This is one of three articles in the Not MY Heisman campaign leading in to Saturday night’s Heisman Trophy ceremony in New York City. We’re down to three finalists with Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, Oklahoma Sooners QB Kyler Murray and Dwayne Haskins of the Ohio State Buckeyes. Every one of them has their flaws. As we know, Tua Tagovailoa does not possess the clutch gene, and Dwayne Haskins is a bad locker room guy. And now it’s up to Kyler Murray.
One thing we love as a college football community is the sport provides an opportunity for youngsters to compete at a high level with a variety of backgrounds no matter how rich or poor the individual may be. Nothing matters except talent on the field.
The best stories come from athletes who come from nothing and use college football to make lives better for themselves and their families. We love a good underdog story. There’s even a song out there where this rapper fella started from the bottom and he is now here. Congrats to him on that.
After every college football matchup, what do we hear from players during the postgame interviews? Dealing with adversity. There seems to be a law that passed where if you win a football game, you absolutely must discuss dealing with adversity.
Dealing with adversity is such bland phrase that means nothing because everybody in the world deals with some sort of adversity every single day. Or do they? Enter in Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray.
Murray entered into this world with a genetic advantage over all of us. His father played quarterback at Texas A&M in the 1980s, and his uncle played in Major League Baseball for years.
Believe it or not, Murray started at quarterback for his high school team. With him starting, the team finished 42-0, won three state championships, and he was named the high school player of the year in Texas. I hear high school pigskin is a pretty big deal in that state.
After backing up eventual No. 1 NFL Draft pick Baker Mayfield for a season, it was Murray’s time to be in the spotlight. A couple months before this football season started, the Oakland Athletics selected him with their top draft choice, ninth overall in the MLB Draft.
Murray said he would play out the college football season before calling it quits and report to spring training in 2019 with Oakland, where he already has a $4.66 million signing bonus.
This guy is already a multimillionaire and thinks, “Ehh, maybe I’ll screw around with this college football thing and win a Heisman.”
His life is far too perfect, and I don’t like it.
Murray is one of the best players in football and baseball for his age group on the planet. That’s incredible. He is probably way cooler than the average person and girls probably adore everything about this man. But where does that leave the rest of us? Murray is talented at everything he does, and I am still searching for one thing I’m even mediocre at 25 years into life.
I’ll admit Murray is the most exciting player to watch in college football this season, but this should be a lesson to everyone. If you’re going to make the decision to have talent in this world, just pick one thing because it makes the rest of us feel bad.
Kyler Murray is Not MY Heisman.
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