Bush in camp, Leinart still out

Irish Trojan has the details.

Had a Trojan alum e-mail me yesterday, asking, "Tell me again why the Texans didn't draft Bush?" As best as I could figure, this is

"So much of the city was pulling for Young--wholly unrealistically for about five different reasons--that the Texans got it in their collective heads that they had to sign their pick before the draft or else be met with a shower of boos at their draft party. The idea was to sell Bush hard, wean people off Young.

The irony is, the Texans succeeded in weaning beyond their wildest expectations. Every time Reggie Bush was mentioned, and then when he visited Houston, the local sports broadcasts would run file footage showing 1) his stop-and-start move against Fresno State, and 2) his corner leap against UCLA. By draft week, all but the most myopic Longhorns had come around to Bush as the smart pick. Then the Texans couldn't sign him before draft day--a move that now had become unnecessary--and so they signed Williams, and they STILL heard the boos.

And they get to play twice against Vince and LenDale for the foreseeable future."