While you're asking the player to turn down a new house for his family that lives in an 800 sq ft apartment, and the colleges are making millions off of his talents? No, it doesn't amount to much.

On first blush, it seems to me that nobody could reasonably believe that the parents of an adult child can enter into an agreement promising that their child, who would be barred from entering into any agreement regarding future representation due to NCAA rules, would in the future make such an agreement based on the parent's representation that he would.

That does not seem to be reasonable reliance on a promise of future performance by someone not a party to that agreement.

I think these numbnuts invested money hoping that that investment would lead to their being able to represent Reggie Bush, but I think that is all they had was an investment and no enforceable promise.

Yeah, it's really unfortunate that those bloodsuckers can't tell a private citizen what he can't do for a living.

If Bush played in that game they would. That is if his family was receiving money. They took away Oklahoma's Big 8 championship for roughly the same thing back in 73.

I understand the story and I don't like the situation. But the NCAA will possibly rule that Bush became a professional and was therefore no longer elgible. Thereby USC forfeits all games he played. Unlikely to generate future season penalties for USC though.