To the editor:

After reading Tom Keegan’s July 28 column on the Reggie Bush Heisman Trophy debacle, I had to laugh — not at anything Tom wrote, but at the Heisman Trophy voters. This whole mess could’ve been avoided if they would’ve awarded the ’05 trophy to the man who actually deserved it. Vince Young was the heart and soul of the ’05 national champion Texas Longhorns. Reggie Bush was just one of many multi-talented cogs on that ’05 USC machine.

Vince’s superhero-like game for the ages in the Rose Bowl against that same USC team should’ve been the point when they took the trophy away from Bush. Now, if the Heisman Trophy Trust removes Bush from its Hall of Winners and awards the trophy to the ’05 runner-up Young, he should refuse to accept it and add to their embarrassment.

The degradation of college football’s most hallowed award should serve as a watershed moment for college athletics. Either legitimately make it an amateur athletic association or quit crying in faux indignation whenever it’s exposed as being anything but.

Jeremy Winfrey,

Lawrence