The Heisman Trophy: Style Over Substance

• What? Are you dumb? How in the world is Buster Posey a loss and Stephen Strasburg a win? Strasburg got hurt his rookie season and was put on IR while Buster Posey only led his team to a World Series championship and managed one of the best pitching staffs in baseball. I mean, really?

• Last?..........please.

• The top player in your local high school may not even make a team in college. This is also true for the top player in college. You have to pick the best players in the NFL to see who is the Heisman equivalent to those in College. The same can't be said for high school, except for California.

• You gave an L to the best swing in Rangers history: Odibe McDowell. FAIL!

• @sports panties: richie. owned. you.

• Dont you guys get it, we are just the common man sports blog commenter, Richie is the big time radio/print guy who has created this persona/character that he has to live up to. The ticket says they are just regular guys talking sports and stuff, we know they are arrogant but they dont put that persona out on the air, but Richie plays the arrogant card and it works for him. Im sure in a private setting Richie is probably just as common as the rest of us, just like Im sure in person many people wouldnt say the things they do here about him

• @Sports Panties: You're right. I should take out my earring and get a common-sense hair cut and tone down my opinions. Yes, I need to be more mainstream. I should go bland-ass traditional, cuz that's where it's at! Genius!! And I'll exist as a mean-spirited, ill-informed commenter on a sports blog who cries for attention via the oh-so-creative and clever wit of calling myself "Sports Panties" and labeling people who don't look and think exactly like me as "Douche Bags". Yep, sounds like a plan. Keep doing what you do, and I'll play follow the leader. Fun!

• I agree w most everyone in regards to the Heisman, it's not supposed to be a precursor for future success in the pros. It's awarded to college footballs best big game, big school performer. Randy Moss should've won, Vince Young should've won..if Colt had of had better oline play than freaking Plano east he would've won. It's a beauty pageant for college football, much like the BCS and especially like the old system of ranking teams. It's just another part of what makes it the best sport known to man (other than hunting wild pigs from a helicopter while high on mescal and squeezing your se�tas or in RW's case: the pilot's boob and a trigger at the same time).

• You've been running this Heisman bit into the ground since last week and it is by far the dumbest argument you have made and that is saying something. Heisman is the award for college football's most outstanding player. It has nothing to do with future NFL success. Honestly, your argument doesn't make much sense. Greggo schooled you on the air so now you think you have to take your dumb argument to the blog? Ridiculous. As far as your t.v. appearance....what the hell look are you throwing down. You are now the poster child for douche bags everywhere. Wow. The hoop earring? Really? What's with the hair? You do realize you're not 25 anymore right? Does P90X automatically mean you have to dress & act like a douche bag? More Greggo....

• Heisman. meh.

• Hey, Richie Whitt. I'm watching you on the tele right now and need to say something: It's 2010. Wear an ear ring in both ears or don't wear one at all. Only a Chris Chris would wear one. Enjoy your work otherwise.

• Look at what stands out here, especially with respect to the Heisman and Naismith in the past decade: Many of these guys come prepackaged from hype machines (aka well known schools). You can reel off the schools by name: Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, USC, UNC, Duke. What part of this is confusing? Big school + media hype (ESPN, I'm looking at you) = Trophy. Baseball benefits from a dearth of media scrutiny through the main part of the season; that being said, some players have distinct advantages (a fantastic pitcher can overcome a mediocre team...you don't see one star player on a mediocre team winning the Heisman).

• Last time I checked the Heisman was given out to the best college player yet you want to give them a W or L based on what they did as pros?? "Taking into account their careers as pros - that includes stats, all-star teams, longevity" You gave Bradford and Tebow a W and they have played 2 games in the pros. You must have given them a W based on their college careers yet according to you what they do in college doesnt count. Again flawed logic

• didnt meant to include Tebow as a W

• I think this is a pretty interesting little study, but I'm not sure if it's fair to compare college football to the NFL. In a college system a team can run the option and be a powerhouse program (for example, when Nebraska was an elite) and a player like Tommy Frazier or Eric Crouch can flourish. Is it fair to expect them to adapt to a pro system when their specialty (in this case, being an option QB) is basically extinct in the pros? It's the same reason so many respected college coaches (albeit Jimmy Johnson is an exception) like Steve Spurrier or Dennis Erickson or Nick Saban or Butch Davis or Bobby Petrino struggle once they try out the pros: It's a different philosophy altogether from the college game. If Gary Patterson left for the NFL would he be a great NFL coach? If things were equal, he would be expected to excel. I'm not sure that's a fair comparison. As for the individual lists, and I apologize if this seems nitpicky, but I would give Shane Battier a W (not elite but a stable above average vet and good defender for many seasons), as well as Buster Posey who is having a great rookie season with the Giants and posted similarly impressive stats in the minors before getting called up (and is highly regarded by scouts). It may be too early to tell with Tebow whether he's a W or L.

• I see the Heisman as a college MVP, and not tied to the pro game at all. I could understand your point if the players who earned the award had not put up stellar numbers at where they are, but to look to future success based on an award that is given based on past performance is a little much. We all know how much scheme and politics play into the Heisman, but that is part of the pageantry of the event. Just like most things the Heisman stands out because it was at the right place at the right time. The media keeps it where it is.

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