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With Leinhart staying next season, the focus will still exist on him and I'm sure he will do the same as he did this year(stats wise). I was just hoping he would go, and maybe it would give Omar some more exposure, for his JR year and possible Heisman run for his SR year... More time and exposure would help...

thoughts?

Don't worry about Omar...He's going to get plenty of hype. He is already being talked about as a Heisman candidate. Look at all that talent at USC, but it still didn't take away from Leinart. The more talent the better. Wins are better than awards anyway.

BelieveNBG wrote: Wins are better than awards anyway.

I'll drink to that!

Right, let's win a MAC Championship. We can do that.

It will be tough for Leinhart to win again. The voters are going to expect more out of him now. That being said he could probably hand the ball off all season and still end up in the top 5 because of his name. I think it is a hard award to win twice because it's difficult to be America's pretty boy two years in a row, while still putting up the big #'s.

I agree, I mean look at White, he was a contender this year and wasn't nearly as good as he was last year. Omar still has a chance to be a contender, and when we pull the rug out from Wisconsin out Boise, that will show everyone he's the real deal.

kdog27 wrote:It will be tough for Leinhart to win again. The voters are going to expect more out of him now. That being said he could probably hand the ball off all season and still end up in the top 5 because of his name.

but if he hands it off TOO much, Reggie Bush runs away with it. (though you're probably right about the Top 5 thing.) And as long as neither of those two or Adrian Peterson break a bone or wind up in a Turkish prison, the rest of the nation is likely competing for two spots out of five in NYC anyway.

Think of it this way. Leinart staying and stealing Omar's Heisman thunder in '05 might make Omar decide to stay his Senior year.