This was probably a canned message, and they probably didn’t look at any of the facts presented.

You see they use “w” which stands for 笑う (warau, “to laugh”). I’ve also seen ハハハ for hahaha. Similar to our lol.

The selection committee evaluates each candidate based on> their perception of his quarterback skills, athletic ability, academics, reputation, etc.

Their perception of Ponder is based on their perception of FSU, which isn’t good. That’s an artificat of the Nepotism Era. These “elite journalists and sportswritiers” kept rankeing us as a preseason top 10 team. It took them years to catch on to what many Noles fans knew by 2002— we had serious coaching and leadership issues that were keeping us from being a legitimate top 10 team.. Every year these “experts” would rank us high, and every year we would prove them to be the lazy, uninformed, go-along-with-the-hype and incorrect hacks that they were. They finally got the lesson, and the pendulum has swung the other way against us.

The reaction we’re seeing now is an artifact of our performance during the Nepotism Era, and their percetion of the ACC, compounded by the academic scandal.

In other words, to the extent they are even looking at stats, they are filtering those through a very subjective lens.

And all of us, but especially Christian, have Bobby Bowden to thank for that. The man has hurt and is hurting careers.

I known you’re upset about the injustice of the selection. But don’’t expect these media elites to self-report on ESPN or other outlets regarding their bias or the unfairness of excluding Ponder from the list.

In a perfect world, when Ponder is the top college QB next year and they try to name him to the O’Brien list, he would tell the world how silly, superficial and worthless the award is. But he has too much class.

I would have put that in your response – but otherwise excellent

If a set of “elite journalists, broadcasters, commentators and former winners” can not see that Ponder is at least deserving to be one of the 15 best qb’s in the nation then I for one consider your award to be fraudulent and useless.

I was at the live taping of the Bobby Bowden Call in show Thursday night, one of the questions posed to Bobby was " Are you surprised that your star QB and team captain was not named as a Davey O’Brien finalist?" His answer was roughly… “No, look at our record…we haven’t won enough games.” Not only was this answer surprising to me, but the way he answered it was surprising to me. Not a care in the world.

Obviously, he does not care about the careers of his players. I have been slow to jump on the “Bobby has to go” train ,but after seeing this I am now on it. It hurts me to say that…but I got it out.

It’s also surprising to me after reading the above response from the committee on how they evaluate the players. No where on there is team record a measurable. I understand that it’s often implied but there is no excuse for this “elite” committee to leave Ponder off the list. Especially considering Jake Locker is on the list…

Sorry for rambling.

he in fact means “Lazy Journalists that get all their information from Sportscenter.”

This is why I think you’ve e-mailed the wrong people. The “Elite Journalists” at ESPN need to be convinced that Ponder was snubbed from this award before anyone else in the country will listen.

Of course Ponder has played as well as anybody and deserves to be on the short list. But …

I think the lack of national exposure (wasn’t Ga Tech the last nationally televised game?) plus the Bowden/Fisher/Andrews/Amato circus act and the resulting blackout fiasco have distracted the national media from noticing Ponder’s excellent play.

For example, Ga Tech was one of Ponder’s better games. Yet, the focus during that game was on Bowden and the attempted blackout. As far as the typical journalist is concerned, Ponder’s play was lost among all the craziness leading up to that game.

Not throughout the entire game; was simply listing distractions.