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K Mike Nugent (All American, Lou Groza Winner, National Champion)

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BuckeyeNation27 said:
what exactly has leinart done to merrit a heisman?
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Dude! Don't you watch ABC??? He was crosseyed when he was a kid!! Now he plays football for the bestest team ever! And he wears a "F*ck the BCS!" t-shirt with a clever Trojan head where the "U" should be to express his disdain for an injust system that won't let pretty teams play for the national title! He's the toast of Los Angeles, the most sport-savvy city ever! How do you NOT give him the Heisman??? He is such a human interest story, he should get two just to make up for last year!!!

EDIT: Forgot to add, he also looks like John Mayer, who writes the most touching and soul-searching songs ever! Give Leinert a Grammy too!
 
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A kicker will never, ever, be a serious candidate for the Heisman solely because they don't play often enough in the game. All the other usual candidates (QBs, RBs, WRs) factor in about half the plays of each game and are the most responsible for generating points. Even the other occasional positions (OL/DL/DB/LB/TE) play half the game. A kicker may get 10-15 plays max, and that's provided he's both the placekicker and punter, along with his offense being proficient enough to get him a bunch of FG and XP tries. Now, do kickers have a huge impact on the game? Damn right. But they just don't have the sustained involvement throughout games to merit Heisman consideration.
 
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Jeezopete said:
The media and fans alike are seeing the importance of a good kicker.
Nuge is getting a lot of national airtime for his exploits.
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I get the Toledo Blade at home and Nugent was on the front of the Sports section, big color picture (10 x 12"??) and a great article about him.

Heisman? nah, but he sure is the early lock for the Groza.

Go Bucks!
Just win, baby!!
 
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Buck87 said:
The Bucks would probably need to lose 1 game at most. Being in the BCS Championship Game would help tremendously.
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Isn't the Heisman decided before the conference playoff games? I think somewhere between THE GAME and the first conference game, because they don't want the playoffs (SEC, B12, whatever) deciding the Trophy winner. That would mean also though that the BCS Championship game wouldn't matter toward the Heisman.
 
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FCollinsBuckeye said:
Same reason the most dominant O-lineman in a generation can't win it. The position isn't 'sexy' enough, and doesn't make for good SportsCenter highlights. I'll be happy if anyone *but* Jason White wins it. He doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as Archie :biggrin:
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Normally, I would agree with this 100%. But this year, Nuge seems to be getting a ton of airtime as are all the flubs by other kickers.

Nuge with 2 POTW awards already, team captain. If he ends up breaking the all time OSU scoring record, is team MVP, goes through the rest of the year missing 0 or 1 more field goal, maintains the high touchback rate and OSU runs the table, maybe. If Bush gets hurt. Right now, I think Bush is the frontrunner.
 
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Stewart Mandel showing Nuge a little love

the word is spreading...

In Sunday's Weekend Review column, I mentioned how Ohio State kicker Mike Nugent may well be the most valuable player in the country. Never ones to miss an opportunity to be whipped into a frenzy, the Buckeyes fans took it as a cue:
I know this is going to sound insane, but please hear this out. What about a "Mike Nugent for Heisman" campaign? Without him, Ohio State is 1-2. No one is more valuable to his team than Nugent is to the Buckeyes.
--Branden, Tiffin, Ohio

Why not? It's no more of a stretch than some of the casting on Joey (these NBC nitwits really expect us to believe Drea de Matteo could be the mother of an 18-year-old? Or that an actor who everyone saw play a college student in Road Trip four years ago has regressed to age 18?)

You would think that sometime in the last half-century the Heisman fraternity would have opened its sacred doors to the other positions on the field besides quarterback and running back, but with the exception of Charles Woodson in 1997, that hasn't been the case. It was understandable back in the day, when there was only one game on television and voters depended on the accounts of stogie-smokers in top hats hacking away on typewriters for their only coverage of the sport. But today, when you can see nearly any game you want, then see the highlights, then read about it on the Internet, you would think that nearly any player at any position on any team would have a legitimate chance.

In that spirit, these would be my top 10 Heisman contenders so far, if you were to throw reality out the window and base it solely on the term "most outstanding player":

1. Antrel Rolle, CB, Miami
2. Reggie Bush, RB, USC
3. Derrick Johnson, LB, Texas
4. Kyle Orton, QB, Purdue
5. Mike Nugent, K, Ohio State
6. David Pollack, DE, Georgia
7. Alex Smith, QB, Utah
8. Vernand Morency, RB, Oklahoma State
9. Aaron Rodgers, QB, Cal
10. Adam "Pac Man" Jones, CB, West Virginia


Hey, that was kind of fun. Or at least it will be until my inbox fills up with 237 "How in the world could you leave off (fill-in name here)?" e-mails. As a preemptive strike, let me just remind potentially infuriated readers that just because someone did not make one writer's top-10 list in the middle of September, it does not necessarily preclude him from winning the actual award.
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