hold on here...

We are in the time of the year where every sports network and sports geek like me is giving out awards for the year and for the decade. There are three really interesting races. College football player of the decade and NBA team and player of the decade. I will deal with the college football player of the decade because it is bowl season. There are only two people in this category. Matt Leinart and Tim Tebow. Every one will pick Tebow because he is the poster boy for college football. He has two titles, a Heisman Trophy, a sparkling g.p.a , he has no drinking pictures of him on line anywhere, he has broken records at Florida of people like Emmitt Smith and Herschel Walker, and he has done more for college athletes off the field than anyone to my knowledge. Sounds like an open and shut case. His pledge is written on a wall at the school and I am certain a statue is going to erected of him some day. If the Jags draft him, the entire state of Florida might collapse into the Atlantic Ocean. He is a living legend. I wish him well in the N.F.L.
Matt Leinart had a better career than Tim Tebow. He played 3 years at USC and all three years as a starter, he played for the National Championship. He also won the Heisman Trophy and set conference records and University records. He won two "national championships" and lost in his third attempt in arguably the greatest college game ever played. In that game he threw for 386 yards and three touchdowns. It took the greatest individual performance by a college football player to beat his team that night. Vince Young got it done. USC that night did things out of character including blowing a 19 point lead in the fourth quarter. Tebow as a freshman played in the Florida and Ohio State game and had some impact plays. Leinart torched Oklahoma, Michigan, and Texas in all of his title games. USC lost in Leinart's first year at Cal in triple overtime. When USC opened the season that year against Auburn, no one even heard of Matt Leinart. All he did was go to Jordan Hare stadium and beat the Tigers that day and never look back. believe his record at USC as a starter was 37-2. Tebow's record as a starter is 34-6 but he has an unbelievable amount of touchdowns. 84 passing touchdowns and 56 rushing touchdowns. Leinart had 99 passing touchdowns and only 9 rushing touchdowns. Obviously they had two different styles of play. But think about it, Leinart's only losses were in a championship game by 3 points and in triple overtime on the road against a quality opponent. Yes he had Reggie Bush and a hellacious defense. Florida has a ton of pro prospects as well. Percy Harvin may not have won the Heisman like Bush but he was just as spectacular for the Gators.
In my analysis I take 37-2 over 34-6 any day of the week. Matt Leinart wasn't even expected to be anything as a player. He was holding the job for John David Booty one year, the year he won the Heisman. His first year he was supposed to be behind two quarterbacks. Tebow was a High School all American and was supposed to be as great as he was. Leinart wins in a close one!!