Last night I was talking with my fiance, who has been fed up with football a time or 2 this semester. And I just told her how disappointed I was. She wholeheartedly agreed. Going into this season I had always had a little bit of soreness towards Graham, mainly because of the Missouri fiasco my freshman year, but this year I have found TONS of respect for the guy. It makes me sick that he has had to go through all of this at the end of the season. If there is a player in CFB that deserves this, it is not Graham. Seeing how he handled it only makes matters worse for me, because it confirms that he is the class act that I knew he had become. Congratulations on a fantastic season Graham!!

After speaking to a source with inside info on the process, I was able to get some clarification that has not been made public.

Apparently Graham totally bombed the Swim Suit portion of the competition. And with the low score in such a pivital portion of the pageant, there was no way to include him with the guys invited to New York….BS

I completely agree with Seth’s wife. This is complete bullshit. I appreciate the way Harrell has handled the snub. I’m not sure I would have been able to do it.

Bottomline, it takes away form the integrity of the award. For some time now, I’ve felt it was more and more of a popularity award. This just seals it for me. I really could care less who wins the award. It’s become Best Player from a Big School that is constantly talked about by the Media.

I think all self-respecting Red Raider fans should simply not watch the ceremony on Saturday night . You can bet your ass I won’t be watching. I’m planning to watch the Tech vs UT game on DVR instead. That would be the one where Harrell completely out-played one of their heisman finalist.

Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.

Darren Sproles knows Graham’s pain.

This blows but what can you do. We have always been the ugly step children and we always will. That really does suck for Graham. At least Graham won the heart award, Tech got more of it than any school I know.

I think Bradford is going to win it. However, I think if Tech or UT had won the tiebreaker, the QB of that team would have won it. Most of the voters only care about what happened at the very end of the season.

But who knows, Tebow might win it again…

Every week they tell you “who” the worthy kids are to be in your heisman ballot and after every game, they tell you which kid has moved up in the race and they tell you it’s his to lose, and he just passed him on the list. Blah, blah! Cowlishaw is just a shill for espn and has been sucking their teat for the past 5 years trying to make it big time. He even tried to become their"NASCAR" beat writer. It’s funny when considering how DMN is tanking, that they go and give a local kid the shaft. I need to think about my DMN subscription.

This site predicts the voting outcome based on infomration that they have received from actual voters. The distance between 3 and 4 that they predict is much larger than I would have thought. Harrell 4th, Crabtree 6th.

So, i’ve been in a travel snafu the last day or two and have been reading everything on my cell phone (SB nation needs to hurry up to fix the ability to do mobile postings) It’s been really frustrating. I got home in time to see college football live and i must say, i like that bit they did on him. and yes…. i’m pissed and all

deserves an invite, at least.

Harrell threw for 361 yds, 2 TDs and 1 int. They scored 21 pts against the #1 team (if you believe the BCS) on the road. Against an unranked Ole Miss at home, Tebow willed his team to score 30 pts and against Hawaii he completed 9 passes! Even in the TTech blowout, Bradford completed only 14 passes and was the Big12 player of the Week, even though OU had 2 backs over 100 yds each at >5yds/carry and at least 2 tds each. It was the OU running game, not Bradford, that beat Tech. And McCoy was not much of a factor in the TTU game.

I just don’t buy the excuse that a bad loss did him in.

I’m trying to find the silver lining in all of this. I’m still fuming at the snub. Not only is Graham most CERTAINLY one of the best overall players in the Country, he exemplifies the student-athlete. I would take him to run my team over McCoy ANY day……….hands down, not even close. What also concerns me is the way potential recruits will look at this. What we’re basically saying is, you might be the best QB, RB, WR in the nation, you can come to Tech and have enourmous success (both statistically and in terms of wins) but it won’t mean jack-crap as far as anyone outside of our circle is concerned. How can this not hurt us from a recruiting standpoint? My heart tells me somehow el Capitan will use this as some sort of motivational tool, but my head tells me it won’t matter when OU, UT et al come knocking at those kids’ doors. Can someone tell me how this can work in our favor looking ahead? I’ve read about the optimism for Graham as he moves on, but my God, to call him out tonight on ESPN and say “sorry Graham, you’re not going to be with us in NY” and see him with his head down……….they can stick sorry up their a$$. Nobody likes injustice, particularly if they’ve had a taste of it. I’m pissed-off and this is going to take awhile for me to get over. They treat our players and program this way, then act befuddled when our fans raise ten kinds of hell when the opportunity arises. My wife is an Aggie and even she’s pissed at this. She finally understands my David vs Goliath analogy that I’ve always tried to make her understand as we compete against the OU’s, UT’s and now the national POS media. I’m rambling now but I would love to know that this won’t hurt our program moving forward. I know we’ve had more exposure this year than ever really but how can we build (better recruits from bigger schools) with this type of treatment? I’m done, thanks for the opportunity to vent.