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Travis Hunter Appreciation Thread (Awards: HE12MAN, Walter Camp, Biletnikoff, Bednarik, Lott, Paul Hornung, AP PotY)
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, Fowler’s second year was him giving Rashaan his trophy and he did it again last night. Very happy Alum
So unnatural to me
Edit: the colors
I have to admit being a little befuddled how Lil' Wayne of all people ended up at Travis's Heisman ceremony. Not begrudging anyone, just amused.
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ahoelsken
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I like Josh Pate a lot. This is a really good take on the behavior of Potato State fans.
The "you don't like him because he made you look foolish" thing is completely real and you see it all the time in sports. Dude made bad predictions on guys/teams, they get shown up, and they never forgive the guys/teams they made stupid predictions about.
You are a little lost. CU's colors are Silver and Gold - always have been. When "super-coach" Fairbanks was hired, he insisted on sky blue stuff, his daughter's favorite color. Those unis sucked, as did Fairbank's coaching.
EDIT: during my 2nd cup of coffee, I'm wondering if that was sarcastic
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Some nice comments from Nelson Spruce. I didn't realize he held most of CU's receiving records. He thinks TH has room to improve.
“It’s obvious his athleticism is on a different level,” Spruce said. “I think that allows him to do what he’s doing on both sides of the ball. To me, I guess the amazing part is I think he is so athletic that he can rely on a lot of that and I think he still has a lot of room for improvement, especially on the offensive side of the ball, just viewing it from a receiver’s perspective.”
Spruce was a technician as a route runner, and that allowed him to set CU records for most receptions in a game (19), season (106) and career (294).
“Any success that I had really came in the details and the polished route running, understanding defenses and stuff like that,” Spruce said. “Because of (Hunter’s) athleticism, he might not have had to tap that much into it. Watching a lot of his routes, you don’t necessarily see the nuanced route running, or even the need for it, because he’ll just out-jump you or out-run you.”
That’s not a criticism from Spruce. More so, he marvels at the fact that Hunter has shined without that aspect of the game as a receiver, but believes Hunter will only get better. And, Spruce is impressed that Hunter has been so good as a receiver while also shining on defense.
“I remember playing both ways in high school and that was pushing it,” he said. “When I got to college, the way you feel at the end of those games, just playing one side of the ball, it’s insane that he’s doing it full time on both sides of the ball. I couldn’t imagine it.”
“It’s obvious his athleticism is on a different level,” Spruce said. “I think that allows him to do what he’s doing on both sides of the ball. To me, I guess the amazing part is I think he is so athletic that he can rely on a lot of that and I think he still has a lot of room for improvement, especially on the offensive side of the ball, just viewing it from a receiver’s perspective.”
Spruce was a technician as a route runner, and that allowed him to set CU records for most receptions in a game (19), season (106) and career (294).
“Any success that I had really came in the details and the polished route running, understanding defenses and stuff like that,” Spruce said. “Because of (Hunter’s) athleticism, he might not have had to tap that much into it. Watching a lot of his routes, you don’t necessarily see the nuanced route running, or even the need for it, because he’ll just out-jump you or out-run you.”
That’s not a criticism from Spruce. More so, he marvels at the fact that Hunter has shined without that aspect of the game as a receiver, but believes Hunter will only get better. And, Spruce is impressed that Hunter has been so good as a receiver while also shining on defense.
“I remember playing both ways in high school and that was pushing it,” he said. “When I got to college, the way you feel at the end of those games, just playing one side of the ball, it’s insane that he’s doing it full time on both sides of the ball. I couldn’t imagine it.”
Obviously all the focus is and should be on Travis, but this hit me while driving this morning. Prime has to now be the coach with the fewest years of FBS coaching experience to have a Heisman winner right? I can’t imagine any others did that in 2 years or less of FBS coaching. Insane.
Pretty sure Lincoln Riley had Heisman winners his first two years as a head coach. Coach Prime's gotta pick it up!
