Mackey No, Camp Yes

Harold Fannin did not get the Mackey Award.  I'm disappointed, I wish I was surprised.  This is a 100% ignorant and wrong decision and it is exactly what we have come to expect.  I could see it if we hadn't played Penn State and A&M and watched them be unable to stop Fannin.  The decision was lazy and wrong.  Yet there it is.

Let us not get lost in outrage though.  Because virtually at the same time, Fannin was named to the first-team Walter Camp All-American team.  The Walter Camp is the oldest All-American team---Camp used to name the team himself--and includes 130-some FBS coaches and SIDs doing the voting.  Fannin is the first BG player to be named to the Camp team and it is a huge honor.

I learned last night that there are 5 All-American teams that stand apart, of which Camp is one of them.  If Fannin makes two more, he will be the first consensus All-American in our program's history.

There were 3 MAC players on the Camp team.  Shaun Dolac, of UB and the MAC Defensive player of the year, and Addison West, an OL from WMU.

So congratulations to Harold.  It was an historic season for him.