Don’t assume that the Heisman is a fair and just selection process. Voters (to include media and past winners) are biased and many don’t care about fairness, but just want their man to win. Others don’t take the time to study the players. Billy Sims likes to showcase his drunken ignorance with his Boomer Sooner crap at every ceremony. Does anybody think that clown is not biased?
The OU midget won in part because they promoted and sent out propaganda to beat out the Bama kid. Does anyone remember what happened to Peyton? There is a graveyard of failed attempts at picking the right winner. I don’t think Benson was even invited to the party. Shameful! White at OU was questionable.
Longhorn fans need to understand the history of OU football. Having lived up there for a couple of years I got a bg taste of it. OU football was to be the source of state pride after the depression, the Dust Bowl (The Grapes of Wrath. Mention John Steinbeck and the old timers will give you a hard look and mutter a profanity.) and WWII. Then there is the chip on the shoulder of many of them over anything the state of Texas. In the 1940’s their legislature designated OU football as the shrine to worship to create state pride. Hundreds of ex-WWII soldiers were brought in for tryouts and Bud’s dynasty was built.
I know a lot of good people from OK with solid values. But every one of them have one thing in common, they worship at the Sooner Shrine and foul play and coaches of question character will be excused as long as they contribute to the glory of the Shrine. OU football is their identity, is supported by all, and sold hard at all levels of the school.
Texas fans are serious about their football but the state of Texas and the school administration does not see it’s worth and identity dependent on a football team. They appear to be reluctant to show too much emphasis on football vs other areas of the school, to include academics. A little too much political correctness maybe for us fans, but in all honesty probably the right thing to do. And it is and always will be hard to take when Okies rub our nose in it for their success in football and use that to promote what they think is their superiority over the sate of Texas. Small minds at play. But at play never the less.
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