And his coach is not happy about the snub.
"If Graham is not invited to the Heisman, they ought to quit giving out the award," Leach said in a statement released by the school. "It is a shameless example of politics ruling over performance. The other guys are deserving, but he has earned a place alongside them."
The Heisman Award is presented and admired with great stature. Mostly by ESPN and the people who get to vote for it, but they have so much stature and other admirable qualities that it's kind of justified. However, there is always some sort of small school, etc., beef that surrounds the trip to New York for a few lucky young men.
But I agree wholeheartedly with Leach -- if Sam Bradford (also: not Chad), Colt McCoy and Tim Tebow are justifiably good enough to be worthy of a plane ticket to New York so two of them can find out whose NFL career is going to fail first, well, it seems safe to say that letting Harrell -- or Michael Crabtree as he pointed out -- tag along wouldn't really be that big a deal.
Or, alternately, they could just start making the award actually mean something by taking the votes away from people who don't watch enough football and removing ESPN's media "vote".
Mike Leach Thinks They Should 'Quit Giving' Heisman After Graham Harrell Gets Snubbed originally appeared on NCAA Football FanHouse on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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