SJ Heisman balloting

Most Heisman voters are working games on Saturdays, not sitting in front of a TV. So they wind up relying on statistics.

For a defensive player to win the Heisman, some statheads need to develop some SABRmetric style stats for football. Tackles and sacks alone can't compete with what offensive players put up each week.

 

If only sports information departments would put out packages of highlights and stats to tout their player's attributes.

 

There is a Tebow, I mean, a God.

Well, no, there's not, but this is proof that someone somewhere has a sense of humor about these things.

 

He'll have a game each week, with a great view while wearing a baseball cap and carrying a clipboard. Playing in it is another matter.

 

By the way, has Billy Sims lost his flippin mind?
I figured last year was a one-time thing because an Oklahoma kid won it.
But nope. An Alabama player wins it and he starts screaming like a mad man again.

I guess this is going to be a yearly ritual now. Fun.

 

He did get to go out to dinner with Colt McCoy.. hmmm...

 

Yeah, I mentioned him earlier but didn't get to follow up because I got caught up in the Miami documentary. They had him seated right behind Mark Ingram in the audience, and every time the camera was on Ingram, you'd see Sims in the background mugging for the camera or talking loudly to no one in particular.

 

Chris Weinke & Jason White aren't in the NFL but Carson Palmer, Matt Leinart, Reggie Bush & Troy Smith are. I guess Bradford wasn't there because technically he's not done with college yet.

 

So an SEC Heisman finalists cries and thanks God.

Except because it's not Tebow, he gets a pass.

I like Ingram just fine and I'm happy he won. I do so enjoy the dichotomoy, though. Or maybe I can't understand why so many people seem to genuinely dislike Tebow for reasons that are totally out of his control.

 

After viewing the vote totals it's pretty clear that the only reason Tebow was even invited was because he is a former winner.

 

I thought this was the best "production" of the event perhaps ever.
The bio-blasts of footage were scaled down and the kids got to talk more.
I thought all 5 were interesting sorts to speak with, with McCoy the most pedestrian.
Suh is really down to earth and I loved Ingram's mid-show sit-down interview.
Gerhart trekking around the Stanford campus was nice to see. I had no idea the guy was a baseballer, too.
No idea until tonight.

 

When Mark Ingram starts penciling scriptures into his eyeblack, begs for attention for all his awesome deeds for lepers and becomes the most overrated athlete in the milky way, I'll dislike him as much as I dislike Tebow.