This isn’t a big surprise, though Vince Young also deserved to win. Bush was the most exciting player, and we know that the Heisman Trophy is more about hype than anything else.
As usual,the national media is going a little overboard in singing Bush’s praise. Yes, he’s very talented and he’s a playmaker, but I don’t think you can put him in the same category as other college great like Barry Sanders, Herchel Walker and Bo Jackson. Those guys literally carried their teams. Bush, on the other hand, is part of the USC highlight team, running through gaping holes in the Pac-10 conference where sometimes it seems like they outlawed physical defense. I’d like to see what he can do in a tougher conference like the Big Ten or the SEC.
Well, we’ll get the chance to see him against a very tough Texas defense in the Rose Bowl, and we’ll see next year how he fares in the NFL. At 6-0, 200 pounds, we’ll see if he can take a pounding.
