the falsity of the heisman

          In the spirit of full disclosure if I had heisman vote which I do not, Suh would be my choice. As I sit here on the morning of the ceremony I beleive Suh will finish second or third. I beleive Mark Ingram will finish first. Many of the heisman polling sites seem to speculate that as well.                                                                                                                                  E.S.P.N. like the rest of america has turned into a schitzofrenic blabber machine. One day Lou Holtz says he'd vote for mccoy, the next day ingram. Herbtreit touts suh one day ,ingram the next. The same goes for mark may, mel kiper and the rest of there parasidic ilk. The danger with this is, is that it leads to hollow statements that wield to much influence on eventual outcomes.  In reality anybody watching bama vs. florida would clearly see that bama's defense not ingram was the story. The talking heads conveinatly used that game as a launching pad to hype Ingram. Keep in mind these are the same folks who told everybody he had no shot two weeks ago after the auburn game.

             I am going to spend the next few minutes picking on Ingram  because:

• A. I think he will win        
• B. I dont think he should win
• C. I think Suh should win
• D. Agree Gerhart should be a finalist
• E. Agree Mccoy should be a finalist, though not top three.
• F. won't waste time on Tebow as he is just along for the ride, although he has no business here.

           You could argue Ingram is not the best back in his own conference, and although the s.e.c. is the toughest league the touble comes when you take a national view of Ingram. Ingram finished with 15 rushing td's.  That is a very good mark. Gerhart finished with 26. Gerhart also finished 2nd nationally in rushing yard per game, Ingram finished 12th. That is just comparing two heisman finalist. Take a look at some other backs who are arguably every bit the runner Ingram is. Dion Lewis-Pitt  16 rushing td's, 3rd nationaly in rypg.  Ryan Williams-Virginia Tech  19 rushing td's, 5th nationally in rypg. Jacquiz Rodgers-Oregon State 20 rushing td's, 17th nationally in rypg. Take a quick at look all purpose runners,  Ingram finished 31st. That is behind prominent names such as mardy gilyard (2nd), c.j. spiller (4th), the rodgers brothers at oregon state (5th) and (18th) respectively, Gerhart (19th), and Dion Lewis (22nd).

            A final measurment i love is a stat called points resonsible for (prf). This stat is dominated by qb's. Who is the first rb on this you may ask? That would be Gerhart (21st) at 13.83. The next rb on this list would be j. rodgers (45th) at 11.00. ten other are on this and ingram is not one of them.

            The purpose of this is not to say ingram is not a good back, he is. The purpose is to prove he is not the best back in the country, he's not. He will most likely win the heisman in roughly 9 hours and there will be no justification. Fuck it, just another blow to the heismans credibility.