspective, she shared her and her son’s stance:
“We’re not interested in having no honor and no glory out of somebody else they are trying to tear down, no,” Felicia Young said. “I said they did not give Vincent the Heisman when he was there even though I know that my son, he was the one who should have had the Heisman, but God didn’t see it that way. He gave it to Reggie Bush. So we stand and honor Reggie Bush for being the Heisman (winner),” Felicia Young said. “For them to come down here these few years later, for whatever their reasons and their motives, they’re not to tear down that young man. That man has got to stand up in the world today. I know that my son is not thinking about the Heisman because God blessed him with even more than just that piece of wood.
“He blessed him with the National Championship.”
In a world where parents try to live vicariously through their children, trying to soak up every moment of glory with them, Felicia Young is different. She doesn’t see Bush’s situation as a opportunity for former college glory for her son. She gets that her son doesn’t have to have it all. He may not have gotten the Heisman, but a National Championship instead…and that’s okay. Capitalizing on someone else’s demise isn’t the way to go, especially for something that happened in the past.
I understand that the Heisman Trust is in a difficult position. Once the NCAA ruled that Bush was ineligible, that meant they had a trophy winner that wasn’t even supposed to be on the field. To let him keep the trophy could be viewed as diminishing the importance and value of the trophy.
The obsurd amount of time it took the NCAA to rule on the USC violations is the real culprit of the Heisman’s trust dilemma. If they issued the sanctions within a year of the ‘tainted season’, it wouldn’t seem so ludicrous to take it away.
Sidenote: When they decide to take it away, do they go to his house to get it? Isn’t possession 9/10th of the law? Seriously, does anyone know how this process of revoking will go? Will it involve an episode of ‘Repo Men’?