Tebow, denied a chance for two!
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Controversy?…at the Heisman Award? GET OUT!
The He15man, is now the Heisman again. Sam Bradford took home the hardware, and with the gaudy numbers it was a legit win,…or was it? Yes, it was/is!
Sam Bradford, of the slingin’ Stoops’es, took the award home Saturday night, as the second consecutive Sophomore QB to earn the award. Bradford is a Redshirt Soph, who plays for the XBOX Offense in the BIG12 this year, along with 2 or even 4 OTHER guys who made big names for themselves the past couple of years in that conference!
Tim Tebow got 309 1st place votes in this years VOTE!, Bradford 300, and McCoy 266. Its happened before, where the #1 first vote-getter didn’t win, but it makes you think about a few things….Predominently, the Southwestern portion of the US voters left Tebow OFF their ballots. 154 total, have no Tebow,….and in the Ohio area, also, not a Tebow friendly area. Some say Graham Harrell was left off because he was “not from a BIG School”, and there are some who feel there should have been an African-American in the mix too.- Conspiracy theorists aren’t in short supply!
Graham Harrell had an awesome season,….just not Heisman worthy. He did have 7 MORE passing TD’s this year than Time Tebow did (who WAS invited), but 11 were against the sub’Div 1 teams they played….SURE!, they all count, and everyone plays lower rungs teams at times. Tebow ran in 12 TD’s, to help balance out the numbers, AND led his team to te BCS Final…..and looked all Braveheart during the rainstorm in Tallahassee a few weeks ago! Did that impress the Southwest voters?….apparently NOT enUFf!
Some voter’s, like Lee Corso, sent in their ballots before the final week of the season,…or, the Championship Weekend (which technically is post-season, while still being “during the season????)….anyway, he was convicted in his choice!….but, you have to ask, why?…Worried that the ballot wouldn’t be counted (I understand its done electronically now, so….mail delivery probably wasn’t a big deal,…but maybe a hanging chad was?…anyway!) or was he worried that his mind would be changed as a result of the Final weekend? This is the bothersome part. Most of the ballots were cast after, but there was still a good amount sent in ahead of that finish…and that’s odd,….Odd like the 154 cards that ommitted Tebow all together. It seems that those who voted for Teeb’s #1, also included Bradford and McCoy on their “cards”, but at least a large number that voted McCoy or Sammy #1, left Tebow off entirely. Did they really think he was undeserving?….of even a 3rd place vote, or was there more motivation?
If African-Americans can use race here, and say that it was an issue at “some” level, and get away with it,…why can’t it ALSO be possible to think that some of “it” went agaisnt Tebow in a “We hate him, we’re not voting him in ANYWHERE”, kinda way? I’d be willing to bet it was MORE of a factor than the race issue being played.
Nothing is ever (anymore) going to make everyone “happy”, all the time. Nothing! You could hand a gold bar to everyone in a room, and some one would feel they were wronged, some how. We don’t get to “pick” one thing over the other, but if UFlorida can somehow manage to beat OU in the BCS Final, this “loss” will mean very little. If “The Sam” takes the title (too), then both stink!…and Texas fans will still think they got gyped!