AP college football player of the year

Kaptain

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Well the AP (Anybody but Palehorse) award has followed the Heisnotawhiteman award by not awarding Toby Gerhart as the College Football Player of the Year. No surprise though. What else is expected of ASSociated Press?

I can now safely say that the Ndonkeykong Suh hype has reached epic porportions. He is the first defensive player to ever receive the award. Considering that before the Texas game and coincidentally, or not so coincidentally, after the Gerhart national TV Norte Dame splash, he was reguarded as a cheerful "also ran" in national awards talk.

What is/was the real reason for the sudden Suh worshipping? The one and only reason is the rise to national prominence of one Toby Gerhart. It was and is a desperate attempt to not admit that the most outstanding college football player is (gasp) a white tailback. We all know Gerhart's mind-blowing numbers and have seen his spectacular performances, but let's just take a look at Suh's numbers to see if I might have a point.

At defensive tackle in 13 games, Suh had 12 sacks and 83 tackles. Good numbers to be sure, but certainly not of epic porportions. Suh had one, count them, one multi-sack game and that was against Texas where he was generously granted 4 sacks by the score keeper. I challenge you to look at that film and tell me he had four solo sacks. I watched; he had 2 QB sacks maybe, one 1/2 or 1/3 sack, and one QB draw tackle for a small loss. Regardless, he still "averaged" less than a single sack per game during the season.

There are dominant defensive players every single year in college football. Every year! And several of them. The college football leader in sacks this year had 17 sacks and yet I don't know his name. Terrell Suggs (black) had 24 sacks in college in the recent past and never received a sniff of national award attention. Without looking, I'm pretty sure Jared Allen had more sacks in college than Suh and yet national media attention avoided him. What about the tackle leader? The interception leader? Never are they mentioned for national honors that have traditionally gone to offensive players.

We could list guys left and right who dominated defensively, and yet we year in and year out never really hear them mentioned as potential Heisman or AP Player of the Year winners. So why is this year different? Why has the media suddenly lionized a defensive player with good, but not great, stats and a "non-stop motor"? The same "non-stop motor" phrase that describes the playing style of Suh and about every single white defensive line-man in the last decade. Why the sudden adoration of Suh? A guy who possesses the same skills of several over-looked white defensive lineman. Why Suh?

One answer and one answer only: The rise of Toby Gerhart and the chronologically sudden need to find somebody or "anybody!" else to annoint as college football's best player. Just not a white tailback! Thanks for listening.

Donkey Kong Wins over PalehorseEdited by: Kaptain Poop
 

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KP great post and I agree 100%! The TPB needed to marginalize Toby and to do it is give Suh all the other accolades and awards in an effort to bury Toby's accomplishments this year. It appears to be a another page to the Caste system playbook.
 

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Outstanding post, KP.

Notice that legit tackling machines like Northwestern LB Tim McGarigle were never even mentioned...let alone considered for any award.

McGarigle had 150+ tackles 3 seasons in a row...and finished with around 550 total tackles for his career. I believe that is still the highest total in the history of NCAA football. Other whites in the top 5 are Justin Beriault (Ball State) and former Duke LB, Ryan Fowler. Again, I'm sure not a single media member thought Fowler or Beriault could "cut it" in the NFL....let alone get any awards for their record-setting seasons.

Suh's state are decent, but certainly nothing mind-boggling or record-setting for a DT. I'm sure he'll go #1 overall and look generic like every other non-white hype job NFL prospect.Edited by: Thrashen
 

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Complete BS! Toby and Suh did oddly finished ahead of the Heisman winner (token) in this vote too. I find it odd that a Heisman winning RB gets less votes than another RB for the Doak Walker award and now POTY. How often does that happened...
 
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JReb1 said:
Complete BS! Toby and Suh did oddly finished ahead of the Heisman winner (token) in this vote too. I find it odd that a Heisman winning RB gets less votes than another RB for the Doak Walker award and now POTY. How often does that happened...

As for getting less votes the Doak Walker award but winning the Heisman, NEVER until this year
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As much as it irritates the likes of CF posters who are, ultimately, spectators in all this, it must royally piss off Gerhart, to throw yourself into your sport with all you've got, knowing you're getting disrespected by a bunch of gay twats.

Are we allowed to say twat? Well that's what they are.

T*ats.

There. Better.
 

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Informative thread.

The ridiculously over-hyped Suh has a lot of work to do, if he wants to be better than White powerhouses like Brian Young and Travis Hall, the latter inexplicably selected in the 6th Round out of BYU. Weird...
 
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