Florida’s Tim Tebow leads the latest Scripps-Howard Heisman Trophy poll. I don’t know which is sillier; the Tebow part or the poll itself. A Heisman poll in November seems a little shaky. A Heisman poll in September is ridiculous. These guys have played two or three games, often against teams barely giving scholarships, and yet we’re starting to align the Heisman candidates.
Which is how you arrive at Tim Tebow in the lead. The Florida quarterback, I’m sure, is a fine ballplayer. But the new trend to bestow the Heisman on the quarterback of one of the elite teams is bogus. If Tebow was quarterbacking
Mississippi State, playing just as well as he is with Florida, he wouldn’t get a sniff of a vote in Scripps-Howard. Or in the real Heisman voting come December.
The real question is if premature surveys like Scripps-Howard are producing contenders like Tebow. You can see how it would happen; early September, you vote for a name you know, and suddenly that name gains momentum. So scrap it. Both the Scripps-Howard poll, and the Tim Tebow campaign.
September 27th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Isn’t that how Jason White won his? Being from a big school, feasting on the Big 12 patsies and getting exposed in bowl games and the nfl? my son asked me the other day if Bret Favre had a statue outside Southern Miss U. I said I didn’t know but he’s no Jason White.
September 29th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Not only Jason White, but Bradford this year as well, and a RS Freshman to boot.