College football was boring this year. And the rematch of a National Championship isn’t going to make it any better.
So with the season basically being over, it was nice to see a change of SEC pace with Robert Griffin III winning the Heisman. Not sure I was surprised, but it was exciting to see someone from Baylor get the award. And I think what he said in his speech was perfect.
“This is unbelievably believable.”
The unbelievable part is the fact that someone from the usual lowly Baylor is winning the Heisman. I understand they are in the Big 12, but they are comparatively the Vanderbilt of the SEC. No one really expects them to do anything. In fact, most people forget they even exist.
Not since Ty Detmer won the award at BYU in 1990, has a player from a non-powerhouse school taken home the most prestigious individual trophy in sports. The list consists of schools such as Oklahoma, USC, Florida…not Baylor.
But what makes it believable, isn’t the “hard work” on the field that he describes. It’s the way RGIII was almost able to manipulate the media and obviously Heisman voters to thinking he deserved the trophy. And I’m not saying he doesn’t deserve it, but the moment he made the comment after the Baylor-Texas game saying he thought Baylor just won their first Heisman, I knew he was going to win.
It was just too fitting for it not to happen.
Regardless, RGIII has changed the culture in and around Baylor University. The Heisman does not necessarily mean you will be successful in the NFL, but the unbelievable achievements that he has put together this year will more than set his place in Baylor history.
Believe that.
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What’s also unbelievably believable is that 20% of the Heisman ballots were cast BEFORE the last weekend of the season. So before Baylor-Texas and before LSU-Georgia. So two Heisman finalists who played remarkable games that weekend had those performances NOT factor into the voting on 20% of the ballots. Most of these ballots were from the West, where A. Luck had already finished his season. Also, most of these ballots didn’t have RG3 in the top 3, and some had him totally omitted in an attempt to skew the results toward their West Coast guy (who ironically is from Houston, TX).
That is why the race was closer than it should have been. As Heisman Winner Desmond Howard said on Saturday morning, “Anyone who turned in their ballot before the final games were played shouldn’t be allowed to vote on something as important as the Heisman Trophy.”
RG3 won the South region, where all those SEC voters sit, which tells you how truly remarkable is accomplishments are. And the dude’s already graduated from Baylor, completes his Masters degree next year, and has been accepted to Law School.
People new to quit comparing him to Cam Newton. He looks like he’d break an arm in a stiff breeze
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