BABAWAWA GETS IT WRONG, MOST COLLEGE AWARDS ARE LAME & EVER HEAR OF LARON COUNCIL?
During a commercial on CNN, I flipped over to "Barbara Walter's Most Fascinating People" & caught her 5-minute blurb on Brett Favre. I know she knows nothing about sports & her staff could probably care less, but at least take a stab at being factual O.K.? She mentioned after his rookie year with the Falcons, he was cut. In fact, Favre was traded to Green Bay for the 19th overall pick in the 1992 draft, not cut. She also said he now played for the Packers biggest rival, the Minnesota Vikings. The Green Bay Packers were established in 1919, the same year as their biggest rival, the Chicago Bears. I know I sound like Keith Olberman, taking everything literally, but I doubt Favre appreciated her notion he had been cut after his rookie season.
The process(I sound like Todd Haley) for nomination & the time frame for voting is for most college football awards is totally flawed. Voters are given a list of possible candidates for each of the college awards(Lombardi Trophy, Outland Trophy, Groza Award, Davey O'Brien Award etc, etc) in early September. Most require a vote to pare the list down to 15 finalists by early October. Then another vote narrows the field to three in mid-November. The final vote for the winner takes place around December 1st. The major flaw here is if you're not on the original ballot, you have zero chance to win anything regardless of how well you play & how much you have dominated your competition. Missouri's Danario Alexander was the nation's leading receiver. He played against tough competition like the 3 finalists, he outgained Jordan Shipley by 280 yards a couple of touchdowns. He caught 14 more passes for 150 more yards than Notre Dame's Golden Tate. I never saw this kid drop a single pass. I never saw this 6-5 220-pound marvel get caught from behind. He wasn't on the original ballot sent out in September, so he's not eligible to win. Seem fair to you? Alabama's Leigh Tiffen is the favorite to win the Lou Groza Award as college football's best placekicker. Tiffen was 29 of 33 on field goals and he missed 3 extra points. Missouri's grant Ressel was 24 of 25 on field goals & a perfect 38 for 38 on extra points. This is one year after Missouri's Jeff Wolfert graduated as the best percentage kicker in NCAA history, missing 10 field goals in 3 seasons & a perfect record on extra points, 185 for 185. Of course he wasn't ever nominated either. With the bowl bids Mizzou has gotten lately & the failure of their best players to even be nominated(the exception Chase Coffman, who won the Mackey award last year) after very deserving seasons. Houston's Case Keenum threw for over 5,400 yards this season with 43 touchdown passes with only 9 interceptions leading his team to a 10-3 record & 4 wins over bowl-bound teams. His competition for the Davey O'Brien Award is Tim Tebow & Colt McCoy. Anybody have any doubt both of these guys played with better talent than Keenum? McCoy threw for 1900 less than Keenum, 16 fewer touchdowns but 3 more interceptions. Tebow threw for over 3,000 fewer yards, 25 fewer touchdowns, but Tebow did run for 13 scores while Keenum had but 4 on the ground. Keenum became only the 2nd player in NCAA history to throw for over 5,000 yards twice. The other guy to do it, Graham Harrell, won this award last year, let's see if Keenum can squeak by the big names tonight.
Ray Rice issued a lame apology on his Twitter account for the things he said about Green Bay Monday night. Saying crap that gets shown on Sportscenter & printed in the new papers is way beyond a Twitter apology. The lame cliché "you can't tell a book by it's cover" rang pretty hollow.
Chase Coffman was put on injured reserve by the Cincinnati Bengals yesterday. Coffman, last years Mackey Award winner for the best tight end in college football, never got on the field in his rookie season. Bone spurs from the broken ankle he suffered on the last play of last year's Alamo Bowl have plagued Coffman all season. A surgery to clean out the deposits is planned.
