Brady Quinn recently received the Maxwell Award given to the nation's top collegiate football player. He beat out Heisman Trophy favorite Troy Smith for the award. First, here's the article.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2690330
How in the world did Brady Quinn beat out Troy Smith for this award? Troy Smith is by far the best collegiate player this year. I guess one good thing that came of this is that there is now some Heisman talk and speculation in what has seemed like a one man race all year, but there is no way Brady Quinn is the player of the year. Brady Quinn is quite possibly one of the, if not the THE most overrated player in college football.
Troy Smith did manage to take home some hardware winning the Davey O'Brien trophy for the nation's top quarterback which he more than deserved. However, if I had to give Brady Quinn a trophy over Troy Smith it certainly wouldn't be the best player award! Troy Smith is an excellent quarterback and all-around player who has matured greatly over his tenure as the leader of the Buckeyes. He can run it when he has to, scramble to find an open receiver and also drop straight back and hit his target. Brady and Smith have similar stats this season with Quinn throwing for more yards and two more touchdowns, however Quinn got sacked 16 more times.
I am not a huge Big Ten fan, but I am even a bigger hater of Notre Dame and Brady Quinn. With that being said I respect Troy Smith and his willingness to change his style of play from a scrambling quarterback (611 yards rushing and 11 TD's) last year to a very, very good collegiate quarterback by cutting down his rushing this year to 233 yards and 1 TD this year. It would be a shame not to see Troy Smith win the Heisman this year. Did I mention that Notre Dame has two losses on the year and Ohio State is undefeated?
Friday, December 08, 2006
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AMeeks, thank you very much for educating me on college football. I thought the Heisman was the most prestigious award in college football. But if that's the case, why the hell do we have the Maxwell award, an award for the best player in college football? As for Quinn, I don't like the guy either. But if he wins the Heisman...so be it. HOWEVER, if he does NOT win the Heisman, then that just proves that the Maxwell award can't be taken seriously.
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