So. Who wins the Heisman?

Well, then.

That kind of shoots your hard-on in the ass.

Or something like that.

 

That doesn't change the fact that there are a lot of terrible voters out there. Does that mean they shouldn't have a vote? I mean....Dick's right. If you narrow the voting field, the idiots who are leftover will begin to infect the entire process and it would likely lead to terrible results. So more voters are probably a good thing despite my irrational hatred for a lot of them. For now, it's just a minority of terrible voters who thankfully haven't affected the result.

 

One thing about the Heisman. The most famous college players who didn't get it (Peyton Manning, Andrew Luck, Jim Brown, etc.) have tended to lose to winners who were also great players. This makes for debate, but not mass outrage.

 

OJ Simpson should have not lost Heisman to Gary Beban in '67 but at that time there was
a stigma attached to under classman winning.

 

Yeah, and the voters knew he'd get it the next year, which he did.

 

Which is a ridiculous reason not to vote for somebody.

 

One of many.

 

Plus they didn't want to vote for a murderer who breaks into apartments and beats up people for merchandise.....

 

He did that back in the 60s?

 

There shouldn't be any undue hand-wringing over the Heisman for the same reason Winston's recent legal troubles shouldn't carry any weight with balloters. The Heisman Trophy is just a college football award. It's not some humanitarian honor.

(On a side tangent, inclusion in the Baseball Hall of Fame is not a humanitarian honor, either. Just in case some of THOSE balloters are floating around here.)

 

Agree. It's really not a huge deal. I do admit that while I believe it's not a big deal, I'm still riveted by the entire thing. Mostly annoyed. But riveted, too. The Heisman ceremony used to be appointment television up until a few years ago. Now, you basically know who's going to win before it's announced.

 

Totally different. It's not naked moral judgment raining down upon the baseball players. Their misbehavior affected the GAME on the field.