Cool article about Drew Henson on Bleacher Report
For those interested (gotta have something to read during the offseason), Bleacher Report just did a big article on Drew Henson and his current job as a scout.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2487901-once-ticketed-for-2-sport-su…;
Presumably due to pressure from the public and the Hensons, Lloyd played Drew a lot. Indeed, his PT was extraordinary given that he was competing with a guy who was so good that he would become arguably the best NFL QB of all time. Consider the first half of the 1999 season. Drew had the majority of PT in 2 of the first 6 games--one of which was very close. In 4 of 5 games that were narrow wins or losses, Drew also took 29-76% of the PT from Brady. Only after a critical loss to MSU (in which Henson played nearly 30% of the game) did Lloyd give the vast majority of playing time to Brady.
To prevent losing sight of the OP’s main point over one factual error (even a published one), here is support for most important fact: the percent of passing + rushing attempts for Drew Henson (vs. Brady) in 1999*
1st half of season
31% in a close (26-22) win over ND.
56% in a (37-3) blowout of Rutgers
76% in a close (18-13) win over Syracuse
23% in a close (21-16) win over Wisc
16% in a (38-12) win over Purdue
29% in a (34-31) loss to MSU
2nd half of season
8% in a (35-29) loss to Ill
0% in a close (34-31) win over Ind
41% in a (37-3) win over NW.
0% in a close (24-14) win over PSU.
0% in a (21-14) win over OSU.
4% in a (35-34) win over Ala.
*(from published stats, I cannot determine the number of times Drew handed off. But the numbers above give a rough idea of his involvement)
http://statsarchive.ath.umich.edu/VS-Football/schedlist.php
It wasn't the MSU loss that ended the platoon. It was the Illinois loss the next week. Henson played the second quarter of that game, as he had all season. But after that loss, Carr junked the platoon and went with Brady. (The playing time Henson got against NW was mop-up duty.)
The Michigan Daily is wrong. Brady started every game. Henson worked in the second quarter at the start of the year. Brady was always "the hot hand" and always finished out the game. This experiment was over after Drew played horribly in the 2nd Qtr vs. MSU and Brady almost lead the team back in the 2nd half.
This experiment was one of the worst things Lloyd Carr ever did as HC at Michigan. Some say he was pressured by Dan Henson, Drews dad to do this... It failed.
That 1999 team was loaded and could have contended for the NC had Brady been able to do what he should have been allowed to do.
Please refer to the 3:30 mark below
Brady wasn't always the hot hand. Henson started the second half against Syracuse (where he went the distance) and MSU (where he was pulled).
case. How could the NCAA stop baseball from drafting players? Henson never entered the draft, something that the NFL and NBA require underclassmen to do. Henson was drafted directly out of HS. He wasn't even an underclassman yet.
in several ways. ( I'm sure others can come up with better ideas given more time, but here are a few quick thoughts)
1. by penalizing boosters' teams for tampering with another team's roster--not just with paying players on their favored teams. Somewhat as the IRS limits the ability of taxpayers to value deducted goods above their market value, the NCAA could penalize the team of the booster if he pays a player far beyond his market value to leave the rival team. A panel could estimate a range for that value somewhat as sometimes done in arbitration or compensation decisions. If the proposed transaction exceeds that range, the booster's school might have to dissociate from the booster--refusing his further contributions--or face even more severe penalties.
2. by declaring the player ineligible for college sports if he violates amateurism requirements in any sport.. Yet, the NCAA allows college players like Henson to be able to actually play summer pro baseball in the minor leagues, yet remain eligible for college FB. This creates the opportunity for college rivals who own pro teams, like Steinbrenner, to pay off players to leave their rival college FB teams.
3. by allowing college players in any sport to get paid what they're worth. Whether or not the pro teams in some sports are less inclined to draft and pay college players in certain sports (eg FB), great college players with pro potential do still have considerable economic value for colleges and TV networks as well as video and equipment companies. Yet the NCAA does not allow them to share the wealth. If it did, that would discourage not just the kind of tampering of Steinbrenner with Henson. It would discourage a far more pervasive problem-- boosters gaining advantage by paying their own team's players under the table.
Although others may come up with even better ideas, clearly the system is flawed and produces perverse incentives. Indeed, although Henson--a HS class valedictorian--was smart enough to graduate from college despite leaving early, that is not the case for many other players.
So, could the NCAA come up with a better, more equitable solution--and also one that would help college players finish their degrees? I think so. Exactly what that solution should be deserves more serious discussion in the NCAA.
Then upvoted for Drew Henson.
I believe it was the Assistant to the Traveling Secretary that influenced Stienbrenner to make that contract offer to Drew.
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While under the influence of cheap envelope glue. Eventually that led to tragic, yet convenient, consequences.
The softball program should probably go ahead and offer Perry Flynn a scholarship.