We’ll find out later today if Scott Valentas becomes a finalist for the Bushnell Cup/Defensive Player of the Year award.
Columbia Football hasn’t had a Bushnell winner since 1983 & no Lion has even been named a finalist since the league began naming finalists in 2010.
To be clear: since 2010, there have been 22 Bushnell Cup winners and 44 finalists. Not ONE of them has been a Columbia Lion. Every other Ivy school has had a winner, let alone a finalist.
To be clear: since 2010, there have been 22 Bushnell Cup winners and 44 finalists. Not ONE of them has been a Columbia Lion. Every other Ivy school has had a winner, let alone a finalist.
Valentas can make significant history for the program today.
... and he really deserves it.
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DIDN’T GET IT!
The HYP bias at work once more; Valentas had a better year than either the Harvard DL or the Princeton LB.
Valentas is a great player. Coaches can’t vote for their own player. I doubt Murphy voted for anyone from Princeton, given how long his loss in 2021 to Princeton has occupied his mind. And I doubt generally any of the 5 non HYP coaches cast votes based on pro HYP bias. The coaches see these players a lot on tape and once live.
A Princeton LB won last year and is a finalist this year.No way is Johnson as good as Valentas IMHO having seen Princeton play a few times. Valentas takes over games; that cannot be said either for the Harvard DL or the Princeton LB. In short, this is a massive injustice.
What does last year have to do with it? Valentas may well have deserved to be a finalist, and the coaches' collective judgment is subject to disagreement. But doubtful there is some bias afoot.
Valentas is a fantastic player. But highly doubt there is any HYP bias. One could argue that Heimlicher from Penn deserved to be a Bushnell finalist. He is a finalist for the FCS defensive player of the year.
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