College Football Live 12/14/09

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College Football Live mentioned the University of Tennessee today as having the "dubious" honor of having the most program wins, 782 I think it was, without having a Heisman winner now that Alabama is off the list. Thank you College Football Live, I hope Bryce Brown has something to say about this.
 
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Unless Bryce pulls a Mark Ingram and wins the thing next year as a sophomore, looks as if we'll be celebrating win #800 without a Heisman winner.
 
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I love how most Tennessee fans I run into pretend that they don't care about the Heisman.

Face it, if Bryce Brown won it next year, we'd all be drooling over him like crazy.
 
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nickknx865 said:
I love how most Tennessee fans I run into pretend that they don't care about the Heisman.

Face it, if Bryce Brown won it next year, we'd all be drooling over him like crazy.
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We have to retool our offensive line before we can hope for Bryce to win anything.
 
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The "heisman" is great and all, Happy for Ingram(seems like a level headed dude). But Its more and more media BS than anything else. SUH was the best football player on that stage and should have got the nod, but of course "Sir Charles" and ESPN ruined the notion of a defensive player ever winning it again........ Tebow getting invited over Spiller was a laugh as well....
 
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Havent watched it since the 1997 Big HeisTman and could care less who wins in the future or has won it since then; It is a complete sham!
 
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nickknx865 said:
I love how most Tennessee fans I run into pretend that they don't care about the Heisman.

Face it, if Bryce Brown won it next year, we'd all be drooling over him like crazy.
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Sure I'd be happy for him (no drooling like crazy, though, I assure you). I am most interested in what our team does as a unit.
 
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Thought they stopped giving that out in '97. Or maybe it was that I stopped caring that year.
 
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We have gotten along just fine since 1891 without a Heisman winner. Personally, at this point, I would rather have all the success in the world for the next 118 years without one. It's pretty nice to be one of the most successful programs of all time without one.

It's a team sport.
 
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nickknx865 said:
I love how most Tennessee fans I run into pretend that they don't care about the Heisman.

Face it, if Bryce Brown won it next year, we'd all be drooling over him like crazy.
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I have never cared about it. I wasn't even watching in 97. It's worst award in sports. Manning losing it didn't change my opinion of the Heisman at all. Other than the terrible "championship" system, the breathless weekly blather about who will win the Heisman beauty contest is the worst thing about the sport.
 
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I think if we would of went undefeated this year Monterio Hardesty or Eric Berry would of easily been in the Heisman discussion.
 
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Man there have been some really great football players to come through Tennessee and to think none of them have this prestigious award.
 
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A 60% completion percentage, 3819 yards, and 37 TD in the SEC just arent heisman numbers i guess
 
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milligan_vol said:
College Football Live mentioned the University of Tennessee today as having the "dubious" honor of having the most program wins, 782 I think it was, without having a Heisman winner now that Alabama is off the list. Thank you College Football Live, I hope Bryce Brown has something to say about this.
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I fail to see why this is a "doubious" honor. It just shows that we don't have to have the "best" player to win our games. To me, that speaks volumes. Where would they be without their "winner"? Where would Florida have been without Tebow?

We win with the players that we have. Eleven on the field at a time. Our guys against yours. Lets see who has the heart, the grit, and the determination.

I got nothing to be ashamed of nor do the young men who wear (or have worn) the orange and white proudly.

Besides, the Heisman is a curse. The only decent picks in the last 20 years have been Eddie George and Desmond Howard. Charles Woodson has had a good career also, but I don't want to rile up anybody with that one. Most of the rest have been disappointments. Case is still out with Matt Leinart and the other most recent - although NO is doing well without Bush....
 
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Vercingetorix said:
I have never cared about it. I wasn't even watching in 97. It's worst award in sports. Manning losing it didn't change my opinion of the Heisman at all. Other than the terrible "championship" system, the breathless weekly blather about who will win the Heisman beauty contest is the worst thing about the sport.
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I can't agree.

The worst thing about college football is clearly the entire ACC.
 
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BirdRacer said:
We have gotten along just fine since 1891 without a Heisman winner. Personally, at this point, I would rather have all the success in the world for the next 118 years without one. It's pretty nice to be one of the most successful programs of all time without one.

It's a team sport.
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I completely agree with you. I just saw this on the show, thought it was an interesting bit of info, and thought I would share.......
 
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It's a joke just like the Nobel "Peace" Prize that went to a terrorist (Arafat), the worst president in history (Carter), a hoax and fraud (Gore) and a president who was in office for 2 weeks when nominated. Peyton lost the Heisman because of regional politics and Ingram won in spite of it. Is Ingram measurably better than Hardesty? Who knows, but that is the way the cookies...............................!!!!!!!
 
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allvol17 said:
I fail to see why this is a "doubious" honor. It just shows that we don't have to have the "best" player to win our games. To me, that speaks volumes. Where would they be without their "winner"? Where would Florida have been without Tebow?

We win with the players that we have. Eleven on the field at a time. Our guys against yours. Lets see who has the heart, the grit, and the determination.

I got nothing to be ashamed of nor do the young men who wear (or have worn) the orange and white proudly.

Besides, the Heisman is a curse. The only decent picks in the last 20 years have been Eddie George and Desmond Howard. Charles Woodson has had a good career also, but I don't want to rile up anybody with that one. Most of the rest have been disappointments. Case is still out with Matt Leinart and the other most recent - although NO is doing well without Bush....
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The guys on College Football Live called it "dubious", hence the quotation marks, not me. I agree that we and other programs have been fine without a Heisman winner, I was just posting what I thought was an interesting bit of info.
 
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