NEW YORK The future occasion anyone tells an individual of which higher education football is actually work through a few classes that swap the trophies amongst themselves, make sure he understands in relation to winning the 2011 Heisman Trophy.
Griffin is actually your redshirt junior quarterback coming from Baylor, a double-wide among the conventional mansions in Corsoville. Baylor previous won an outright management meeting tournament throughout 1980 (RIP, Southwest Conference) and, until finally Griffin arrived, final acquired an absolute season throughout 1994.
Griffin took the actual Bears to your 7-6 history as well as some sort of bowl activity previous season. This year, No. 12 Baylor is 9-3 by using wins over three graded teams. In their three-plus seasons, Griffin features placed 52 education details in passing, hastening and total offense. He has cast for 3,998 yards and 36 touchdowns this kind of season, and is particularly upon rate (192.31) for you to fixed a great NCAA single-season document inside passing efficiency.
And as of Saturday night, your university has it is primary winner in the almost all identified trophy within American sports.
"It's fabulous along with believable," Griffin stated as your dog recognised the actual award. "It's astounding since in the actual moment, we are all amazed as soon as great issues happen. But it is really believable because superb points will not occur not having difficult work. The good coach Art Briles always pronounces great issues simply include great effort. We've undoubtedly did wonders pertaining to this. That's correct everybody related to Baylor University features a cause in order to commemorate tonight."
"Hopefully, it will inspire persons to pursue their dreams," Griffin mentioned later. "I built my personal dream a reality."
Griffin is often a design citizen, a truly cinematic university student whom speaks associated with regulation school, an NFL prospect including a extractor with outlandish socks. (On Saturday, they used the Superman pink socks using the Man involving Steel's insignia and, involving course, red capes.) And for the reason that voters indicated, he is able to play several ball.
Griffin attained 405 first-place votes amid your 927 ballots. His stage whole (on some sort of 3-2-1 basis) of 1,687 without difficulty defeated redshirt younger quarterback as well as season-long Heisman favorite Andrew Luck involving Stanford, who seem to complete next by using 1,407 points. Griffin appeared on 80 percent of the ballots; Luck, seventy five percent. Alabama tailback Trent Richardson, who seem to done next using 978 points, made an appearance on 56 percent.
Luck joins working shells Charlie Justice with North Carolina (1948-1949) plus Darren McFadden of Arkansas (2006-2007) because the solely gamers in order to accomplished second in consecutive seasons. However, when in addition to Cardinal working returning Toby Gerhart's second-place finish around 2009, Stanford turns into the primary education together with some consecutive runner-up finishes.
Griffin accessed the Best Buy Theater in Times Square to the regards of plenty of Bears fans, which includes Brittney Griner and the No. one particular Lady Bears golf ball team, that'll have fun with St. John's upon Sunday in the Maggie Dixon Classic at Madison Square Garden.
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