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Tebow "Controversy" is ridiculous!


SEC Media Days were wrapped up yesterday, and thank God that they are over. Ever since the All-SEC teams as voted on by the coaches were revealed and it was known that Tim Tebow wasn't a unanimous first-team selection, the event that is SEC Media Days turned into the Who Didn't Vote for Tebow Days! Everywhere you turned -any sports channel on the TV, the radio or the Internet- hosts, analysts, coaches, fans, and members of the media were talking about who didn't vote for Tim Tebow. Finally, on Friday morning, everybody found out who the "mystery man" was when Steve Spurrier admitted that he -actually, his Sports Info. Director- voted for Jevan Snead as his first-team QB rather than Tebow. Spurrier said it was a mistake because his SID filled out the ballot (like, according to Spurrier, he does every year), gave it to Spurrier to glance over, and Spurrier, not really glancing over it, said it was fine. (For the record, I believe him.) Spurrier said he called his SID and told him that surely, he put Tebow down as the first-team QB, but the SID said he actually put Snead on the first-team ballot and that's how it happened. The part that showed how stupid all of this really is was Spurrier's five minute apology to Tebow and the media at the beginning of his media session. The guy explained his "mistake", took full responsibility for it, apologized a million times and looked totally embarrassed.

My question is why? Isn't this a free country? Don't we as Americans have the right to vote for whoever we want to in any election or on any ballot? Even if it wasn't a mistake and Spurrier really did mean to vote for Snead, why in the world is everybody on his back about it? Every coach is entitled to his own opinion, and Spurrier, just like every other coach, should have been able to vote for whoever he wanted to and not get hounded about it. Instead, because Tebow wasn't (gasp) a unanimous choice on the first team All-SEC ballot, every single coach was asked at the beginning of his session who he voted for at QB for the first team, and a 60+ year old man and college football legend looks like a convicted serial killer on death row pleading with the judge to forgive him for the terrible crime of not voting for Tim Tebow. Yes, Tim Tebow is a great player, and he may be the most decorated player in the history of college football if he can pull off another national title and maybe another Heisman trophy. He's a great leader. But what Steve Spurrier -and really, every SEC coach- had to go through just because Tim Tebow wasn't a unanimous pick for the first-team All-SEC team was ridiculous. They were asked more questions about Tebow and that situation than they were asked about their own football team. You mean the great Tim Tebow only got 10 of the possible 12 votes (Meyer can't vote for his own QB)?? Oh no! The world is coming to an end! What are we going to do? Does the media really need all 11 coaches to vote for Tebow to know that he is the best QB in the SEC? This "Tebow-mania" is getting way out of hand. What's happens next? Do the media and the fans hold a candlelight vigil when Tebow is done playing college football and moves on to the NFL? Like I said earlier, Tebow is one of the greatest college football players ever, and can still add on to those credentials this season, but this is going way over the top. Let's just enjoy what Tebow is doing as a college football player and be fans, not stalkers.

We're all just trying to have a good time here. Don't be a jerk, and we won't have a problem with you. War Eagle!

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