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SbOrOiNaEnR
10/26/2010, 09:25 PM
Dear Brain Trust:

I heard a local media story today saying Landry is a semifinalist for the Davey O'Brien National Quarterback award. The reporter mentioned that previous OU players to win include:

http://upperdeckblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/sambradford1.jpg

Sam Bradford (2008)


http://www.daveyobrien.org/adminnm/articlefiles/58-white-2003-04.jpg

Jason White (2003, 2004)

http://daveyobrien.org/adminnm/articlefiles/35-Sims.jpg

and (curiously) Billy Sims (1978).

So if you've made it this far, you might be thinking "Now wait a minute, SbOrOiNaEnR...why does Billy Sims have a Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award???"

'Tis where the plot thickens. From 1978-1980, the award was (per the award's website (http://www.daveyobrien.org/adminnm/templates/aboutus.asp?articleid=24&zoneid=1))...


...to be presented annually to the most outstanding player in the Southwest Conference.

So after a little geography and history, and reaching the conclusion that this:

http://billsportsmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/big_12_segment3.gif

Does not equal this:

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/sportatorium/Southwest%20Conference.png

I am left feeling like this:

http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/blahdocs/uploads//wtf_panda_2050.jpg

So in conclusion, can any old-timers on the board offer a definitive answer (or at the very least, clues) as to why Big Eight legend Billy Sims has an award for the SWC's most outstanding player?

(OU's General State of Awesome and Longtime Pwnage of the SWC aside, of course)
Cornfed
10/26/2010, 09:37 PM
Maybe because he had so man y yards on SWC teams ?????
stoops the eternal pimp
10/26/2010, 09:39 PM
not the SWC, football teams from the southwest Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico
StoopTroup
10/26/2010, 09:40 PM
BOOMER ! ! !

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SbOrOiNaEnR
10/26/2010, 09:46 PM
not the SWC, football teams from the southwest Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico

Seriously? Tell me more.
StoopTroup
10/26/2010, 09:51 PM
I thought that Josh won that when Weinke won the Heisman...I guess I had that wrong.

Maybe it was the Maxwell.
stoops the eternal pimp
10/26/2010, 09:51 PM
I just read the wiki and they have it wrong...

It was a regional award, the O'Brien Memorial Trophy...O'Brien had just died of cancer when the award was started..

I don't know anything else..


Sims was the only non SWC player to win it in that time...Im pretty sure Mike Singletary won it once, maybe twice
StoopTroup
10/26/2010, 09:53 PM
Nope...Drew Brees won in 2000

http://www.maxwellfootballclub.org/maxwell-award
StoopTroup
10/26/2010, 09:55 PM
Found it.

Josh won the Walter Camp.

http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards/
stoops the eternal pimp
10/26/2010, 09:57 PM
Josh won the WC i believe
stoops the eternal pimp
10/26/2010, 09:57 PM
nevermind!
SbOrOiNaEnR
10/26/2010, 09:57 PM
I just read the wiki and they have it wrong...

It was a regional award, the O'Brien Memorial Trophy...O'Brien had just died of cancer when the award was started..

I don't know anything else..


Sims was the only non SWC player to win it in that time...Im pretty sure Mike Singletary won it once, maybe twice

He did win it twice. Earl Campbell won it the year before. But Baylor and Texas held the misinformation up...Sims and OU were the wild cards.

So in that case, the O'Brien Award's website is wrong too.

I did a little Googling and it looks like you're right. A few other pre-QB-only write-ups had the 5-state regional award explanation, too.