I’m glad Prime loves gold.
I wasn't sure that I wanted to befoul the Travis Hunter thread with this discussion, but now that it's over and he won and it won't seem liek sour grapes, I want to vent my spleen about how the media has framed Jeanty.
First of all, I think Jeanty is a great runner, and in probably many other years would have won the Heisman. However, I do not appreciate the coordinated campaign by his school and his conference to denigrate Hunter rather than to hype up their guy. They've been abetted by the media, who act like we've never seen rushing totals like this before.
Consider this comparison between two G5 running backs through 13 games (which, yes, included a conference championship game for both guys):
| Yards | TDs | Receiving Yards | Rec TDs | |
| Running Back A | 2448 | 29 | 230 | 1 |
| Running Back B | 2497 | 29 | 116 | 1 |
Both of these players played for G5 teams that lost to a P5 top 5 team by a field goal in OOC. Both players played for teams that handily won their conference title game, winning a pretty weak conference, and for teams that won 10+ games. Yet I don't recall any outrage when Kevin Smith finished 8th in Heisman voting 17 years ago.
Also, I see plenty of talk about how Jeanty put up more yards than Marcus Allen, who won the Heisman, and almost caught Barry Sanders, who won the Heisman. Those guys put up their rushing totals in 11 games, not 13. Sanders averaged 238 rushing yards per game that season, and Allen 212. Jeanty did a great job, but 192 yards/game is much different than either of those two totals.
The one that pisses me off the most is when people talk about Salaam winning the Heisman with lesser rushing numbers. First of all, Salaam's numbers were in 11 games as well. Secondly, CU played more than half of those games against top 25 programs (and HALF of those were against top 10 programs). It was a much more difficult schedule too.
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Looks like Travis received 16 fewer overall votes than Jeanty. So there are at least 16 idots that shouldn’t have a vote. Total 1st plus 2nd favored Jeanty 826 to 813. Based on 3rd place votes it appears that 13 voters left Travis off their ballots altogether. That is really unforgivable. I didn’t realize Mark Jackson was a Heisman voter!
A voter said on twitter he didn't believe Travis was a top 3 receiver in the Big 12.Looks like Travis received 16 fewer overall votes than Jeanty. So there are at least 16 idots that shouldn’t have a vote. Total 1st plus 2nd favored Jeanty 826 to 813. Based on 3rd place votes it appears that 13 voters left Travis off their ballots altogether. That is really unforgivable. I didn’t realize Mark Jackson was a Heisman voter!
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Yeah, he was doing some streaming from his house. He was unhappy about the negative comments directed to his fiance.
i had noticed it too haha
alec10burks
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****ing bull**** that Travis didn't make the 1st all American team as a WR, he had WAY better numbers than Restrepo and better numbers than McMillan. And Nash was playing in the damn MWC, what a joke.
I know I should be happy with the Heisman and the 1st team defense but still.
I know I should be happy with the Heisman and the 1st team defense but still.
What were the comments?
You are supporting these ****nuts by watching their youtubes and linking. They're laughing all the way to the bank. **** them. They can crawl back in their rage cage and die.
I actually think that if there was no Travis Hunter this year, Jeanty would have done worse in the voting. He was propped up by haters wanting to take out out their rage on Prime and Travis. If Carson Beck didn't suck or Miami won another game and there was no need to denigrate Travis by pumping up Jeanty, he would have finished third or fourth and everyone would have said "Cute season, but call me when you play a real schedule."
I won’t comment on her intentions but it was pretty wild that during a scheduled fan photo shoot event the day after the Heisman (with tons of cameras on her and audibly loud enough for Travis and fans and surrounding folks to hear) to say “what am I supposed to do, just sit here all day”.
Let the man enjoy his moment, insanely selfish thing to say. And that’s not even mentioning that Prime had to tell her to stand up when Travis was announced as the winner.