Ever heard of LeRon Council? He's a running back for the Northwest Missouri State Bearcats & a good one. Council is a finalist for the Harlon Hill Award, given to the Division II player of the year. Council, 5-10 & 210, has run for 1,640 yards in his senior year with one game to go, the Division II Championship game, televised Saturday on ESPN at noon. This is the 5th consecutive season coach Mel Tjeerdsma has guided the Bearcats into the title game. Tjeerdsma(pronounced church-mah) has won Division II coach of the year 11 times in 16 seasons at Northwest Missouri. Council, I'm proud to say, is a graduate of Kansas City's Center High School & so am I. Council is on the map with pro scouts, catch some of the game Saturday if you can.
The process(I sound like Todd Haley) for nomination & the time frame for voting is for most college football awards is totally flawed. Voters are given a list of possible candidates for each of the college awards(Lombardi Trophy, Outland Trophy, Groza Award, Davey O'Brien Award etc, etc) in early September. Most require a vote to pare the list down to 15 finalists by early October. Then another vote narrows the field to three in mid-November. The final vote for the winner takes place around December 1st. The major flaw here is if you're not on the original ballot, you have zero chance to win anything regardless of how well you play & how much you have dominated your competition. Missouri's Danario Alexander was the nation's leading receiver. He played against tough competition like the 3 finalists, he outgained Jordan Shipley by 280 yards a couple of touchdowns. He caught 14 more passes for 150 more yards than Notre Dame's Golden Tate. I never saw this kid drop a single pass. I never saw this 6-5 220-pound marvel get caught from behind. He wasn't on the original ballot sent out in September, so he's not eligible to win. Seem fair to you? Alabama's Leigh Tiffen is the favorite to win the Lou Groza Award as college football's best placekicker. Tiffen was 29 of 33 on field goals and he missed 3 extra points. Missouri's grant Ressel was 24 of 25 on field goals & a perfect 38 for 38 on extra points. This is one year after Missouri's Jeff Wolfert graduated as the best percentage kicker in NCAA history, missing 10 field goals in 3 seasons & a perfect record on extra points, 185 for 185. Of course he wasn't ever nominated either. With the bowl bids Mizzou has gotten lately & the failure of their best players to even be nominated(the exception Chase Coffman, who won the Mackey award last year) after very deserving seasons. Houston's Case Keenum threw for over 5,400 yards this season with 43 touchdown passes with only 9 interceptions leading his team to a 10-3 record & 4 wins over bowl-bound teams. His competition for the Davey O'Brien Award is Tim Tebow & Colt McCoy. Anybody have any doubt both of these guys played with better talent than Keenum? McCoy threw for 1900 less than Keenum, 16 fewer touchdowns but 3 more interceptions. Tebow threw for over 3,000 fewer yards, 25 fewer touchdowns, but Tebow did run for 13 scores while Keenum had but 4 on the ground. Keenum became only the 2nd player in NCAA history to throw for over 5,000 yards twice. The other guy to do it, Graham Harrell, won this award last year, let's see if Keenum can squeak by the big names tonight.
Ray Rice issued a lame apology on his Twitter account for the things he said about Green Bay Monday night. Saying crap that gets shown on Sportscenter & printed in the new papers is way beyond a Twitter apology. The lame cliché "you can't tell a book by it's cover" rang pretty hollow.
Chase Coffman was put on injured reserve by the Cincinnati Bengals yesterday. Coffman, last years Mackey Award winner for the best tight end in college football, never got on the field in his rookie season. Bone spurs from the broken ankle he suffered on the last play of last year's Alamo Bowl have plagued Coffman all season. A surgery to clean out the deposits is planned.
Ever heard of LeRon Council? He's a running back for the Northwest Missouri State Bearcats & a good one. Council is a finalist for the Harlon Hill Award, given to the Division II player of the year. Council, 5-10 & 210, has run for 1,640 yards in his senior year with one game to go, the Division II Championship game, televised Saturday on ESPN at noon. This is the 5th consecutive season coach Mel Tjeerdsma has guided the Bearcats into the title game. Tjeerdsma(pronounced church-mah) has won Division II coach of the year 11 times in 16 seasons at Northwest Missouri. Council, I'm proud to say, is a graduate of Kansas City's Center High School & so am I. Council is on the map with pro scouts, catch some of the game Saturday if you can.
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