Cam Newton wins Heisman
Five months ago the average college football fan hadn’t heard of Cam Newton, now after watching him have his way with every team, including the reigning BCS Champions it’s hard to see why he wouldn’t win the Heisman. Well somewhere between then and now, about the time people started to notice Auburn (what a coincidence) the young man came under allegations that he was going to take cash benefits to attend Mississippi State, well to be more clear his father was going to accept the cash to help his ailing churches. The story goes back before that though, it all started in Florida, when a younger Cam was basically given the choice leave or be expelled for burglary, and obstruction of justice. He then transferred to Blinn College where he led the team to a NJCAA Championship while throwing 22 TDs and rushing for another 16. He then transferred again to an Auburn school that wasn’t in the preseason top 25 and picked to go .500 in the conference.
It didn’t take long for Cam to continue his dominance from the year before, racking up 14 combined touchdowns in only the first four games. It also didn’t take long for the NCAA to come down on him, maybe it’s because of his history, or maybe it’s because they were still on a high from getting Reggie Bush, and figured if another high profile name was tarnished then no one would ever cheat. Well the NCAA needs to rethink that, instead of just pursuing big names if they suspended everybody who cheated it would work a lot better, a good player who takes benefits but never plays up to expectations needs to be looked at too. Just because they aren’t that good doesn’t mean that what they did wasn’t wrong too.
Even though Cam was so clearly innocence (it’s not his fault his dad was shopping him around), and even the NCAA realized this, many people said that he shouldn’t win it because he was investigated at all, and that the Heisman trust says “The Heisman Memorial Trophy annually recognizes the most outstanding college football player who’s performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity.” So even if he really is innocent, he stole a laptop. However we all know that the Heisman is really awarded to the best player without regards to integrity, so no matter what Cam supposedly did, he is still by far the best player in college football this year. Maybe if the distance between his stats and those of the next player weren’t that different then you could be justified in not voting for him, but it wasn’t even close.
Luckily it seems as if mostly everyone agreed with me, as Cam won by over 1,000 points, and instead of saying how this whole year was his dad’s fault he thanked him, and said it wouldn’t be possible without him. (Seems like he does have integrity after all doesn’t it) So Cam Newton won the Heisman by about as much as he won his other conquests this year, let’s hope he gets to keep it.
It didn’t take long for Cam to continue his dominance from the year before, racking up 14 combined touchdowns in only the first four games. It also didn’t take long for the NCAA to come down on him, maybe it’s because of his history, or maybe it’s because they were still on a high from getting Reggie Bush, and figured if another high profile name was tarnished then no one would ever cheat. Well the NCAA needs to rethink that, instead of just pursuing big names if they suspended everybody who cheated it would work a lot better, a good player who takes benefits but never plays up to expectations needs to be looked at too. Just because they aren’t that good doesn’t mean that what they did wasn’t wrong too.
Even though Cam was so clearly innocence (it’s not his fault his dad was shopping him around), and even the NCAA realized this, many people said that he shouldn’t win it because he was investigated at all, and that the Heisman trust says “The Heisman Memorial Trophy annually recognizes the most outstanding college football player who’s performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity.” So even if he really is innocent, he stole a laptop. However we all know that the Heisman is really awarded to the best player without regards to integrity, so no matter what Cam supposedly did, he is still by far the best player in college football this year. Maybe if the distance between his stats and those of the next player weren’t that different then you could be justified in not voting for him, but it wasn’t even close.
Luckily it seems as if mostly everyone agreed with me, as Cam won by over 1,000 points, and instead of saying how this whole year was his dad’s fault he thanked him, and said it wouldn’t be possible without him. (Seems like he does have integrity after all doesn’t it) So Cam Newton won the Heisman by about as much as he won his other conquests this year, let’s hope he gets to keep it.
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