Vote for Trey Burke for SI.com Male College Athlete of the Year
Looks like SI.com is doing online voting for a male and female college athlete of the year.
THE LINK: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-athlete-of-the-year/?sct=hp_t11_a3&eref=sihp
Trey is up against Khalid Holmes the lineman from USC, Cornell wrestler Kyle Dake, St. Cloud State hockey player Drew LeBlanc and Duke basketball player Tyler Thornton.
I know the MGoCommunity loves it some voting competition so get to it.
DAMN YOU!!!!
They happen........
In tribute to Pasadenablue's post, Trey is down big to the wrestler from Cornell so gets to votin'.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-athlete-of-the-year/?sct=hp_t11_a3&eref=sihp
Ironically, if I hadn't spent time searching the board to see if this had already been posted, my post probably would've been first.
I can do that.
Trey Burke (NPOY, Wooden Award Winner, future Lottery Pick) is losing in this poll to a wrestler from Cornell. QED
Hope this kid sticks around for three years and is a great Olympian.
OK ok, wrestler, amazing, etc. etc. I'd point out, wrestling is NOT gonna be an Olympic sport someday, unlike hoops, so, like, ok, right, not relevant.
Anyhoo...
Explain to me how a Dook basketball player makes this list? Trey was All-Everything in hoops this year. Won exactly every national award. So on what possible basis does ANY other hoops player make this list? And, how on Earth does this guy from Dook make it, over every other possible option? It's embarrassing, really. Surely, in ALL of college sports, there is SOME other male athlete deserving to be here, instead of a second basketball player. Like, maybe, first freshman to win the Heisman? Or... Denard!
Tyler Thornton...Whaa?
This list is absolutely insane. If a guy is not the consensus best in his particular sport, how can he possibly be the best of ANY college athlete? I don't see how the USC football player or the Duke basketball player can be considered at all. Seems like you'd have to be an idiot to vote for either. (On an aside, I'd never heard of either of these guys). Couldn't they at least find somebody who dominated his own sport?
That leaves the Hobey Baker winner, Kyle Dake, and Trey Burke. Dake is the consensus #2 NCAA wrestler of ALL TIME behind Cael Sanderson who went 4 years undefeated in the 1990s. I don't think anyone is making the case for Burke or LeBlanc to be the greatest ever at their sports. Case closed. Dake is the best.
Yeah, I had to vote for Kyle Dake also. 4 years, 4 different classes (last class was above his weight), 4 national championships, and 2 straight undefeated seasons. No brainer.