If Colt beats Tebow in the Rose Bowl, they should retroactively award Texas the '08 national championship. Both teams finished with 1 loss and beat OU by 10 on a neutral field, but they never played each other. There is a score to settle on January 7.
Runs longer than 30 yards: Vince Young 80 - Oklahoma State 2005 65 - Nebraska 2003 64 - Baylor 2003 60 - Tulane 2003 60 - Michigan 2004 59 - Oklahoma 2003 51 - Rice 2005 47 - Baylor 2004 45 - Oklahoma State 2005 45 - Oklahoma State 2005 45 - USC 2005 42 - Oklahoma State 2004 36 - Missouri 2005 34 - Missouri 2005 33 - North Texas 2004 33 - Missouri 2005 32 - Ohio State 2005 Tim Tebow 55 - Florida International 2009 47 - Florida State 2009
Great marketing by HEB, must have given him an old $7 bunch of flowers to run onto field with and he scrawls HEB on his little eye patch for all to see. I don't recall, ever, some ***** running onto a FOOTBALL field with flowers.
I went and looked at all of Tebow's rushing TD's and he has 18 1-yard TD runs, 9 2-yard TD runs, and 6 3-yard TD runs. That means well over 1/2 of his TD runs were from 3 yards or less and almost 1/3 were 1 yard runs. As where most QB's would hand to a running back in these situations, Tebow calls his own #. This has allowed him to break several SEC records held by great running backs. It is also probably the reason he won a Heisman Trophy when he went 9-4 the year after his team had won a National Championship with a different starting quarterback. Tim Tebow has had a great career, but his stats are padded from rushing for 1-3 yards for TD's. He has also been on Florida teams with a lot of talent, but yet he is always given credit for "willing" his team to win in any close game. Tim Tebow is not the greatest player of all time and better yet, not even the best at his position for the past 2 years.
DING! DING! DING! We have a winner! Take away Tebow's easy TDs from 3 yards or less, and what do you have? A very average runner who throws well. In Vince you had one of the greatest runners of all time who also threw well enough to make his team one of the greatest ever.
I think Tebow is a great QB, a great athlete, and a very good winner. He didn't do great his sophomore season against the top in the SEC. In his junior season he finally broke out and won the big games. This year his team is obviously undefeated again. I think this SEC title game could be a signature game for his career. I think Dorsey was a guy who had one of the best talent pools surrounding him. He was a great winner but I have a hard time putting him up there at the top of the best QBs even this decade. VY did so many amazing things and took the team on his back and won perhaps the biggest game ever. And he was only a junior. Imagine what his #s and win totals would have been had he come back for his senior season. He reminds me of Barry Sanders that way. Some guys just won't stack up career #s wise b/c they didn't start all 4 years or b/c they left early. Colt has shown that he is a winner but he hasn't shown that he is a champion yet. He needs to come up big these last 2 games to cement his place in history.
The talking head - I think it was on ESPN, Greg somebody? - I saw while waiting for the next round of games after Fla-FSU anointed Teebus as the greatest PLAYER ever, not just QB. I was wondering whether the coaches and the rest of the team had anything to do with his success... I'm still expecting the rest of the season to follow the 2005 path: Fla & Tebow greatest of all time, again... our QB finishes second in the Hypesmann, again... we meet them in the Rose Bowl for the NC, again... and we hoist the Crystal Ball, AGAIN. Screw 'em. We're Texas.
I love how when people bring up why Tebow is the "greatest ever" the first thing they mention is his 2 NCs and 1 Heisman. Going into the Rose Bowl against Texas, didn't Matt Leinart also have 2 NCs and a Heisman? And unlike Tebow, Leinart actually started for both NC teams. In fact, Leinart never had a year where he didn't either play for or win the NC! I put VY in front of Leinart because his junior year he was already better than Leinart was his senior year, and obviously he outplayed him in the Rose Bowl. But I also think it is ludicrous to put Tebow in front of Leinart. That is an insult to everything Leinart accomplished. VY and Leinart are the best two QBs of the decade, and Colt and Tebow will duke it out for third place if they meet in Pasadena.
If he's so great why hasn't he been a 4 year starter? Who was the all world QB he couldn't beat out as a freshman?
Tebus was immaculately conceived in a manger in Manila in 1987. The year is now only 22 A.T. (After Timmy) Please make the appropriate changes to your calendar.
