(OT) Heisman Trophy: Does Anyone Care Anymore?

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Posted By: hankron

The BCS/National Championship is goofy & hyped & commercial, but at least they are dealing with the top teams. One can argue and have different takes whether Auburn or Oklahoma or Cal or Texas should be #2 or 3 or 4, but they are all top notch teams that could actually win a national championship game. The BCS isn't sneaking Notre Dame or Army or Princeton in there.

The essential problem with the Heisman Trophy is that winner often isn't even one of the 20 or 30 (or 50?) best players in the nation. In other words, the proverbial Princeton or Army player can and often does win the thing, when it should be proverbial USC, Oklahoma or even California player. And when the 20th or 30th best player wins the award "Best Player in the Nation" for the third or fourth time you start to say "Que?"

Unlike baseball's Most Valuable Player, the Heisman Trophy is supposed to be given to the 'best player' in college football (that's what the damn thing says) ... As Dan Patrick so eloquently put it, "How about giving it to the best player in college football?"