Dinsdale wrote:
So they should give the award based on what a player might do, rather than what he actually did?
Of course not, but basing what a player might do is predicated by what he's actually done. My point is simply that their future potential at the next level should be a consideration to voters.
Unless of course CFB fan doesn't mind having the player who received the most coveted and prestigious award CFB has to offer get drafted 23rd by the NFL and flame out spectacularly in the pro ranks.
Some people have a hard time wrapping their brain around the fact CFB and the NFL are two entirely different entities. No CFB diehard gives two shits what the Heisman winner does in the NFL (unless he was from your team).
So now you're separating levels of fandom? Gawd, I love seeing CFB honk trying to act as if one could exist in it's current state of affairs w/o the other.
I'm a passionate
football diehard fan for the CFB and NFL teams I follow, and I could scarcely separate my rooting interest in either team.
And to suggest that "no CFB diehard gives two shits what the Heisman winner does in the NFL" would mean that those of whom you refer are some seriously myopic dumbfucks.
Oh, and last I checked Dins, you were vociferously trying to defend Heisman winners and their accomplishments after college in the NFL forum. None too successfully, I might add. I think that whole episode is what lead to that slice of humble pie you were chewing on the other day.
If any supposed "fan" of a sport doesn't want or care to see their golden child do well at the next level, then they're just living in a vacuum and blowing smoke.
Of freaking
course CFB fan wants to see the Heisman winner do well on Sunday. Otherwise, you've cheapened and invalidated the award.
Although I recently heard some radio honk decrying the "popularity contest," and suggested that if they really wanted to give the award to the BEST player, the only people with votes should be NFL scouts, since it's their freaking job to know who the best players are from every school at every position. I don't agree, but it was an interesting point.
That's a great freaking idea, except that it would and could never happen. NFL teams and scouts would
never tip their hand like that to each other, much less give leverage to a players agent before the draft.
No, we're stuck with the current system where the BEST player in CFB is often overlooked by voters engaging in back room beauty contests.
