Michigan St fans doing #BoycottTheHeisman. But why?

Which is exactly the same as saying you wouldn’t go to school in Ann Arbor even if you got in.

Or a kid saying he's boycotting a party his older brother was invited to but he wasn't 

To piggyback off of this can somebody explain what the fuck this was...

• Only 7 rush attempts for 57 yards and a TD vs. Youngstown State when they had their starters still playing going into the 4th quarter. This was literally one week after steamrolling Northwestern with 23 attempts for 264 yards (11.5 ypc) and 4 TDs.

By typical Heisman criteria, I think Walker pretty clearly deserves to be there.  He had a very good statistical year at a skill position, he had a monster game in his team's biggest game, and the difference between him and his backup showed just how much of his performance was on him vs. his team.  Any reasonably good qb could have done what Stroud and Young did with the talent around them.

 He probably couldn't win because of the Ohio State game, but at the same time it wasn't his decision to abandon the run.  I have to expect a better outcome for him and the team if they had kept with the running game.

Exactly. He isnt even Leveon Bell good. 2012 Leveon Bell had 1783 yards, 12 TDs and 32 receptions. 

@neverpunt

I disagree with your first statement. You can certainly be one of the best players in college football despite losing a game to a "bad team"

Or if your team is not a conference champ. 

Heck your team can be awful and that shouldn't be a major consideration 

Your stats speak more 

Especially when compared to Hassan.

  Also not surprising to see a fan base advocating for their player even if they are not being logical

Big Time player perform in big time games.  If you compare Haskins in MSU and OSU tilts and Walker in UM and OSU tilts, Haskins outrushes him with the same number of touchdowns.  Like every Sparty debate, they cherry pick dates, timelines, stats, etc. then whine when its exposed.  

Walker’s not the best at his position in Michigan!

I agree -- and get no schadenfreude from him being left out.  That team was basically New Mexico St without him, as the OSU game proved

That said, this salty sparty reaction is embarrassing, even for them

So who loses their spot? Is he better then Hutchinson?

They only invite four now, so harder to get invited to the ceremony.

Jonathan Taylor finished 5th in voting in 2019, and as great as Kenneth Walker's season was, it doesn't quite hold a candle to Jonathan Taylor's 2019 campaign (which, in other eerie similarities, saw him 5th behind 3 QBs and a DE (Young).

FWIW, Hutchinson is closer to 2019 Chase Young than Kenneth Walker is to 2019 Jonathan Taylor, IMO.

Breece Hall deserves an invite before Walker.  Led the nation in scoring, all purpose yards, rushing TDs, 6th in rushing yards. Led the nation in rushing in 2020.

Ahkshually, they’ve been boycotting the Heisman since 1936

I boycott presidential inaugurations, the Olympics, and Hollywood premiers all the time. Because if I went, I’d be arrested for trespassing. 

True dat....

We don’t worry about it. We revel in it. Deal me in!

Can you really embarrass them when they have no shame? 

Hey Sparty

KW3 had a ton of Heisman moments in the 1st half against OSU.  LOL, they so easily forget facts.

OSU could embarrass them

You say this hypothetically for some reason.

I had to have a peek at the RCMB after the B1G championship game.  It did not disappoint.  1300 posts on a game-day thread for a game they weren't even playing in.

LOL!!! Best comment of the thread.  Just curious which "World" is he referring to?  Is it the one where the world is flat?

i live in tokyo japan. as you can imagine, its pretty rare to see college gear here of any kind. occasionally you will see notre dame, sometimes michigan or ucla / berkley gear that is sold in second hand shops and picked up by japanese hipsters. they almost always choose this gear for the color combinations rather than any sort of affinity (or even awareness) of the underlying school. i've stopped a few of these hipsters before when ive spotted them in michigan gear and they always look at me like im nuts and have no idea what to do/say when i start yelling 'go blue' at them. ive stopped doing that. 

anyway, the day of the michigan msu game i was engaging in my usual pre-game routine listening to podcasts and reading about the game in the comfort of my apartment. the noon games start at 1am or 2am sunday morning here (depending on daylight savings) so there is quite a bit of day to kill before the actual game. after about three hours of winding myself up via mgopodcast, sam webb and the victors board, i was getting too stressed out and decided to take a walk over to the new olympic stadium to get my mind off the game looming later that day. my apartment is in the middle of town (near shibuya for those who know tokyo), but its on a quiet street off of a main thoroughfare. its primarily residential and there is little foot traffic. its pretty rare to see more than one or two people on that street at a time and i cant remember ever seeing anyone in recognizable college gear on my street in the nearly two years ive lived at this address. however, as i stepped out of my apartment's front entrance the day of top-5 match-up, the first person i see is a young japanese man wearing a white and green msu crewneck sweatshirt right in front of my apartment. perhaps it would have been forgivable or gone unnoticed if he had just been walking or otherwise out of my eye shot, but no, he was stopped right in front of my apartment adjusting his baby who he was pushing around in his stroller, and was positioned such that he was all but presenting the monogram 'michigan state' on his sweatshirt towards my direction. it was as if he had been specifically placed there by the michigan-hating football gods to exert maximum psychic damage on my BPONE'd soul. he did not look like an msu grad (he had a dignified air and relatable disposition) and i suspect if i asked him about the shirt he would have no idea about its significance (see above). instead i just scowled at him for this most improbable, absurd slight (of which he was entirely oblivious).

i had a pit in my stomach walking around after that and kept thinking back on the chances of that happening and how so much had to go 'right' for our paths to cross at that critical moment ahead of the the game. had he (or i) been a few minutes late/early, or if he had taken a different street, or just chosen a different sweatshirt that day, maybe my confidence wouldn't have been shook and maybe just maybe jj doesnt fumble the snap or maybe sparty bob doesn't takeover the replay booth. i ponder that sequence often when thinking back on the msu game - where everything that had to go perfectly right for MSU to win ultimately did, and am in awe of the universe's cruel sense of humor. 

i went on high alert after that and ahead of the osu game i opted not to go outside at all and holed up inside all day out of fear of running into some scarlet and grey on the tokyo streets. it paid off.