If Tim Tebow, Colt McCoy or Sam Bradford accomplished the exact same things that they accomplished at UF, UT and OU at another school not part of the "elite 8", say at Army or Baylor or East Carolina or Texas Tech or Wake Forest or Oregon State, would he still be able to win the award? When the answer to that question is so sadly obvious, how can the award be taken seriously?
It's a shame what college football has been reduced to. College football has plainly become just as corporate and as money driven as the NFL, which is fine; business is business. Just don't make it so obvious.
I'm too young to know what it was like to watch BYU or Army or TCU win a national championship, but it's a shame those things are impossible now. It's also a shame it's gotten to the point where even the players on such teams are disqualified from contention for the Heisman Trophy.
This would all be OK with me and many others like me if the Heisman Trophy were presented, treated, and revered for what it really is, or at the very least become.
The Heisman Committee shouldn't insult fans by calling theirs an award for the nation's most outstanding football player when it clearly is not. They should call it what it really is, or rather, what it's become: "The award given to the most outstanding white quarterback or black running back playing in a pro-style offense or one very similar on one of eight or so teams that have previous Heisman winners and national championships under a white head coach who believes in playing football the way we believe it should be played "
At least Harrell should have the last laugh however, as he and Bradford are the only two out of the four who actually will get to play QB when they leave college.
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