Eric Berry robbed.....

I know I am a little biased because of my love for UT Football and Eric Berry but come on. This is worst than the Woodson/Manning Heisman Trophy debacle. Eric Berry was robbed of the Jim Thorpe Award. The only highlight of our terrible season was watching him each and every week to see what highlight he was gonna make.

Here are the stats, after looking at it, it shouldn't have been close.

Taylor Mays - 49 tackles, 0 sacks, 0 INT
Malcolm Jenkins - 54 tackles, 1 sack, 3 INT for 7 yards
Eric Berry - 72 tackles, 3 sacks, 7 INT for 267 yards and 2 TD's


WTF, what a joke. You tell me who was the best defensive back of these three.

I was just about to post this,I can not believe that he did not win,This is a freaking Joke.I guess this proves if you don't have a winning record you might as well not even be mentioned.

Dude, this coming from a Buckeye fan - Berry should have won that [censored].
Don't get me wrong, I like seeing a Buckeye win an award, but that was ridiculous.

wwwwooooowwww...

CFB is all about the money and the top programs in the country..I mean come on, Berry had this on lock down

I just don't understand it. I could see if there were two candidates that were close but this one should have been a landslide. Kid led the nation in picks, took two of them to the house, broke the SEC record for INT return yards and is only 15 away from breaking the career record by the man who gave the award and he is only a sophomore. Maybe ESPN had something to do with it.

I am not for sure, who actually votes for the award? [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/mad.gif[/img]

Also, you didn't hear me say this but Victor "Macho" Harris was way more deserving than either Mays or Jenkins. Kinda stupid. I will be venting over this for quite a while. Sorry if it annoys anyone.

That may be a bigger ass raping than the one Manning got in 97.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: UTVols2</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Also, you didn't hear me say this but Victor "Macho" Harris was way more deserving than either Mays or Jenkins. Kinda stupid. I will be venting over this for quite a while. Sorry if it annoys anyone. </div></div>

Vent away. I agree completely with you.

i agree that berry should have won the award

but he is jus a sophomore, that may be why he didnt win.


its kind of aggravating to see malcom jenkins and taylor mays both there, when there were two dbs in the SEC with better stats, DJ Moore and Rashad Johnson

What I don't understand is that you could vote for either of the three through a link on ESPN.com. Whoever won the vote on there, actually got 1 vote toward the award. Last night during the ceremony ESPN kept crawling the voting results accross the bottom of the screen. They had the vote reversed. On the website where you vote Berry was in first then Jenkins, then Mays. On ESPN they were crawling on the screen Jenkins, Mays, Berry. Berry had over 50% of the vote on the website.