2008 Heisman Trophy thread

Tebow will win because no player has ever had ESPN campaign for them this hard in the history of the award.

You'd think this kid found Jimmy Hoffa as much as he's been on every single ESPN media property at least twice in the last four days.

 

The award has lost a bit of its luster, to say the least. Much of that is likely because too many guys don't stick around for four years like they did in the 70s and 80s.

I said last year that Bradford would some day win the Heisman, I just didn't think it would be so soon.

Would have been nice to have a fourth, or even fifth, finalist, even just for show and for diversity sake. I would support a rule that requires ONE defensive player to be among the finalists each year.

 

The award has lost its luster since it became an ESPN show that requires "finalists" to be present, so shitheads like Mike Leach can bitch that Graham Harrell "deserves to be there next to those guys."

The Downtown AC used to have a very dignified award presentation and press conference where it would announce the winner -- the only player brought to NY for the ceremony.
Now it's more ESPN bullshit. An hourlong TV show that leaves two or three or four guys sitting there feeling like loosers while the winner gets his trophy.
This is what we call progress?

 

They should have one round of voting on the day the bowls are announced to determine finalists and another later in the week to determine the winner by ranking the five finalists.

 

They're big boys. I think they can handle it. Not everyone gets ice cream -- a lesson kids should learn in 2nd grade, not college.

 

It's been like this long before ESPN. I remember seeing Marshall Faulk and Garrison Hearst flanking Gino Torretta on stage, thinking one of those backs deserves the award ... and then Torretta won it. I don't think ESPN was close to having the award back then.

 

It's not a question of them being big boys and able to handle it.

It's a matter of fucking ESPN bastardizing everything into another fucking self-aggrandizing bullshit TV show.

 

I agree with that part. It's the part about the players feeling like losers that I don't buy.

 

I sincerely doubt any of these three players has felt like a loser, personally, for a nanosecond of their young lives, nor should they have.
Sitting in this ceremony is just spring practice for the Draft Day green room.

 

Not many kids get denied ice cream on national TV.
This process is pretty damned awful.

 

As a voter, that is my sentiment exactly. I voted McCoy, Tebow, Bradford but think it will go Bradford, Tebow, McCoy. Bradford had great numbers, but his supporting cast is unbelievable. One of the reasons he makes such great decisions is that his offensive line gives him so much time to do so. OU can pretty much dictate when it runs or throws, so Bradford is almost always working in advantageous situations. McCoy and Tebow have to create a lot of their teams' offense with their feet.