RGIII wins the Heisman!

In one of the best Heisman races in recent years, Robert Griffin III won the 77th Heisman trophy.  All 5 finalists were deserving of the award in their own way, but RGIII was in my mind the best choice.  Finally the voters voted for the MVP of college football.  Bama would have still had a top ranked defense without Richardson, LSU would have still have 4 of the best defensive backs without Mathieu.  Stanford would have had their power running game, good offensive line, and best group of TE's, and Wisconsin would have had Russell Wilson and a very good running game even without Ball.  Baylor might not have made a bowl game without RGII.  Just think how much this one player has meant to the program.  Before he arrived, Baylor had never been ranked to finish a year and averaged 1 conference win a year.  His coach persuaded him to follow him to Baylor by saying he will be a Heisman candidate by the the time he leaves the school.  Pretty good prophecy from the head coach. 

I have to admit, I have watched Baylor quite a bit over the past three years but I never knew much about their star QB.  He is a well spoken kid with two military parents that seems to have his act together.  As always, the Heisman speech is the best part of the overdrawn event. 

This leads me to the worst part of the situation.  I would imagine very little people have really watched Baylor and RGIII play.  Most probably just saw his absurb stat line scrolling on the bottom line of ESPN. The worst part of the story is most people still will never see him play a game since the BCS skipped Baylor for the Sugar Bowl, they are left for a terrible no-name bowl that nobody will care about. Even when Tebow won when Florida had 3 losses, they still played in the Capitol One bowl which still gets prime ratings. As much as I, a Michigan fan, would like to win the Sugar Bowl and playing Baylor would make that significantly harder, I would rather see both track star quarterbacks against each other. RGIII a world class hurdler vs Denard one of the nations fastest sprinters. Think of the ratings and the marketing ability of that game... Heisman winner vs one of next year's top candidates. If neither qb had turnovers in the game a Michigan v Baylor game could be the first to 50 and would make the Sugar Bowl as attractive and exciting as any other bowl matchup this year.

So as magical as the Heisman trophy presentation always is, the fans are left with what could have been.