AP screwed up the first time by passing up playing with VY and getting himself a national championship. If I were him I would be in the front office advocatiing for them to get VY in Minnesota. Christian Ponder? Are you kidding me? Between him, and Blaine Gabbert, Jake Locker, and Cam Newton, one of them might be successful and my guess is Ponder has the lowest chance if being that guy (which isn't saying much for the others either.)
Had it not been for a blown call @Oregon in ADs final year, he would have played for two MNCs. I dont know if he would have won it, but he would have been there.
Florida would still have gone to the MNC game had OU finished the regular season with 1 loss. Florida's SOS was rated considerably higher than theirs (average was 15.6 vs. 38.0), Auburn had a higher SOS than Texas (these were the two teams that presented the losses on Florida and OU's records), they had a decisive advantage in the road wins category, the human polls favored Florida over them from the beginning of the season on through, etc. There's no evidence whatsoever that suggests the Oregon loss cost OU a berth in the MNC game.
And don't count out Ponder. He was the FSU version of Colt - except he had a pretty bad team around him at FSU. A couple of injuries kept him from having Heismann type numbers for both his junior and senior seasons. When he was healthy, he showed good judgment and the ability to make all the throws. If he can stay healthy, he may end up as a top tier NFL QB after a few years of seasoning. I would love to see VY join the Vikings - he would have an immediate impact, and that would allow Ponder to learn without getting immediately thrown into the higher speed game of the pros. The Vikings would be set for years with those two QB's.
You're right, most Longhorns won't call him AD. Regardless of when and where he got the nickname, most of us won't call him by a name we heard chanted and thrown at us while he was tearing it up as a Sooner. Sorry, but I won't support nicknames I once hated...most don't either.
Isn't it odd how Vince Young and Adrian Peterson, arguably the two best offensive players that have played in the TX-OU game this decade, both went 1-2 in the RRS?
Watching the video I kept thinking "how come they aren't only showing his interceptions and fumbles from 2010?" and then I realized it was the NFL network and not ESPN. ESPN really dislikes Vince.
