The only reason I even TALK about this here is because I offer that the way things have slid the last few degrees from "once-highly-respected" to "over-wrought-media-show" for the Heisman is pretty well what these short-sighted fools have in store for the "National Championship" process if continued to be given free reign:
"Short Memory Hype Circus"
There is another, more immediate effect we will likely see, in the event, artificial, but a KIND of "entertainment", undoubtedly (I'D watch). Goes like this:
Tua is denied the Heisman "EVERYONE" had him "way out in front" for since practically the first week of the season (the folks who build 'em up are the same folks who VOTE 'em in or out!), support that (rightfully) only deepened and intensified throughout the ongoing season until the very last game, the SEC Championship Game no less, when his mounting "minor injuries" without rest or respite finally drove him off the field (and on an important side note, one could argue that his own stubborn and ruthless Coach, Nick Saban threw him to the wolves, then threw him away in order to maintain a certain image of HIMSELF...Just as he more or less threw away the talented, loyal young man Tua replaced a year earlier, again with seeming ZERO consideration of the men themselves, mentally/emotionally in Hurts' case, physical well-being in Tua's, in BOTH cases seemingly with nary a thought of either man's past loyalty and immense contribution OR potential FUTURES)...Thanks to Saban's selfish mishandling of Tua's mounting loss of peak skills, Tua finally HAD to be sat down in THE KEY GAME...SABAN "gets away with it" thanks to the near-forgotten Hurts' return in fine form, and now Tua pays the price: The "Short Term Memory" Guys who get to create, talk about, then VOTE on this "Artificial News Event"--a sort of "tradition gone awry in a throw-away world"--go directly from "Tua hands down" for MONTHS then turns immediately to "No 'Heisman Moment'..." and a lot of other fresh drivel presented as part of some hallowed process that now dismisses the kid who dazzled until he couldn't hide the damage that was clearly limiting his prodigious talent.
So: In handing the (by now, in my opinion, compromised-by-politics and crass ratings-grabbing) award to "the other guy" (and I am pretty damn sure that WILL happen now--you have only to LISTEN to the yapping fools on TV who are the very ones who VOTE on it), they light a fire under Tua and his offense--who go out and lay a big number on that peewee-quality Oklahoma/TeenyWeeny12 defense, Saban gets HIS way and the dumbasses get to WRITE/COVER it all any way they like.
My cut-to-the chase advice, as an admittedly indirect result:
BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT GIVING THESE FOOLS ANY SAY in future consideration of "playoff expansion" and/or the whole discussion of how a "NATIONAL CHAMPION" is to be determined at this level of major college football.
The clowns are trying to run the circus.
"Short Memory Hype Circus"
There is another, more immediate effect we will likely see, in the event, artificial, but a KIND of "entertainment", undoubtedly (I'D watch). Goes like this:
Tua is denied the Heisman "EVERYONE" had him "way out in front" for since practically the first week of the season (the folks who build 'em up are the same folks who VOTE 'em in or out!), support that (rightfully) only deepened and intensified throughout the ongoing season until the very last game, the SEC Championship Game no less, when his mounting "minor injuries" without rest or respite finally drove him off the field (and on an important side note, one could argue that his own stubborn and ruthless Coach, Nick Saban threw him to the wolves, then threw him away in order to maintain a certain image of HIMSELF...Just as he more or less threw away the talented, loyal young man Tua replaced a year earlier, again with seeming ZERO consideration of the men themselves, mentally/emotionally in Hurts' case, physical well-being in Tua's, in BOTH cases seemingly with nary a thought of either man's past loyalty and immense contribution OR potential FUTURES)...Thanks to Saban's selfish mishandling of Tua's mounting loss of peak skills, Tua finally HAD to be sat down in THE KEY GAME...SABAN "gets away with it" thanks to the near-forgotten Hurts' return in fine form, and now Tua pays the price: The "Short Term Memory" Guys who get to create, talk about, then VOTE on this "Artificial News Event"--a sort of "tradition gone awry in a throw-away world"--go directly from "Tua hands down" for MONTHS then turns immediately to "No 'Heisman Moment'..." and a lot of other fresh drivel presented as part of some hallowed process that now dismisses the kid who dazzled until he couldn't hide the damage that was clearly limiting his prodigious talent.
So: In handing the (by now, in my opinion, compromised-by-politics and crass ratings-grabbing) award to "the other guy" (and I am pretty damn sure that WILL happen now--you have only to LISTEN to the yapping fools on TV who are the very ones who VOTE on it), they light a fire under Tua and his offense--who go out and lay a big number on that peewee-quality Oklahoma/TeenyWeeny12 defense, Saban gets HIS way and the dumbasses get to WRITE/COVER it all any way they like.
My cut-to-the chase advice, as an admittedly indirect result:
BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT GIVING THESE FOOLS ANY SAY in future consideration of "playoff expansion" and/or the whole discussion of how a "NATIONAL CHAMPION" is to be determined at this level of major college football.
The clowns are trying to run the circus.