These days, sportswriters (but mostly idiot sports bloggers) go above and beyond to bring readers a story that really has no significance, whatsoever.
Today’s example comes from the world of college football, where it appears University of Florida and all-world quarterback Tim Tebow wasn’t a unanimous first-team choice in the preseason Southeastern Conference poll. Tebow, the 2007 Heisman Trophy winner and two-time national champion, received all by one vote, which went to Ole Miss QB Jevan Snead.
The perpetrator? None other than South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier, a former Heisman winner at Florida himself. The Old Ball Coach went against the grain with his ballot, but did he really?
Spurrier said during a press conference this morning there was a miscommunication, he and asked SEC associate commissioner Charles Bloom to change his vote to Tebow. Apparently he allowed an assistant coach to fill out the ballot because, as you can guess, head college football coaches have more important things to do than fill out stupid polls.
(As a side note, I've always liked Spurrier because he's never forgotten where he came from. My example being, when he was leading Florida to great sucess during the 1990s, he always gave Duke - the first school to give him a head coaching gig - a vote in the preseason rankings. That's pretty cool.)
Anyway, what’s the big deal? It’s a PRESEASON POLL. Games have yet to be played, and if I’m not mistaken, Snead beat Tebow head to head last year.
I’ll be the first to tell you that I’m a huge Florida Gators fan, and to be honest, these kinds of things make me a little happy. Something you can’t do to Tim Tebow is challenge him. If there’s one coach out there who doesn’t think Tebow is the best quarterback in the best conference in the nation, he’ll prove to you he is.
Eight years after he left Gainesville, and the Old Ball Coach is still helping Florida win national titles.
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