Darqueze Dennard wins the Jim Thorpe Award. WOOT!
Darqueze Dennard wins the Jim Thorpe Award. WOOT!
You can quantify it pretty easily in a number of ways. The easiest is to just look at who each team played and asked if the sum of those contests constitute a tough schedule. Looking at Lynch's schedule I can say quite clearly and accurately, No, that was not a tough schedule. Likewise, I can look at Mariotta's schedule and say, Yes, that was a difficult schedule.
Granted, there is some HUGE wiggle room in there, as you pointed out. But some things are just obvious. Lynch's schedule is one of them. Also, the point about number of plays over the season is very relevant.
Regardless of all the above, and not dismissing my obvious bias for Mariotta, the Heisman list this year is embarrassingly bad and completely biased towards the east coast.
The Winston thing won't be going away. Victim's lawyer is basically showing proof the state hid evidence.
Seems to be a falsified medical report, according to the attorney: http://espn.go.com/college-football/...jameis-winston
Well Mack Brown didn't step down and Saban signed an extension. Looks like Bama fans are safe for now.
Last thing I'll say is, it's also not as simple as saying school x which Oregon played is better than school x that NIU played. You also have to factor in that Oregon is a much better team than NIU is, so Mariotta's offensive line, WRs, and RBs are much better. So while say Washington State might be a better team on paper say than Buffalo from the MAC, the gap in talent between Oregon and Washington St. could easily be larger than the gap in talent between NIU and Buffalo, in which case it really doesn't matter that technically NIU's schedule is easier, because in this situation Mariotta is in a better position to succeed than Lynch.
There's so many factors to consider and it doesn't really matter because I don't think Winston was ever losing this, charge or no charge.
I cant believe 115 people left him off their ballots. They need to be fired.
Rumored targets for Texas are Mike Gundy, Jimbo Fisher, and Gus Malzahn.
Gundy won't get the job. Texas will go for a big name.
Other names rumored were Gary Kubiak and Dabo Swinney.
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If they hire Kubiak, I'll die laughing. The guy couldn't bring the very talented, if injury riddled Texans team to .500 this year at least. If they hire Kubiak, lots of fans will go rabid.
VanCleef wants you! Join the Defias Brotherhood and hang out on a yacht all day!
Gundy is mediocre at best.