Does anyone besides me forget Tommie Frazier. I guess it will take 20 years or so before we can stop hearing about Tebow....or maybe 3 after he has a REggie Bush type NFL career
If Tim Tebow had been at Pearl Harbor, he would've caught all the bombs and torpedos and hurled them back at the Japanese Zeroes. But the original poster wanted stats... try the BCS Bowl Game records that Vince Young holds: Most Total Yards 467-Vince Young, Texas vs. Southern California, Rose, Jan. 4, 2006 (267 pass, 200 rush) Most Total Yards, Championship Game 467-Vince Young, Texas vs. Southern California, Rose, Jan. 4, 2006 (267 pass, 200 rush) Most Touchdowns Responsible For (TDs scored and passed for) 5-Vince Young, Texas vs. Michigan, Rose, Jan. 1, 2005 (4 rush, 1 pass) Most Rushing Yards, Championship Game 200-Vince Young, Texas vs. Southern California, Rose, Jan. 4, 2006 (19 attempts) Most Rushing Yards By A Quarterback 200-Vince Young, Texas vs. Southern California, Rose, Jan. 4, 2006 (19 attempts) Most Rushing Yards By A Quarterback, Championship Game 200-Vince Young, Texas vs. Southern California, Rose, Jan. 4, 2006 (19 attempts) Most Rushing Yards Per Attempt (min. 15 attempts) 10.53-Vince Young, Texas vs. Southern California, Jan. 4, 2006 (19 for 200) Most Rushing Yards Per Attempt, Championship Game (min. 15 attempts) 10.53-Vince Young, Texas vs. Southern California, Jan. 4, 2006 (19 for 200) Most Rushing Touchdowns 4-Vince Young, Texas vs. Michigan, Rose, Jan. 1, 2005 Most Rushing Touchdowns, Championship Game 3-Vince Young, Texas vs. Southern California, Rose, Jan. 4, 2006 Most Pass Completions, Championship Game 30-Vince Young, Texas vs. Southern California, Rose, Jan. 4, 2006 (40 attempts) Most Passes Without An Interception, Championship Game 40-Vince Young, Texas vs. Southern California, Jan. 4, 2006 Highest Completion Percentage, Championship Game (min. 20 attempts) .750-Vince Young, Texas vs. Southern California, Jan. 4, 2006 (30 of 40) SCORING Most Points Scored 24-Vince Young, Texas vs. Michigan, Rose, Jan. 1, 2005 (4 TDs) Most Points Scored, Championship Game 20-Vince Young, Texas vs. Southern California, Rose, Jan. 4, 2006 (3 TDs, 1 2-pt. conversion) For comparison, here are the BCS Bowl Game records Here are the ones Tim Tebow holds: [this space is intentionally left blank] But to the passionately uninfomed, those stats probably won't even make an impression because they will continue to believe what they want to believe. They'll imagine that Florida actually went undefeated last year. They'll imagine that Florida had a good season in 2007. They'll imagine that Tim Tebow was the starter in 2006. They'll believe Tebow is a god and they won't be bothered with trivial details, like... reality.
Awesome post Hooky. That ought to put this non-sense to rest, but sadly, it won't. SECspn will see to it.
Not only are three Nobel scientists studying Tebow's energy, which if harnessed will solve America's dependence on foreign oil, but two others are attempting to duplicate a portion of his coolness to end global warming.
I decided to go back and research just how many of Tim Tebow's rushing TDs went for minimal yardage, and then I compared the results to VY. The results are very enlightening.While VY scored 19 TDs (51.4% of his total) from 10 yards or more, Tebow has only scored 10 (17.9% of his total). And of course VY played one less season. The most amazing stat is how many of Tebow's TDs come from 5 yards or less - 71.4% - compared to 35.1% for VY!!! And from 2 yards or less - 48.2% for TT, 32.4% for VY. Nearly half of Tebow's illustrious rushing TDs are from the 1 or 2 yard variety. Nearly 1/3 are from 1 yard, basically a quarterback sneak. This is the greatest player of all time??? Tebow has only scored 16 rushing touchdowns of greater than 5 yards in his whole career! Vince scored 24 in just three years. VY's average TD run was 15.7 yards. Tebow's average is only 6.59. Keep in mind that the one statistic that Tebow worshippers point to first as evidence of his greatness are his rushing TDs. Never mind that he only averages 4.2 yards a carry over his career (VY averaged 6.8). Never mind that in four years he did not surpass the total rushing yards gained by Vince in three years. He scores all these touchdowns, so he must be great, right? How about 2007, when he won the Heisman based largely on being college football's first 20/20 guy? 91% of his 23 rushing TDs came from within 10 yards! Over half of them were from 3 yards or less! Meanwhile, more than half of VY's career rushing TDs were from 10 yards or more. This is just more evidence of the hyperbole lavished upon what is otherwise among the great quarterbacks of our era. Compare the numbers: Yardage for each rushing touchdown Vince Young's rushing touchdowns 2003: 16, 6, 1, 13, 1, 27, 1, 2, 65, 23, 1 2004: 23, 2, 2, 1, 11, 1, 9, 42, 18, 3, 20, 60, 10, 23 2005: 2, 33, 1, 16, 9, 10, 80, 8, 2, 14, 17, 8 Total: 37 Average yards per TD: 15.70 30+: 13.5% 20+: 27% 10+: 51.4% 6-10: 13.5% 5 or less: 35.1% 2 or less: 32.4% 1 yard: 18.9% Tim Tebow's rushing touchdowns 2006: 1, 2, 1, 16, 12, 20, 1, 1 2007: 1, 3, 16, 7, 5, 9, 6, 2, 9, 2, 2, 3, 1, 1, 5, 1, 3, 2, 5, 2, 23, 5, 1 2008: 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1, 8, 26, 8, 1, 4 2009: 1, 4, 1, 3, 2, 26, 23, 5, 1, 1, 55, 18, 1 Total: 56 Average yards per TD: 6.59 30+: 1.8% 20+: 10.7% 10+: 17.9% 6-10: 10.7% 5 or less: 71.4% 2 or less: 48.2% 1 yard: 32.1%
Tebus is the immaculately conceived love child of Johnny Unitas and General George S Patton. They came to Mrs Tebus in a dream and told her "'Do not be afraid, Mrs. Tebus, you have found favor with the football Gods. You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name 'Timmy' ".
Tim Tebow's moral standards are so inspirational that fully 75% of Miami's prostitutes have entered nunneries, and the other 25% have become abstinance instructors at local girl's schools.