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FrankTheTank said:
Biggest Heisman snub since I began watching college football. I would say of all time, but that’d be ignorant. Shït was so criminal, should be able to be reversed still.
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Yeah, I was livid about that but it was so familiar. The strength of schedule idiots thought they knew something. Derrick Henry had a big game against LSU while Fournette was stuffed by Alabama, and suddenly Henry jumps to the top of the Heisman list over McCaffrey and remained there.

I remember one dolt analyst who insisted that Alabama was a 3 or 4 loss team minus Derrick Henry. Oh sure. Weaknesses galore.

That decision was world class Heisman stupidity but Robert Griffin over Andrew Luck was the all timer for me. I had watched Robert Griffin whine and complain for years at Baylor, dating to a game his freshman season against Connecticut. He was always a self centered jerk. He didn't even try to hide it. There were juvenile displays against Illinois in a bowl game and likewise against Oklahoma State when Baylor got trampled his final year. The Big 12 message boards were loaded with related threads. None of the fans who followed that conference closely could believe that the nation had been suckered by Robert Griffin. Once he got into the NFL he was merely being what he had been all along. I wrote a couple of long pre draft summaries of Griffin on the Dolphin site Finheaven, spotlighting his two flaws...that egotistical personality and also that he had no clue how to protect his spindly legs while scrambling. Likewise that issue had always been glaring at Baylor.

I've made plenty of personnel mistakes but the Robert Griffin situation stands out far above any other to me, in terms of how it should have been impossible for the scouts and the nation to miss what he truly was. This guy wasn't suddenly on the scene. He started at Baylor from his freshman years. The same flaws were always there. Luck may have been a disappointment as a pro but he was a solid classy guy at Stanford and excelled there for years. He had always been rated above Robert Griffin until the genius Heisman voters got into the act.

When I was young the Heisman was based on long term superiority and didn't change in a flash. But that was when the world was a more logical place, and there wasn't this Overreaction Monday desperation to absorb the most recent results or news as if they actually mean something in the big picture.
 
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