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[QUOTE="cmpepper23"]
Really? Are you a scout? If Tony Homo can start in the NFL so can McCoy...the most accurate QB in college football.
My vote is for McCoy. Yes, I'm biased. He isn't having the season he had last year, but the Longhorns are still undefeated, and he is a very big reason for that. He has those intangibles that the media loves to rave about Tebow having. Only difference is his face/name isn't thrown around as much. Colt is a top class guy on and off the field. If you believe all he does dink and dunk passes, then you don't watch Texas play...you only listen to what people tell you.
Gerhart is having a great season, but he plays for a 4 loss team. I don't know the statistics, but I don't believe a heisman winner has ever played for a 4 loss team. Also the last running RB to truly deserve the Heisman was Ricky Williams and Gerhart's stats aren't quite on that level. Dayne won in a down year, and VY should have won the year Reggie Bush did. Bush's stats weren't that great compared to previous RBs that have won. The proof is in the stats and the wins.
cmpepper23
The offense allows him to make one read and dump the ball off, he has tunnel vision. His deep ball accuracy is hit and miss, he cannot play under center, he has a weak arm and is thin and vulnerable to injury. Sounds like a 3rd stringer to me. Tony Romo is bigger, has a bigger arm and came out of a better offense to translate to the NFL.
BTW, Toby Gerharts Stats The dude has scored 26 touchdowns this year. And I wasn't aware that the Hiesman was a team award.
Colt McCoy is a few pounds shy of Romo and like most players that go to the NFL, he will gain the weight/muscle in order to play in the NFL. I have seen him on several plays go through more than one read and still make the play. He has the ability to keep plays alive with legs. Give him 2 years to adjust to playing under center although it seems more and more offenses in the NFL are using the spread. His arm isn't the strongest, but look where strong arms get you...Jay Cutler. He has a strong enough arm to play in the NFL and has the most important attribute and that is the ability to win and be accurate. I could see him coming into the league as a backup and like Romo, eventually becoming a starter by his 3rd or 4th season.
As for Gerhart, I know his stats...espn is just one click away, but the fact is the Heisman winner for the past 10 years at least has come from a top team and not one with 4 losses. Look it up. It's not a team award, but just like MVPs in the pros, the winner is going to come from a great team not an above average/good one. Look at Bush when he won. He won because he played for USC and the national media was obsessed with USC going as far to say they could beat the Arizona Cardinals. VY's stats were far beyond that of Bush.
He's 203 pounds I think. Romo is 225. And he doesn't have the thin frame of a college athlete like McCoy. And its harder than you think to simply learn to throw under center. McCoy has been playing in a wonky college system, and just won't unlearn his nasty quirks like tunnel vision. And ask Mark Sanchez and Chad Pennington how weak arms(McCoy's arm is right there with them) are helping them. And McCoy is not accurate. He plays in an offense that allows him to LOOK accurate. And besides, if you look at one of my old threads, I point out that mathimatically, Jordon Shipley accouts for almost 50 % of McCoys stats this season. HE is more elligle for the Hiesman, IMO.
As for the Hiesman, its a personal award. And Gerhart has had less help than anyone up for the award. Don't say Andrew Luck either. He looks like a future NFL player, but he has a long way to go.
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