Stephon Robertson Loses Buchanan, But Wins More Prestigious Award
The winner of the 2013 Buck Buchanan Award was announced today. Unfortunately, JMU’s own Stephon Robertson did not win and had to settle for second place. The award instead was given to Montana State defensive end Brad Daly. Daly had a heck of a year, sharing the defensive player of the year for the Big Sky with Cal Poly’s Sullivan Grosz. Still his selection irked plenty of JMU fans who thought Stephon was more far deserving of the honor.
Robertson not winning the Buchanan does nothing to take away from the outstanding season (and career) he had. While they are something fans get excited about, these post season awards are largely pointless away. All of the awards except one that is. The Totally Best Defender in Entire U.S.A. is the one college football season that definitely proves who the best defensive player in football is. The winner is selected by an esteemed panel of experts consisting solely of me and Todd. And this year the 2013 Totally Best Defender in Entire U.S.A. goes to none other than JMU’s Stephon Robertson. Rules dictate that the voting results remain private, but we can say that Robertson totally crushed Daly. Congratulations Stephon on this very prestigious honor.
It’s funny… I have been really down on the CAA for being nowhere near as good as it used to be.
Then I look at the current FCS playoff Final 4: 2 CAA teams, one unseeded and one seeded 7th. Got crappy seeds and still beat out the other conferences.
Agreed. I believe I even wrote a post prior to the season stating that the CAA was no longer worthy of being called the “SEC of the FCS” and hypothesized that there were no contenders in the league. Shows what I know.