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Tebow brings in the votes again; Shannon previews Miami’s QBs
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| Florida quarterback Tim Tebow arrives at the ESPY Awards on Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was named Best Male College Athlete at the ceremony. ASSOCIATED PRESS |
Florida quarterback named Best Male College Athlete.
From staff and wire reports
Less than two months away from the start of a new
season, Florida quarterback Tim Tebow was still
garnering awards for his last performance.
The Heisman Trophy
winner was named Best Male College Athlete on Wednesday evening at the ESPY Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. Tebow beat University of North Carolina basketball star Tyler Hansbrough and Kanasas State hoops star and second
overall NBA pick Michael Beasley for the honor,
which was determined by
fan voting.
“It is an honor to be at an event with many of the people I’ve grown up watching and respecting,” Tebow said. “I accept this award on behalf of my coaches and teammates. The fact that this award is based on voting makes it all the more special. I’ve always appreciated the support I’ve received from the Gator Nation.”
The quarterback followed in the footsteps of another Gators star with a national title ring and Heisman Trophy — Danny Wuerffel. The star of the 1996 national championship season was named Best Male College Football Player in 1997.
Tebow’s record sophomore year was only overshadowed by the awards season that followed. Aside from becoming the first sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy, he took home the Maxwell Award and the Southeastern Conference Male Athlete of the Year honor among others.
Hurricanes set to use two-QB system
TAMPA — When choosing among quarterbacks Robert Marve, Jacory Harris and Cannon Smith, Miami coach Randy Shannon found there was only one solution that made sense.
He’ll play at least two of them.
Shannon still hasn’t selected a starter, but announced Thursday that he’ll use multiple quarterbacks this season. But he’s not revealing which two have the inside track on field time.
The Hurricanes don’t have a single quarterback on the roster with any college snaps on their resume. Marve is a redshirt freshman, Harris a true freshman, and both were Florida high school record-setters before enrolling at Miami. Smith is in his first year at Miami as well.
“Whichever quarterback that we name, we’re going to play the other one,” Shannon said at the Florida Sports Writers Association College Football Media Days, again without specifying any of the quarterbacks by name and therefore not tipping his hand. “We need depth at every position on the field and that’s the one position that we don’t have depth at because they’re young. They’re good quarterbacks, but they’re young.”
Shannon said it won’t be a platoon situation. The way he envisions it, one person will emerge as the clear starter, and another will play at certain times to get a feel for game action — in case that person gets called upon for a bigger role, for injury or any other reason.
Either way, it’s a new era for “Quarterback U.” The school that produced Vinny Testaverde, Bernie Kosar, Gino Torretta, Jim Kelly, Steve Walsh and Craig Erickson is starting over, at least at the game’s marquee position.
Spurrier says he’s not finished yet
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Steve Spurrier cleared up several items Thursday: He’s not leaving South Carolina, he’s not ceding his role as the Gamecocks’ chief strategist and he thinks he’s got a special, albeit untested, talent in junior quarterback Tommy Beecher.
“I will oversee all the playcalling. I’m still the offensive coordinator,” Spurrier said. “In fact, I plan to spend more time with the quarterbacks and the offense this year than maybe I have in three years.”
Spurrier touched on a variety of topics with the Gamecocks two weeks from reporting for fall camp and six weeks from the opener with North Carolina State.
Among them was the notion that growing frustration and continued stumbles would send Spurrier running from the rebuilding project he accepted after the
2004 season.
Spurrier laughed off the idea that turning the Gamecocks into Southeastern Conference contenders would be
anything but a gradual, step-by-step process. “Did you think there was a team here ready to win the SEC?” he said.
The Gamecocks best recruiting class under Spurrier came in 2007, a group considered one of the country’s 10 best by many analysts. Those
players, Spurrier says, are just ready to flourish.
And Spurrier plans to stick around to see how they fare.
“Everybody talks about how, ’This guy’s in his 60s. He’s going to walk away from this thing,’ “ said Spurrier, 63. “I feel just as good as I did when I was in my 40s.”
