Much has been said about awards that depend on subjectively chosen judges and voters who use subjective criteria. This includes Hall of Fame, MVP, Rookie of the Year, Gymnastics, Figure Skating, Oscars, Grammy's, JD Power Rankings, Michelin Stars and any other award determined by personal assessment of the value of performance. The AP Polls? Who dat? The Associated Press are not sports gods, gurus, griots, savants or diviners. Hell they don't even have good hindsight. If they did they would get more accurate each year instead always being all over the place with the preseason, in-season and post-season rankings. College sports ranking system is a stanking system.
The 2024 Heisman Trophy Award is shaping up to be a travesty for Travis Hunter.All awards should publish their criteria and give them to each voter like jury instructions. Then each voter should be required to detail the basis for each person in their top five, and then all of that should be made available to the general public. Otherwise, why should we respect their decisions when far too often, injustice takes place?
The way it works now for all such awards, is that voters get to hide their subjectiveness and, because they are humans during these times, they likely feel all powerful by having a vote and with that kind of self-esteem, they are more likely to be tempted to use unfair criteria, and some, likely taking bribes by however many degrees of separation.Even the team ranking systems and polls are very subjective and automatically gives those on the preseason poll an advantage. The criteria for these rankings are suspicious, especially the “strength of schedule.” Everything is slanted towards the SEC. Even the college football playoffs is based on rankings that somehow magically these not-so-gurus are able to figure out before the season even starts. This is all about giving them subjective cover to double up and triple up on SEC and Big 10 Teams. So the College Football Playoffs should just be called the Power 5 Finger Discount Playoffs. We use our fingers to steal and reserve one finger for the rest of y'all. The power and the money, the money and the power is the theme song of all societies. See other messages on the FBS and FCS and NCAA.
Just in case you don't know, almost all awards, voting systems, and judging promoted by the favored group, are designed and controlled by the favored group, and exist for the purpose of promoting the imbalanced agenda of the favored group.TV Reminds Us Subjectivity Is The Dominant Mindset, Approach, Logic
Despite going off the right side of the road from time to time, Nightcap got this one right regarding the Heisman.Today, 09.28.24, on the pregame to Colorado Buffaloes versus UCF Knights, one commentator who is a Heisman voter said he would vote for Travis Hunter today based on what he is doing, but not if Colorado has a subpar record.
Another commentator who is not a voter, rightly said, the Heisman is not a team award.
The third commentator said he would vote for Cam Ward first and Travis second, but did not give a single basis for that statement. It couldn't possibly be that Cam is a better player than Travis. Even if Cameron Ward of the Miami Hurricane is the best QB thus far, that does not eclipse what Travis Hunter has done thus far.
One announcer basically said the best player would elevate all others on his team, therefore their team record would reflect it and not have more than 3 losses.
The Heisman and other awards are just like political voting that continues to serve special interests.
So if the 2024 Heisman was left up to a larger group of subjective voters such as all USA citizens, the result would be just as erroneous as the 2024 Heisman is shaping up to be and Caitlin Clark would win the Heisman.
If Travis Hunter does not win the Heisman, the wrong person will win, and this will be just as erroneous as choosing anyone else based on personal preference, another word for subjective reasoning.
By The Way
Even if we consider the football rankings and polls, which are opinions, to have credibility, we might as well wait until at least all teams have played 8 games, thus have completed two-thirds of the season. By then things will have partly shaken out after several in-conference games. Yeah, I know rankings are used to determine the at-large bids to the playoffs, but the first priority and only controllable is to win all games and the conference championship.Conferences that are not among the 5 who receive automatic bids, should sue the NCAA for unfair practices.
