Heismanpundit

Herschel Walker, who won the 1980 Heisman Trophy for Georgia, recently admitted to a radio show that Clemson was actually his first choice.
“My parents really wanted me to go to Georgia,” Walker told the reporter. I told them, ‘I’m not going to Georgia. I’m not going to Georgia.’ So I ended up flipping a coin [...]

I generally refer to the Heisman as ‘the most prestigious award in sports’, but here is one man’s ranking of the sports trophies he covets most.
The Heisman comes in second:
The most imitated pose in sports. At 13.5 inches high and weighing 25 pounds, the famous bronze football player holding the ball in his left hand [...]

Okay, it’s July, but the Heisman race has already begun. Much of what happens in the preseason shapes how voters will look at the candidates come December.
At Heismanpundit, we’ve tended to focus on which players have the best chance to actually win rather than trying to discern how the top 10 will end up. [...]

Will be back then with some fresh commentary….

Is being a good coach really just about wins and losses? That’s what BON thinks. Yet they nod and cluck approvingly when CFN ranks Mack Brown as only the No. 8 coach in the country even though–I believe–no head man has more wins during the last 10 years (side note: I’m a [...]

With all the hype over Notre Dame quarterback commit Jimmy Clausen, there’s precious little attention being given to some of the other top high school signal callers out there.
I recently had a chance to look at tape of some of them and, let me tell you, Clausen wasn’t the one that impressed me the most.
No, [...]

A recent post by the Wizard of Odds got me thinking about which programs around the country are doing the best–at underachieving, that is.
There are some schools that just can’t seem to get things going despite having natural recruiting bases, easy admissions standards, a decent football tradition, or fantastic locations.
Here’s a few that I think [...]

Xavier Carter has made it official and will give up his eligibility at LSU and turn pro in track.
This is something I’ve expected for a while now and it was all everyone was talking about at the NCAA Track and Field Championships in Sacramento a couple weekends ago.
You can’t argue with the move. Even [...]

–Lot of irony these days coming from the folks at Burnt Orange Nation.
Just below an entry deriding my very mild criticism of Mack Brown you can find a rundown of previous Texas seasons that illustrate just what I was writing about: Underachievement, not being ready for big games, confused personnel decisions (Applewhite v. Simms), [...]

Good story in the Louisville Courier Journal about how the University of Louisville is beginning its Heisman push for quarterback Brian Brohm and Michael Bush.
On July 1, the school will launch a web site promoting the pair called Derbycityduo.com.
(Louisville SID Rocco) Gasparro stressed that U of L will handle things equally for both players. In [...]