Decade Heisman Trophy

I’ll look at it both ways, my top three Heisman winners of the decade, and the top three players of the decade, period. Here goes for me:

Heisman winners
(1) Tim Tebow
(2) Carson Palmer
(3) Matt Leinart

Top overall players
(1) Tim Tebow
(2) Vince Young
(3) Darren McFadden

Formers:
1.) Reggie Bush
2.) Tim Tebow
3.) Matt Leinart

Overall:
1.) Reggie Bush
2.) Vince Young
3.) Darren McFadden

1. Vince Young- He did it when it counted
2. Reggie Bush- Electric
3. Terrell Suggs- 44 sacks

1. Vince Young
2. Reggie Bush
3. Darren McFadden
I really wanted to include Adrian Peterson, but I just couldn’t rank him ahead of these three.
*I also wanted to include a defensive player (Rolando), but obviously, I couldn’t do that, either.

1. vince young. college player of the decade no doubt
2. tim " died cried for our sins wins" tebow
3. darren mcfadden (he helped houston nutt win 10 in a row including a win over the national champs that season)

i also find it absolutely not surprising at all to see that of the top 3 players of the decade in college football, only 1 of them got a heisman. the heisman is a joke and i’m preparing myself to see colt mccoy strutting off the stage with it tonight. which makes me wonder, will mccoy go out like jason white or like gino toretta? either way, it aint gonna be pretty.

1. Vince Young
2. Tim Tebow
3. was gonna go Larry Fitzgerald, but Sean Taylor won the H-2-H

Most of these guys can have legitimate cases made for them, but Reggie Bush? Are you serious?

Look, I know he was hyped as a once-in-a-generation player who would literally change the game and all of that stuff, and to that end he ended up winning the Heisman by the biggest margin ever. However, four years removed, I think we can all definitively say that Bush was over-hyped by an unbelievable margin.

First and foremost, what did he ever really do in college? His 2004 campaign is a good one, but the bulk of the production came when he racked up about 500 total yards of offense — almost 40% of his yearly total — against a 5-6 BYU team and a 5-7 UCLA team. And honestly it was much of the same story the following year in 2005… he racked up about 700 yards of total offense against Fresno State and UCLA.

But so what? Wow, the guy played on unbelievably talented teams against very weak competition — the Pac 10 was seriously in the dumpster at the time — and he ran circles around them. Big whoop. Hell, all of these other guys mentioned here ran circles around legitimate top-end competition, many of which with much less talent around them via their supporting cast, so color me unimpressed by Bush.

Besides, I think we can look at Bush’s career in the NFL and see how overrated he was all along. Hell, right now he’s just a third down back, really a cheap imitation of Kevin Faulk. He made a couple of big plays in his rookie season, and has basically been a cog-at-best for the past three years. Moreover, for the record, unless he is willing to take a massive pay cut next year, he’s going to be cut by the Saints. And all of that is to say nothing of the fact that he is at the center of an ongoing NCAA investigation that could possibly bring major sanctions to USC and possibly result in him getting stripped of his Heisman.

And, now I’m supposed to believe that’s one of the best players of the decade? No way. That’s the most over-hyped player of his generation who quickly got exposed.

2. Adrian Peterson
3. Percy Harvin