Ding-dong, the witch is dead
Ding-dong, the witch is dead
The House v. NCAA settlement was long overdue. May we never go backwards in college sports again.
The year was 2019, which may as well have been a generation ago. The setting was the Charlotte Convention Center.
On hand for the Bronko Nagurski Trophy banquet were nominees Derrick Brown, J.R Reid, Isaiah Simmons, Antoine Winfield Jr., Chase Young and the hundreds of guests who paid for a dinner table and the chance to mingle ahead of time at the silent auction.
The first two things I remember about that evening:
Getting to go on stage as that year’s FWAA president and announce Young as the winner
Informing Young hours earlier that he had been named a finalist for the Heisman Trophy
That second part probably wasn’t supposed to happen, but Young and his fellow nominees were tied up for much of the 75-minute cocktail reception signing autographs for attendees, and I happened to be right next to the table when the Heisman finalists were announced, so I showed him the announcement on my phone before he heard scuttlebutt from others.
Why were they all up there? In simple matters, because that’s just the way it was.