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It's Time To Move The Heisman Trophy To After The College Football Playoffs, LINK!

CaptainSidneyReilly

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Dec 25, 2006
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Long overdue, the CFB Season no longer ends in November. The 12 Game Schedule with Bye Weeks, Conference Championships, Army-Navy Game, Bowl Games, and National Championship Playoffs going into second week of January.

It is simply ridiculous having early voting and not having the voting later in the New Year after all Games are over? The Heisman Trust owns the Trophy since 2004 after Downtown Athletic Club went Bankrupt and then bought out by Yale Club until 2003.

Additionally, need to set up Written Rules on Voting with equal distribution and eliminating regional bias. The critics are correct about the unwritten rules regarding player position and age, and old bias removed!

Moreover, no early voting until the complete season is over. For Goodness sake, with today's Technology of Emails, Tweets, and Cell Phones, no reason to have early voting that was used by US Mails in the old days. It should also be published publicly and voting distributed equally!

Finally, ESPN could also hold College Football Awards show the Saturday before the Super Bowl that would give out all Post-Season Awards and the NCAA and Conferences getting a piece of the Ratings and Revenues!

Of course Dummies allow to Vote like Ron Cook won't matter to them and perhaps there should be an IQ Test on Sports to make sure Sports Writers like Cook could qualify? He often admits how wrong he is on Sports everyday anyway. Just kidding and then maybe not when it comes to Ron Kook!!!


Article & Background:

CBS SPORTS DENNIS DODD LINK:
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...prove-its-best-to-delay-heisman-trophy-voting


Background On Heisman Wikipedia Link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisman_Trophy
 
Baseball gives out it's MVP based on the regular season. Football gives out it's MVP based on the regular season. The NBA does the same thing. The NHL too. College basketball does as well. In reality, is there any sports league that gives out it's player of the year (not that the Heisman is any sort of official award) based on voting done after the playoffs are completed rather than at the end of the regular season? None that I can think of.

Moving the award to after the playoffs are over almost guarantees that the winner will come from the champion, or at worst the runner up. Is it supposed to be an award for the best college football player (stop laughing, that's what it's supposed to be for) or is it an award for the best player on the team that wins the championship?
 
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