Best Price: $49.95Heisman Trophy Vote for 2009
The Heisman Trophy candidates for 2009 according to ESPN are the following Student Athletes
Mark Ingram RB Alabama Sophomore
Jimmy Clausen QB Notre Dame Junior
Tim Tebow QB Florida Senior
Colt McCoy QB Texas Senior
Kellen Moore QB Boise State Sophomore
Case Keenum QB Houston Junior
C.J. Spiller RB Clemson Senior
Jacquizz Rodgers RB Oregon State Sophomore
Noel Devine RB West Virginia Junior
Dan LeFevour QB Central Michigan Senior
Jordan Shipley WR Texas Senior
Golden Tate WR Notre Dame Junior
Ndamukong Suh DT Nebraska Senior
Ryan Mathews RB Fresno State Junior
This years Heisman Hunt has many great players. We hear about Mark Ingram, Tim Tebow and Colt McCoy the most because they play for the top 3 teams in the country. But there are lots of great players from a lot of great Football programs. Jimmy Clausen from Notre Dame. He is playing well every week. He plays for one of the most storied programs in the country that has been on a down swing lately. He has helped to bring them back to prominence. Kellen Moore plays for Boise State who at the time of this writing was 7-0. He is the Nation’s top-rated passer and leads the country with 21 TD passes. And he’s thrown only two interceptions. Boise State’s schedule may work against him. Lets be honest Boise State is a very good team and Kellen Moore is a very good player but to compare them to teams like Florida and Alabama that play the competition they have to play week end and week out is not a very fair comparison. If Boise State wants to be thought of with these teams they should have started working years ago when this controversy first came up to get into a better conference or do what ever it took to create the competition on their schedule until they do this there really is not a case here. Case Keenum from Houston even though they probably play a little tougher schedule than Boise is going to end up having the same problem. C.J. Spiller, Jacquizze Rodgers, Noel Devine all play for great programs but they may be too far down in the pack at this late date to be able to make up for lost ground. And lets be honest maybe the best football player in the entire bunch is Ndamukong Suh from Nebraska but can a lineman really compete in the Heisman Trophy Hunt. Well he ought to be able too if our voters were as good as they think but because they are mostly journalist which have a lot less knowledge of what the game is about than most people think. It is highly unlikely the Suh will receive the justice he deserves. So in reality it is probably going to boil down to Tebow, Ingram and McCoy who are all very excellent candidates from very excellent programs. And they really do deserve some extra points for playing the type schedules that these teams play. I would not be ashamed of any of the three.
Herschel Walker: From High School To Heisman Winner Between the Hedges.
Any college football fan knows what those 3 words mean and what team and stadium it can be associated with. The University of Georgia football team plays in Athens, Georgia in Sanford Stadium. Sanford Stadium is surrounded by English privet hedges, blocking the field from the fans, hence the phrase between the hedges. The University of Georgia football program has a rich tradition of effective teams. Having said that, there is one season in particular that took the program from a regionally well-known program into a national identified program. The 1980 football season for the Georgia Bulldogs is among the greatest seasons that a college football program can have. The 1980 team won the national championship and dominated most teams on their schedule throughout the year culminating with a Sugar Bowl victory against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 17-10. On the other hand, this 1980 season, which included exceptional play from upperclassmen, for example Buck Belue and Lindsay Scott, is recognized for a freshman that would begin his college career with such impact that it catapulted him to a level of infamy that few following him have come close to attaining. The freshman that took the country by storm throughout the 1980 season was running back Herschel Walker. Walker, from the state of Georgia, came to the University of Georgia amongst significantly hoopla soon after coming off a season in which he won the national high school athlete of the year right after leading his high school team to their lone state championship in 1979. So to say the least, the expectations were pretty high for Walker coming into to his very first season at Georgia, on the other hand what he would accomplish was nicely beyond any of the high expectations that many had just before the season began. Walker being a highly touted freshman had a lot of eyes on him, on the other hand, it seemed as if Walker welcomed the pressure and basked under it. Throughout his 1st season he rushed for over 1,600 yards, averaging almost 150 yards a game which includes 15 touchdowns and was third within the Heisman voting, which was nearly unheard of for a freshman at that time. He also set the record for most rushing yards by a freshman by running for 283 yards against Vanderbilt University. With the success of Walker, he was a driving force behind the 1980 National Championship season for the Georgia Bulldogs . He was able to take pressure off the other players on the team due the teams focusing all their energies on stopping Walker, although no team was successful and Georgia would go undefeated in Walker’s initial season. To this day, all freshman running backs are compared to the statistics that Walker was able to put up. This not just consists of Georgia running backs, but running backs from all over the nation. Walker’s freshman season is deemed by several to be the best ever by a freshman and also the finest ever overall because of the ease by which Walker was able to dominate opponents with his speed and strength. Walker is synonymous with Georgia football and a lot of these days lengthy for the days of Walker dominating on the field. Georgia Bulldog Watch, Men’s Belt, St. Louis Cardinals Watch
