Everyone's A Winner At UT
Mack Brown has given out annual awards for his Longhorns.
Here are the details:
[Roy] Williams shared Most Valuable Offensive Player with junior RB Cedric Benson, who was named Texas’ Outstanding Offensive Back for the third straight season. Williams also shared the Outstanding Wide Receiver award with FL B.J. Johnson and SE Sloan Thomas.Think about what's wrong with this picture, and click on the [Read More] link when you want to read my take.Junior WLB Derrick Johnson was selected both the Most Valuable Defensive Player and Outstanding Linebacker. DT Marcus Tubbs was selected Outstanding Defensive Lineman with sophomore DT Rodrique Wright. Tubbs also shared the team’s Strength and Conditioning Award with OG Tillman Holloway and senior DS Cullen Loeffler.
CB Nathan Vasher was named Outstanding Defensive Back along with FS Dakarai Pearson. (It’s quite a gesture for Pearson, considering he missed half the season with injuries while Vasher tied the Texas career INT mark at 17 while leading the team with six picks.)
Holloway, the only senior on this year’s O-line, earned Outstanding Offensive Lineman honors. The four other starters on the O-line (junior Jason Glynn, sophomores Will Allen and Jonathan Scott, and redshirt freshman Justin Blalock) shared the offensive Most Improved designation.
Both freshman Vince Young and junior Chance Mock shared the Outstanding Quarterback award while Young was named the Outstanding Offensive Newcomer.
Loeffler earned more hardware with the Longhorn Club Sportsmanship Award while sharing Most Valuable Special Teams Player with sophomore P Richmond McGee and junior PK Dusty Mangum.
Basically, nearly every Longhorn who saw significant action this past season received some sort of an award.
Senior Bo Scaife, sophomore David Thomas and senior Brock Edwards all shared Outstanding Tight End. Senior RB Brett Robin and junior FB Will Matthews shared Most Consistent Offensive Player honors. Robin was also awarded the Lan Hewlett Academic Award and the Coca-Cola Community Service Award.
Senior Kalen Thornton was named the Outstanding Defensive End (my choice would have been freshman Tim Crowder, as Thornton has been a shell of his former self after battling lengthy knee injuries) while senior SLB Reed Boyd was tabbed as Most Consistent Defensive Player (yep, the least we can say about Boyd is that he was consistent).
Hard-hitting sophomore MLB Aaron Harris shared the Most Improved Defensive Player award with junior safety Phillip Geiggar. (The argument here is Geiggar made the defensive play of the year when he stripped Kansas State QB Ell Roberson of the ball inside the red zone halfway through the fourth quarter Oct. 4. The play set up Texas’ 88-yard winning drive in the 24-20 win over the eventual Big 12 champs.)
CB Tarell Brown, S Michael Griffin, DB Aaron Ross and Crowder were each named the Outstanding Defensive Newcomer.
Williams, Tubbs and Holloway were named permanent team captains by their teammates.
If you said something along the lines of, "What the hell is the point naming a position PLAYER of the year if EVERYONE is a co-winner?!" then give yourself a pat on the back.
I mean, three players sharing Wide Receiver of the Year awards ?! They rarely even lined up three wides after Vince Young started lining up behind center.
Five players on the o-line shared Offensive Most Improved awards?! After what they did against Arkansas and Oklahoma?!
The benched quarterback (Mock) and the running back who lines up behind center (Young) shared Outstanding Quarterback honors?!
And three tight ends -- you know, that position that the coaches seemed to forget at UT -- shared Outstanding Tight End awards?!
When I first read this today, I thought that some Sooner or Aggie had hijacked the UT page and put up a parody. But apparently it's legit. Which just proves, there's no parody like Mack Brown in real life.
Honestly, what is the deal? Is this Mack's way of keeping from lying when he tells potential recruits, "Everyone is a winner at UT!"
Maybe if Mack and his coaching staff could figure out a way to stop losing big games, then they wouldn't have to resort to giving out a "Best" award to every damn member of the team, the ballboys, the waterboys, the towelboys, and the cleaning staff.
Mack Brown is a big doofus. Even UT fans are starting to agree.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 12/16/03 20:59 | Big 12 Football | Technorati
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I can fairly be considered a Mack Brown defender, but yeah, this is pretty silly.
Posted by R. Alex @ 22:16 on 12/16/03
Agreed. As a Hurricane fan, I find Mack Brown generally hilarious.
Posted by Daniel @ 09:05 on 12/17/03
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