Thread: the Heisman Criteria Should be Changed
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Old 12-14-2004, 03:42 AM
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One thing that has changed is that schools run big-time Heisman campaigns. Just like elections, there is too much coverage of the horse race, which leads to arbitrary criteria -- things like who had the best final game, or best season highlight or whatever. Stats comparison becomes a big deal also. There is very little historical comparsion, which I think is wrong. If player x is the best safety ever to play CFB, then that merits a safety winning the Heisman over a "pretty good" QB from a national title contender. I have a hard time thinking of either Palmer or Leinart (or White) as being among the greatest college QBs ever, never mind a guy like Ware or Weinke. I mean, come on.

One question voters should ask is, if you were a coach, who is the one guy you'd want to have on your team? For my $1.00, that guy would be Reggie Bush this year. It would have been Larry Fitzgerald before that, and probably I'd go with McGahee before that.
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