Heisman Selection Committee, Voters Getting Lazier and Lazier

Heisman Selection Committee, Voters Getting Lazier and Lazier

Personally, I think its offensive that the Heisman trophy winner is always given to an offensive player, typically a quarterback. Often times the Heisman winner isn't really even one of the top three quarterbacks at the collegiate level. I am not saying that the Heisman should go to whatever player is most NFL ready, but I think its a crock that the quarterback for the best college team for a particular season, routinely wins the Heisman Trophy. Gino Torretta winning  in 1992 and Danny Wuerffel winning in 1996 seem to fit the bill here.
Torretta defeating Marshall Faulk for the Heisman in '92 is certainly one of the bigger travesties in Heisman history. Torretta was in a great system, and wasn't a great player. First of all, he is playing for one of the better programs, and had three star wide receivers (Kevin Williams, Lamar Thomas, Horace Copeland) to throw to and they were all drafted ahead of him in the NFL. Since Torretta was a senior, and Faulk a sophomore, many voters voted for Torretta, figuring Faulk would win the Heisman the following year. Ignorance is bliss. Wuerffel also had three great wide receivers (Ike Hilliard, Jacquez Green, Reidel Anthony) who would play in the NFL, so his winning the Heisman was the product of being in a great system at the time, not being a great player.

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Perry's Perspective NFL Needs to Extend Trade Deadline

Perry's Perspective
NFL Needs to Extend Trade Deadline

There has always been one thing that annoys me when I think about the NFL trade deadline. This is that the trade deadline occurs far too early in the season, and this is often the reason why there are not more trades made in the NFL. The NFL is the only professional league that has their trade deadline before the halfway point of the regular season. This hardly makes any sense to me. Every other major professional sport in North America has their trade deadline at least 60 or 70 percent into their regular season. The NBA trade deadline takes place a little over 50 games into their 82 game schedule. Major League Baseball has their trade deadline a little over 100 games into their 162 games slate. Even NHL commish Gary Bettman has his league's trade deadline about 60 games into their 82 game regular season.


This year's trade deadline occurred on Tuesday afternoon, with once again hardly a trade to be had.  I dont blame many teams for not pulling the trigger on a trade at this point of the season, unless you are 0-6, 1-5, 5-1 or 6-0.  In my eyes, the NFL is always the king of sports, in that any team can go from 4-12 one year, to 12-4 the next. But its often tough to find out what deficiencies you have, as a result of either poor play by current personnel or because of unexpected injuries this early in the season. Maybe if commisioner Roger Goodell extended the trade deadline to after week ... [More]

Baseball Needs More Instant Replay

After seeing left-field umpire Phil Cuzzi call a ball that was a half a foot fair at a critical juncture of the ALDS game between the Twins and Yankees I can see why Twins manager Ron Gardenhire asked the media "We had six umpires out there. I think, right, six? Six umpires."  The reason Gardenhire stressed six, is that during the regular season, there are four umpires instead of six. But increasing the amount of humans from four to six, isn't going to solve missed calls like this, because of the "human" element just mentioned.

I know I have chimed in on this topic before, clamoring for baseball to be more extensive as to what exactly what is subject to instant replay, but I feel strongly about this and want to see baseball address this issue. I mean these guys play 162 fricken games a year, and then some guy totally messes up a call in the 11th inning of a playoff game. If this was an NFL game, the call on the field would have been amended and justice would have been served.

I have a suggestion regarding instant replay: Give the manager one opportunity to challenge ANY, yes any call on the field. Baseball games in the 00's take an hour longer than they did in the 80's, so whats an extra couple minutes of action due to instant replay? At least we know you will never go away saying "I cant believe we lost because of that awful call".

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Flags getting excessive on excessive celebrations

I am watching the LSU/Georgia last week, and while it was a bit of a low scoring snoozefest for three quarters, things started to really get interesting in the final stanza. The teams traded touchdowns with Georgia scoring in the first minute of the quarter, and then LSU returning the favor 13 minutes later. So with a little more than a minute remaining in the game, Georgia records a 16 yard touchdown pass and as a natural reaction, the players celebrate their touchdown. Nothing over the top, just a group of guys clapping their hands and hugging each other, happier than normal considering there is is barely a minute remaining in the contest, and they just scored the go-ahead points (making the score 13-12). So what does one of the referees do, throw a flag on the Bulldogs and penalize them 15 yards for excessive celebration.  Just 15 seconds later, LSU miraculously breaks off a 33 yard touchdown run to now the lead the game 20-13. The LSU players are naturally going bonkers, jumping up and down, and their undefeated season and top five ranking are still intact. Guess what one of the referee does, throws his flag. Cmon. Give me a break.
I gotta think that a good majority of these officials played the game of american football themselves competitively for quite some time. Well I am sure if they were true competitors that they realize that flags shouldnt be thrown in situations like this. I can understand if during one of the two excessive celebration infractions again... [More]