Pitta = Robbed

[craigoscarson]

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/7053 ... -list.html

One more reason the BCS can burn in hell.

[CAFB_04-12]

Yeah, Jay Drew had a blurb about it being TONIGHT as well, but ESPN lists it as TOMORROW night at 5 pm MST.

Hope he wins!

[byutx]

My guess is that the Call article is intended for print tomorrow.

[gmj81]

It's going to be tight. Pitta without a doubt deserves it. I know they say they don't give awards out based on a "career", only on that year's performance but he got royally screwed last year by not being in the final three at the very least. As the NCAA leader in almost everything by a TE he deserves the award even forgetting the fact that he's 1st in all but one or two categories this year. If they try to pull the "competition" card again on this one, I'm going to be pissed. I'd like to see anybody get the kind of numbers he's had being double and triple teamed the majority of the last two years.

[craigoscarson]

It's going to be tight. Pitta without a doubt deserves it. I know they say they don't give awards out based on a "career", only on that year's performance but he got royally screwed last year by not being in the final three at the very least. As the NCAA leader in almost everything by a TE he deserves the award even forgetting the fact that he's 1st in all but one or two categories this year. If they try to pull the "competition" card again on this one, I'm going to be pissed. I'd like to see anybody get the kind of numbers he's had being double and triple teamed the majority of the last two years.

We're not just talking about a career though, we're talking about the leading TE receiver (statswise) in the history of college football.

[Schmoe]

If Pitta gets stiffed on this, it will be the only thing more infuriating than the Poinsettia Bowl II that is the Fiesta Bowl.

[craigoscarson]

Bottom of the screen on ESPN says Aaaron Hernandez won it...

I cannot tell you how pissed I am right now.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/awards

[StatsCougar]

Just confirmed it on espn's website. What more did they want Pitta to do? The "other" TE on the team was second team all conference. The Mackey Award is now just be a big joke.

[jmrmoney]

It is just a popularity contest, just like the Heisman and so many others are. It will usually always go to the player from a "royal" conference before a team like BYU. It is wrong and we all know how good Pitta is, so in the end it really doesn't affect his draft stock or his talent at all.

It probably will give him some inner motivation in the bowl game and afterwards, though.

Go Cougs!

[hawkwing]

This is an absolute atrocity and just confirms exactly how much damage the BCS has done to all of college football. Our sport will never be the same.