The Heisman Trophy: college football's most coveted singular award. What I find almost irritating is the fact that some schools actually campaign for their "candidate" to win. Schools sending out "information" to voters about their "candidate", er, I mean player. Along with launching a campaign comes spending money on that campaign. There's politics involved in this on some level. Funny how the election of a Heisman winner has become so eerily similar to electing our nation's President.
Will Tebow win it? I ask you a better question: Does Tebow actually need a "campaign" in order to win it?
No way. He already has a free, organized Heisman campaign: the media.
Every week (if not every day) of the upcoming season, there will be a "Tim Tebow for Heisman" watch rather it's called that or not. All we will need to do is watch any sports network and there will be Florida Gator highlights with Tebow front and center. If we miss that, I'm sure we could get our fix via You Tube. The national media has Tebow so far hyped that those in Gainesville need not spend a single cent to garner votes for their guy. Even during the past offseason, every time college football was mentioned, so was Tebow.
I'm not suggesting that Tebow doesn't deserve the coverage. I'm not hating on Tebow and his obvious and immense talents he possesses as a football player. What I am suggesting is that Florida can issue the money they would've spent on Tebow's Heisman "junk" and redirect it to the school's general scholarship fund.
That would be money well spent.
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