I wish college football would just get on with it and cut the Group of 5 out entirely already.
I don’t want it to happen.
But you know it’s coming eventually.
They want to do it.
Just get it over with.
I’m sure Warren had on average tougher individual matchups.
But with the exception of 2 games, Penn State’s B1G schedule wasn’t tough.
Tyler Warren had a 5-star QB throwing to him all year long.
That Harold Fannin Jr. is a glorified wide receiver.
They have zero fucking clue if that’s actually true or not.
They just assume with the numbers he has that he must be lining up at wideout every play.
Fannin’s run blocking grade dwarfs Warren’s.
Tyler Warren has 191 rushing yards & 4 rush TD’s.
Yards Penn State certainly couldn’t have gotten from elsewhere.
I think that’s what did it.
But aside from that, he busted a huge run against Purdue.
That’s where Bowling Green let Fannin down.
Had they let him punch in 3 or 4 TD’s from inside the 10.
Had they more occasionally thrown him in the wildcat on short yardage situations until he busted a big one.
That might have done it for him.
It’s not like he wasn’t capable.
But they didn’t.
Because anything that does mention Tyler Warren’s stats has to come with a fine print disclaimer.
That’s probably it more than anything.
Tyler Warren is a better tight end prospect.
He probably has better measurables.
Which I guess is what college football has always been about to a large degree.
The results on the field don’t matter nearly as much as a lot of people think they should.
For whatever reason, that precedent was set in college football a long time ago.
We don’t do it with any other sports.
I fucking hate it, but that’s the way it is.
I’m sure that same mentality goes into voting for these awards as well.
When he has as good of a season as a tight end can possibly have.
Above all I’m disappointed in myself for ever getting my hopes up.
What a fucking idiot I am.
And another one of them is this guy…
He’s an incredible player.
He’ll have an incredible NFL career.
He deserves… something.
B1G tight end of the year, yes.
P4 tight end of the year.
But not the John Mackey Award.
