In this edition of Cardinal CounTree, Matt Vassar discusses why Christian McCaffrey is the underdog to Derrick Henry for the Heisman Trophy tomorrow night, and even despite having a better season than anybody else in college football. He covers the Heisman campaigns of both Christian McCaffrey and Derrick Henry, and completely demolishes any argument for why Derrick Henry should win the Heisman.
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If Toby couldn’t win, Christian can’t win. Toby’s case was even more compelling against a worse Alabama back.
By hanfrac on 12.11.15 4:20pm
Is "Because he's from Stanford"
not a compelling enough answer?
By Visionary_ensemble on 12.11.15 5:55pm
Because he's white is a better explanation
RG3 winning at a baylor program is the proof
By layman on 12.11.15 6:14pm
Because he's white?
Are you crazy? It’s probably because most people who don’t reside in the pacific time zone didn’t see him play until the Notre Dame game. That or because the "SEC is so tough"
By JayKidd13 on 12.14.15 7:33am
Toby coudn't win
Because he didn’t have enough yards (despite having 200 more than the winner), 28TDs Just didn’t impress (even though Oklahoma’s coach was impressed :"I think he’s a fabulous running back," Stoops said. "He did run through us at times.") and as we all know Alabama is far superior to Oklahoma (even though they haven’t beaten them in most CFB fan’s lifetimes at this point) so 17 TD’s were plenty for Ingram to win the prize that year. "Toby should have gone for more yards with all those touches" was the resounding complaint.
Now in 2015 the complaint is switched, not enough TD’s (even though Shaw is purposely using CMAC like Detroit used Sanders in order to lessen chance of injury).
It really doesn’t matter what Stanford does, they are not USC, their skill players are white, they aren’t even supposed to have skill players in most pundit’s eyes, and ESPN and the sports media will always move the goalpost around for a Stanford Player. Sure they’ll tout how great CMac actually was (after the votes have already been cast ). They may even call him the favorite for next year, always next year. Then they’ll wait for him to have an average game or two, move the goalpost once again, and write him off for good.
By Stanley F on 12.11.15 7:29pm
I’ll just add that after watching the presentation….The only shot Stanford will ever have at winning any Heisman will require:
a) indisputable and overwhelming dominance of position
b) Minority player
c) Hard luck story is a prerequisite
Plunkett was the only Stanford winner and he’ll be the last: Blind parents, dead parent, minority, raised in abject poverty, overcame health issue(thyroid), all boxes checked.
By Stanley F on 12.12.15 10:51pm