Most Overrated Award in Sports

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The Heisman Trophy.

I honestly don't give a dang about it. I am much more interested in Conference players of the year, all Conference Teams, All-America Teams, and positional awards like the Davey O'Brien, Maxwell, Bednarik etc...
 
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GoBigOrangeVols said:
The Heisman Trophy.

I honestly don't give a dang about it. I am much more interested in Conference players of the year, all Conference Teams, All-America Teams, and positional awards like the Davey O'Brien, Maxwell, Bednarik, Thorpe, etc...
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fyp
 
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cotton said:
A good friend of mine was nominated for an ESPY. It was the longest play from scrimmage in the SEC that year. As I understand it, there were 21 players on the field and many coaches on the sideline surprised by this little gem:

YouTube - Bill Marinangel-Vanderbilt Football 1996
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Great call! Nice run! If Vandy had only beat Bama that day it would have been Priceless!
 
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alaVOL said:
Great call! Nice run! If Vandy had only beat Bama that day it would have been Priceless!
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I don't think it was called. It was one of those "rule" fakes, where if you get a certain look in a certain situation, the punter has the option. The look was there, the situation wasn't (he was on his own 19.)
 
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Most Overrated? How could something be overrated that's voted on by self serving talking heads and writers.....also a lot of the same opinions that play a big part in the MNC.
 
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Sears Trophy.

Two 1-loss BCS conference teams playing for it, and five other 1-loss BCS conference teams missing out.
 
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The Heisman has become a "political" event more than an award to a great player. This goes before Peyton was a pup.
 
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I swear, these Heisman voters sit down and look at who quarterbacks the top BCS conference teams. Then they fill out the ballot accordingly.

The top five in 1982 were:
Herschel Walker
John Elway
Eric Dickerson
Anthony Carter
Dave Rimington

The top five in 1996 were:
Danny Wuerffel
Troy Davis
Jake Plummer
Orlando Pace
Warrick Dunn

Pace is the last lineman to place in the top five, and (outside of Woodson) is I believe the last non-receiver/QB/running back to be in that spot.
 
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droski said:
stop being bitter about peyton.
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Forget Manning. My dad is still bitter about Johnny Majors being shafted.

I have personally believed it to be a dumb, criterion-less, beauty-contest award since long, long before Manning ever set foot in Knoxville. The ESPN hype machine has long since proven how right I was.
 
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Although really, the Heisman does have some de facto criteria. They should call it "Award That Goes To The Best Tailback At A Major BCS School, Unless No Tailback Is Having A Particularly Good Season, In Which Case It Goes To A Tailback Who Has Set A Major Career Record, And If There Isn't One Of Those Either, Then It Goes To One Of The Starting Quarterbacks In The National Championship Game." I bet if you applied that algorithm to the last 15 football seasons, you'd get 12 or 13 of the winners right.

Unfortunately it might be hard to fit all of that on the bottom of the trophy.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Although really, the Heisman does have some de facto criteria. They should call it "Award That Goes To The Best Tailback At A Major BCS School, Unless No Tailback Is Having A Particularly Good Season, In Which Case It Goes To A Tailback Who Has Set A Major Career Record, And If There Isn't One Of Those Either, Then It Goes To One Of The Starting Quarterbacks In The National Championship Game." I bet if you applied that algorithm to the last 15 football seasons, you'd get 12 or 13 of the winners right.

Unfortunately it might be hard to fit all of that on the bottom of the trophy.
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What's your take on the Thrope award? This should be interesting......:whistling: :popcorn:
 
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alaVOL said:
What's your take on the Thrope award? This should be interesting......:whistling: :popcorn:
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Eh, I don't really have a problem with the Thorpe -- at least we all know what "best defensive back" is supposed to mean. Berry lost the award tonight because he played on a crummy, irrelevant team. If we'd gone 9-3, Berry would probably have won.
 
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Your exactly right, that goes to the person that started the thread. The Heisman Trophy is done in every wrong way possible. There should be no voting involved, it should be given to the kid that has the absolute best year and most of the time it being a QB, it should go to the kid that has the most passing yards, fewest int's, best completion percentage and most passing attempts. In that case last year it would have went to Colt Brennan and not Tim Goody Two Shoes Tebow.
 
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fulmermaniac said:
Your exactly right, that goes to the person that started the thread. The Heisman Trophy is done in every wrong way possible. There should be no voting involved, it should be given to the kid that has the absolute best year and most of the time it being a QB, it should go to the kid that has the most passing yards, fewest int's, best completion percentage and most passing attempts. In that case last year it would have went to Colt Brennan and not Tim Goody Two Shoes Tebow.
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Heck. No.
 
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hatvol96 said:
Jim Brown is laughing heartily at that assertion.
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Ditto Jim Parker, if he were still alive.

But then again, I have this delusion that the best player in college football should get the Heisman.

Parker in 1956, Pace in 1996, Bryant McKinnie in 2001, and so on.
 
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