Hopefully this will get as much traffic as 610 really does.
University of Houston quarterback Case Keenum threw for a million-bajillion yards last year, his team won ten games, and he's returning for his senior season in 2010. I'm kind of glossing over all of his accomplishments, because they've all been repeated to the point where we all know them by heart. Really, there's no point in mentioning that Keenum racked up 5,671 passing yards and 44 passing touchdowns, or that he became the second player ever to throw for 5000+ yards in consecutive seasons.
Objectively, there's no reason to put anybody ahead of Keenum in any sort of system of ranking quarterbacks for the upcoming season. I mean, maybe Kellen Moore of Boise State, based on his team having a better record. So when The Sporting News came out with its pre-season All-American teams recently, I was waiting anxiously to see if Keenum got a 1 or a 2 in front of his name.
Whatcha got, TSN?
Oh. Oh dear. Third team? You named... Ryan Mallett your first team All-American QB?
Let's see, how do I put this delicately? Keenum threw for over 2,000 more yards than Mallett did on the season. Are you aware of this? You can't just argue the competition factor, either, because in two games against common opponents, Keenum out-threw Mallett by 446 yards. So let's see, Keenum +2,044 passing yards, Keenum +187 rushing yards, Keenum +16 total TD, Keenum +14.5% completion percentage, Keenum +2 team wins... do you want to reconsider that choice?
Nope, you're sticking with Mallett. Wow. I'm blown away.
How does Keenum even respond to this? It would be as if Goodfellas had lost the Oscar for best picture to Dances With Wolves. (Wait a second... ) If you're Keenum/Goodfellas in this scenario, can you say, "It's just an honor to be nominated" with a straight face?
If this insanity carries over any further, next thing you know, Dave Campbell will be naming Jerrod Johnson the first team All-Texas QB. Wait a second...
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Case Keenum
Maybe it has something to do with the 6 INT’s thrown against Air Force in their bowl game? I don’t know but some stats stick in your mind like that. Especially when Kellen Moore threw 3 INT’s all season. I’m assuming Mallett gets the #1 because he plays that “tough SEC schedule” that we hear so much about, and he looks like a big strong NFL QB.
HOUSTON TO THE MWC!
by Snipes25 on Jun 25, 2010 9:42 AM CDT reply actions
Keenum specifically, and UH as a whole
crapped the bed against Air Force. There’s no sugarcoating it. It doesn’t erase an entire season of utter dominance. Keenum’s season per-game averages look about like Mallet’s best games. Honestly, I think Case put up numbers that were too much better than everybody else’s, to the point where nobody was able to wrap their minds about it any more.
126 more passing yards per game than Mallet. For every seven passes each threw, Case completed one more than Mallet.
I’m not even arguing the Kellen Moore thing. I have no problem with putting Moore ahead of Case, even though I don’t agree with it. But Mallet ahead of both? That’s just wrong-headed wrongness.
by Dustin Rensink on Jun 26, 2010 8:19 PM CDT up reply actions
Something you have to get used to
As a BSU fan, I have to realize that things sometimes just don’t seem to be right no matter what. You, as a Houston fan will also have to learn to deal with the fact that no matter how good your team is, they just aren’t as good as the “big boys”. That also includes the players….I mean if they didn’t go to the SEC they can’t be any good …can they? I would also rate keenum-1 moore-2. It is close, But I would give the preseason nod to Case.
I also vote bring Houston to the MWC, they would be a great addition.
I believe all Viking fans must be masochistic!!
by BSUvikFAN on Jun 26, 2010 1:15 PM CDT reply actions
I get the pro-big school bias.
UH has been suffering from it ever since the SWC broke up, and we got stuck in C-USA while our conference rivals went to the Big XII. But you’d think that in a world where the Boises and Hawaiis and Utahs and BYUs and TCUs of the world have proven that small conference teams can play with the big boys (and even Houston, in its own right, which beat Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and Miss State last year), the media could pull its collective head out of its behind, and stop this “we’re not going to give first-team all-American to a QB from a small school, no matter what” thinking. It’s stupid, and everybody with half a brain knows it.
by Dustin Rensink on Jun 26, 2010 8:23 PM CDT up reply actions
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