Make it make sense

[Unconditional Surrender]

You have a guy with 20+ rushing TDs
Mentioned in the same breath as Henry and Fornette
Only behind 1 player in rushing TDs
Over 1000 yards on the season

Yet no respect when it comes to the Heisman

Sampson at this point you deserve a seat in NY.

If he is player of the game next week, he will go to New York.

 

[LivinginthePast]

He needs a two hundred yard break out game

 

[perico]

UT needs a Heistman like a fish needs a bicycle. Two words; Manning &Majors

Don't forget our 3rd runner up, Heath Shuler (though he wasn't really a better player than Ward that season).

 

[BigOrangeFanatic]

It’s a QB award plain and simple

Yep. End of thread. And it's whoever ESPN decides to latch on to and push.

 

[lvocd]

You have a guy with 20+ rushing TDs
Mentioned in the same breath as Henry and Fornette
Only behind 1 player in rushing TDs
Over 1000 yards on the season

Yet no respect when it comes to the Heisman

Sampson at this point you deserve a seat in NY.

I hate to say it, and hope I'm wrong, but I think his smaller physical stature lessens him in the eyes of many voters.

If he were a big, bruising back that was mowing down defenses on his way to the end zone, that kind of thing impresses people. Sampson is a bit smaller, and while he scores a lot and is a Vol legend already, I have a feeling his semi-quiet way of going about scoring is making him less of a major star to some people.

It's ridiculous, I know. But voters often seem to go for a certain type in these things, and Sampson is doing his thing almost under the radar.

 

[GleasonVol]

I think he should just carry our run game to a championship instead.

 

[UT_King]

It's going to take stringing together some playoff runs for UT to gain real national respect again. We were irrelevant for just too long and we've lost that national brand recognition. Watch pretty much any national college football show and UT is barely mentioned. Same goes for playoff rankings when they start comparing teams, we will not be getting the brand advantage.

 

[volbound1700]

The issue is that I think players need to have multiple years of hype around them to get traction with the Heisman sometimes. That our just have a Lamar Jackson type year.