“I’m not trying to brag, but I shot the same number in Lake Tahoe in 1990 as I shot last Sunday,” Spurrier said of his participation in last week’s celebrity golf tournament. “Physically, I’m the same as I was in 1990 right before I coached my first year at Florida. ... That age thing’s a funny thing. But I feel a good
five more years easy. I
really do. I don’t know
what else I’d do.”
season, Florida quarterback Tim Tebow was still
garnering awards for his last performance.
The Heisman Trophy
winner was named Best Male College Athlete on Wednesday evening at the ESPY Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. Tebow beat University of North Carolina basketball star Tyler Hansbrough and Kanasas State hoops star and second
overall NBA pick Michael Beasley for the honor,
which was determined by
fan voting.
“It is an honor to be at an event with many of the people I’ve grown up watching and respecting,” Tebow said. “I accept this award on behalf of my coaches and teammates. The fact that this award is based on voting makes it all the more special. I’ve always appreciated the support I’ve received from the Gator Nation.”
The quarterback followed in the footsteps of another Gators star with a national title ring and Heisman Trophy — Danny Wuerffel. The star of the 1996 national championship season was named Best Male College Football Player in 1997.
Tebow’s record sophomore year was only overshadowed by the awards season that followed. Aside from becoming the first sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy, he took home the Maxwell Award and the Southeastern Conference Male Athlete of the Year honor among others.
Hurricanes set to use two-QB system
TAMPA — When choosing among quarterbacks Robert Marve, Jacory Harris and Cannon Smith, Miami coach Randy Shannon found there was only one solution that made sense.
He’ll play at least two of them.
Shannon still hasn’t selected a starter, but announced Thursday that he’ll use multiple quarterbacks this season. But he’s not revealing which two have the inside track on field time.
The Hurricanes don’t have a single quarterback on the roster with any college snaps on their resume. Marve is a redshirt freshman, Harris a true freshman, and both were Florida high school record-setters before enrolling at Miami. Smith is in his first year at Miami as well.
“Whichever quarterback that we name, we’re going to play the other one,” Shannon said at the Florida Sports Writers Association College Football Media Days, again without specifying any of the quarterbacks by name and therefore not tipping his hand. “We need depth at every position on the field and that’s the one position that we don’t have depth at because they’re young. They’re good quarterbacks, but they’re young.”
Shannon said it won’t be a platoon situation. The way he envisions it, one person will emerge as the clear starter, and another will play at certain times to get a feel for game action — in case that person gets called upon for a bigger role, for injury or any other reason.
Either way, it’s a new era for “Quarterback U.” The school that produced Vinny Testaverde, Bernie Kosar, Gino Torretta, Jim Kelly, Steve Walsh and Craig Erickson is starting over, at least at the game’s marquee position.
Spurrier says he’s not finished yet
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Steve Spurrier cleared up several items Thursday: He’s not leaving South Carolina, he’s not ceding his role as the Gamecocks’ chief strategist and he thinks he’s got a special, albeit untested, talent in junior quarterback Tommy Beecher.
“I will oversee all the playcalling. I’m still the offensive coordinator,” Spurrier said. “In fact, I plan to spend more time with the quarterbacks and the offense this year than maybe I have in three years.”
Spurrier touched on a variety of topics with the Gamecocks two weeks from reporting for fall camp and six weeks from the opener with North Carolina State.
Among them was the notion that growing frustration and continued stumbles would send Spurrier running from the rebuilding project he accepted after the
2004 season.
Spurrier laughed off the idea that turning the Gamecocks into Southeastern Conference contenders would be
anything but a gradual, step-by-step process. “Did you think there was a team here ready to win the SEC?” he said.
The Gamecocks best recruiting class under Spurrier came in 2007, a group considered one of the country’s 10 best by many analysts. Those
players, Spurrier says, are just ready to flourish.
And Spurrier plans to stick around to see how they fare.
“Everybody talks about how, ’This guy’s in his 60s. He’s going to walk away from this thing,’ “ said Spurrier, 63. “I feel just as good as I did when I was in my 40s.”
“I’m not trying to brag, but I shot the same number in Lake Tahoe in 1990 as I shot last Sunday,” Spurrier said of his participation in last week’s celebrity golf tournament. “Physically, I’m the same as I was in 1990 right before I coached my first year at Florida. ... That age thing’s a funny thing. But I feel a good
five more years easy. I
really do. I don’t know
what else I’d do.”
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