Thursday, January 12, 2006
THE BLOG POLL ALL-AMERICA TEAM
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Click here to read the details of the team.
Participation was lower than hoped for the Blog Poll All-America team, no doubt the result of its last-second inception and poor promotion. Next year, perhaps, some better organization, planning and trumpeting will help turnout exceed local school board primary levels.
Nevertheless, ballots did come, and thus is their democratic decree:
FIRST TEAM
Offense
QB: Vince Young, Texas
RB: Reggie Bush, Southern Cal
RB: DeAngelo Williams, Memphis
WR: Dwayne Jarrett, Southern Cal
WR: Jeff Samarzija, Notre Dame
TE: Garrett Mills, Tulsa
OL: Jonathan Scott, Texas
OL: Marcus McNeil, Auburn
OL: Taitusi Lutui, Southern Cal
OL: Max Jean-Giles, Georgia
OL: Greg Eslinger, Minnesota
Defense
DL: Elvis Dumervil, Louisville
DL: Matthias Kiwanuka, Boston College
DL: Mario Williams, NC State
DL: Haloti Ngata, Oregon
LB: A.J. Hawk, Ohio State
LB: DeMeco Ryans, Alabama
LB: Paul Posluszny, Penn State
DB: Jimmy Williams, Virginia Tech
DB: Kelly Jennings, Miami
DB: Aaron Gipson, Oregon
DB: Michael Huff, Texas
Special Teams
K: Mason Crosby, Colorado
P: Daniel Sepulveda, Baylor
KR: Ted Ginn Jr., Ohio State
PR: Maurice Drew, UCLA
SECOND TEAM
Offense
QB: Matt Leinart, Southern Cal
RB: LenDale White, Southern Cal
RB: Laurence Maroney, Minnesota
WR: Mike Hass, Oregon State
WR: Sidney Rice, South Carolina
TE: Marcedes Lewis, UCLA
OL: D'Brickashaw Ferguson, Virginia
OL: Eric Winston, Miami
OL: Dan Mozes, West Virginia
OL: Mark Setterstrom, Minnesota
OL: Will Allen, Texas
Defense
DL: Darryl Tapp, Virginia Tech
DL: Mark Anderson, Alabama
DL: Brodrick Bunkley, Florida State
DL: Rodrique Wright, Texas
LB: Chad Greenway, Iowa
LB: D'Qwell Jackson, Maryland
LB: Dale Robinson, Arizona State
DB: Alan Zemaitis, Penn State
DB: Dwayne Slay, Texas Tech
DB: Tom Zbikowski, Notre Dame
DB: Darnell Bing, Southern Cal
Special Teams
K: Alexis Serna, Oregon State
P: John Torp, Colorado
KR: Cory Rogers, TCU
PR: Willie Reid, Florida State
Unanimous: Only two players were first team on every ballot - A.J. Hawk and Reggie Bush. The only other player to appear on every ballot was Michael Huff.
Most Obscure Vote: SMQ could be accused of obscurity for his homerism selection of Southern Miss linebacker Kevis Coley, but Coley was C-USA defensive player of the year, so the pick is not that obscure. Many players received only one vote, a couple of whom SMQ had never heard of (like Corey McKeon, Nick Graham and Jimmy Contrell...but subsequent stat checks revealed pretty good numbers for these gentlemen, especially NCAA tackle leader Contrell). If we're talking about obscure homerism, though, nothing can top Boi From Toy's nomination of freshman Trojan linebacker Brian Cushing, who collected a whopping 14 solo tackles, three batted passes and zero sacks, interceptions or solo tackles for loss. But then, blind, shameless, hilariously biased submissions are par for the course with Boi this postseason.
More Numbers: All together, voters nominated more than 130 different players, almost half of which appeared on only one ballot. Every conference was represented by at least one vote, with the exception of the Sun Belt. The position with the most nominations was defensive back, with 22, followed by offensive line (21) and defensive line (19). Voters showed the least creativity when it came to quarterback, nominating all of three players: Young, Leinart and Brady Quinn.
By conference, votes broke down like this:PAC Ten: 30Note that 24 of BFT's 30 players hail from PAC Ten schools. So there you are.
SEC: 22
ACC: 20
Big Ten: 18
Big XII: 18
Conference USA: 5
Big East: 4
WAC: 4
MAC: 1
Mountain West: 1
Thanks for everyone who voted, and hopefully this can be better in the future.
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Comments:
If I recall correctly, we were only supposed to vote for players who we'd seen...and, well, I mostly watched Pac Ten games, being on the left coast!
Oh, and P.S. I still believe USC was the better team--and 9 times out of 10 would have made that first down and run out the clock.
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Oh, and P.S. I still believe USC was the better team--and 9 times out of 10 would have made that first down and run out the clock.
