SI ranks last 20 Heisman winners

Charles Woodson shouldn't have won the Heisman, the only reason he won it is because Michigan were total media darlings that year and all the sportswriters were just dying to see a Michigan national title and everything else good that could possibly happen to Michigan.

 
The problem is that a lot of people look at success post-Heisman (i.e., NFL) to determine if the player was any good. Personally, I think the Heisman is clearly for the best college football player that year, and not the best NFL prospect. A lot of people disagree with me, which is why Tommie Frazier lost to Eddie George.

 
That list is nucking futs. Danny Wuerfel looked like a highschool baller against are defense.dayne was a stud. Barry is a freakin hall of famer, but that list is mostly b.s. BTW I must have been under a rock in '94' I had no idea that the Puffs had a Hiesman winner. :WTH

 
huskeraddict said:
General Blackshirt said:
I still dont see why everyone thought Crouch wasn't that good of a Heisman winner, or even didn't deserve it at all.....

he made un-be-freakin-leavable plays against Mizzou, and OU, and without him, Nebraska would have been about 2-10 that year at best........
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Because these idiots base everything off what they did AFTER college not DURING college <_< . I don't think we'd been 2-10 without Crouch but we wouldn't have been in the position we were in that year.
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exactly. They only look at what he did(n't do) after he won the Heisman. If they want to take a post-mortem look, then they should look at the 2002 Huskers, not the 2002 St. Louis Rams. the disaster that was 2002 would have happened in, at least, 2001 (Newk may have been able to save 2000, to an extent) w/out Crouch.

not to mention, he didn't athletically fail in the NFL. he quit after he was playing positions in the NFL that he didn't play during his Heisman campaign.

These idiots usually say Grossman deserved it and not Crouch... Grossman, now, is a borderline starter (and only b/c the Bears have a piss poor QB stable). now, certainly that's better than what Crouch has done but at least Grossman is playing the same position! where would he be if they had tried to switch him to WR or S?

I'm sick of this *how did they do in the NFL* gauge for Heisman winners, if Crouch had just had just stuck it out, and even became a half-decent WR for a couple years, he'd be in the top 10 on that list. That has NOTHING to do with his college career or the athleticism that won him the trophy.

This year, Troy Smith was anything but a clear cut winner. but in a couple years, if he does well in the NFL, he'll be declared one of the greatest Heismans from the last 20 years. If he fails, he'll be in the bottom 5. though even at this rate, if Dreamy Quinn has a decent NFL training camp they'll declare Smith an undeserving winner.

Crouch was much better than no. 2, Joey Harrington.
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this is so stupid. really. would they have even thought of Harrington if he were still struggling with Detroit?

why even vote on a Heisman if we're going to use current NFL highlights and ignore college accomplishments to re-evaluate the winners anyway?!

why not just name the 2002 winner this year- by looking at NFL stats... and then that race should be revoted again in 2008.

When should Terrell Owens and LT expect their Heismans to be shipped?

 
So true above. I think drew Brees deseves one now. We can call the new award "the ghost of Hiesman's past." it will look just like the old hiesman, but above the name plate it will read "Shoulda coulda woulda."

 
I think Ricky Williams just turned his trophy into a Bong.

"Say man you got a joint?"

That list is stupid. Charles Woodson was a joke of a winner. Peyton Manning should have won the darn thing. Tim Brown won it but had a better year the year before. Didn't Ron Dayne break Ricky Williams all time rushing record? Yet he is 10 spots below him. I do agree with Sanders though.

 
mbhusker13 said:
That list is nucking futs. Danny Wuerfel looked like a highschool baller against are defense.dayne was a stud. Barry is a freakin hall of famer, but that list is mostly b.s. BTW I must have been under a rock in '94' I had no idea that the Puffs had a Hiesman winner. :WTH
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Salaam was at that time one of only 3-4 players in college football history to rush for over 2000 yards in a season (Rozier, Marcus Allen, Barry Sanders). At the time that was sort of the acid test for the Heisman. If a player ran for over 2000 yards it was an automatic Heisman. However, when Troy Davis did it twice in a row at ISU it didn't seem to matter because his team sucked. Since then Ricky Williams, LaDanian Tomlinson, and Larry Johnson have all rushed for over 2000 yards in a season, but of that group only Williams won the Heisman. It seems that a 2000 yards season no longer has the luster that it once had.

By the way, when Rozier won the Heisman in `83, he sat out much of the second half of most of the games. In fact, his per rush yards is still an NCAA record I think.

 
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