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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3456029, member: 27"] Brown won, McPherson finished 2nd. Don had been plagued by injuries until his senior season, so he came pretty much out of nowhere, in 1987 much as the Entire Syracuse team did. A lot of the Heisman voters are old, don’t follow the sport closely and just vote for the person with the most press. That would be Brown In 1987. Donnie’s slim chances were Really hurt when Rick Reilly wrote an article for Sports Illustrated extolling the virtues of D1AA player Gordie Lockbaum, imploring voters to vote for him for the Heisman. Lockbaum was a decent offensive player and a good defensive player whose primary selling point was him playing both ways in 1987. I don’t think anyone, including Gordie, Would include in the top 100 players in college football in 1987. But a bunch of voters took the bait, and voted for the two way player, splitting some of the vote in the Northeast between him and McPherson. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/awards/heisman-1987.html[/URL] There have been many questionable Herman choices but this one was the most egregious. This one or maybe the bizarre vote that gave the Heisman to another overrated ND player on a bad Irish team in 1956/ Here are the stats for Tim Brown and Don McPherson in 1987: [B]Tim Brown[/B] [TABLE] [TR] [TD]Games[/TD] [TD]KO Returns[/TD] [TD]Yards[/TD] [TD]Avg[/TD] [TD]TDs[/TD] [TD]Punt Returns[/TD] [TD]Yards[/TD] [TD]Avg[/TD] [TD]TDs[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]11[/TD] [TD]23[/TD] [TD]456[/TD] [TD]19.8[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]34[/TD] [TD]401[/TD] [TD]11.8[/TD] [TD]3[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE] [TR] [TD]Games[/TD] [TD]Catches[/TD] [TD]Yards[/TD] [TD]Avg[/TD] [TD]TDs[/TD] [TD]Att[/TD] [TD]Yards[/TD] [TD]Avg[/TD] [TD]TDs[/TD] [TD]Plays[/TD] [TD]Yards[/TD] [TD]Avg[/TD] [TD]TDs[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]11[/TD] [TD]39[/TD] [TD]846[/TD] [TD]21.7[/TD] [TD]3[/TD] [TD]34[/TD] [TD]144[/TD] [TD]4.2[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD]73[/TD] [TD]990[/TD] [TD]13.6[/TD] [TD]4[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [B]Don McPherson[/B] [TABLE] [TR] [TD]Games[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Completions Passes Pct Yards Yards/AttAdj Yds/AttTDs Int Rate1112922956.3234110.210.02211164.3 [TABLE] [TR] [TD]Games[/TD] [TD]Att[/TD] [TD]Yards[/TD] [TD]Avg[/TD] [TD]TDs[/TD] [TD]Rec[/TD] [TD]Yards[/TD] [TD]Avg[/TD] [TD]TDs[/TD] [TD]Plays[/TD] [TD]Yards[/TD] [TD]Avg[/TD] [TD]TDs[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]11[/TD] [TD]110[/TD] [TD]230[/TD] [TD]2.1[/TD] [TD]5[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD]7[/TD] [TD]7.0[/TD] [TD]1[/TD] [TD]111[/TD] [TD]237[/TD] [TD]2.1[/TD] [TD]6[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Donnie led the county in passing efficiency. He also led the country in TDs responsible for (28). And led Syracuse to an undefeated season, finishing 4th in the country. Tim actually had a worse year than his junior season. He didn’t led the country in anything. He had 3 TDs receiving. You read that right. He had 1 rushing TD and 3 TDs returning punts. He was a good punt returner, an average KO returner and a decent WR. And ND ended 1987 ranked 17th in the country, finishing 8-4. It is ridiculous that he was even considered. Players like Donnie, Thurman Thomas and Craig Hayward were far more impactful. [/QUOTE]

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