{"id":301945,"date":"2025-11-19T21:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/301945\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T21:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:56:09","slug":"urban-meyer-claims-heisman-trophy-ceremony-should-invite-10-players-every-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/301945\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Meyer claims Heisman Trophy ceremony should invite 10 players every year"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no individual honor in college football more prestigious than the Heisman Trophy. With a massive ceremony in New York, it\u2019s become a special night for the finalists. Now, former head coach Urban Meyer<\/a> would like to see the field of invited players expanded to 10 players. <\/p>\n

The Heisman ceremony came up during a recent episode of The Triple Option. There, they were discussing Jacob Rodriguez<\/a>, the linebacker from Texas Tech<\/a> who has started to get some Heisman buzz, but is still considered a long shot to even be invited for the ceremony in New York. <\/p>\n

Rodriguez has been put into games on the offensive side of the ball by Texas Tech, even allowing him to score a rushing touchdown. That\u2019s something that\u2019s helped highlight him in his case for the Heisman. It\u2019s also something relatively standard, according to Meyer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve done to the point where I remember,\u201d Urban Meyer said<\/a>. \u201cI think it was JT [Barrett]<\/a>, that we were playing a team that I knew we were going to beat bad. I said to the coordinator, \u2018Throw it every down.\u2019 He had like five touchdowns in the first half and one was on the one-yard line. I\u2019m listening to the headset. I said, \u2018No. I told you to throw the ball.\u2019 Why am I doing that? Because I think it\u2019s an obligation of the coach to fight for his players. So, I love that. Would you expect anything less from that guy? Coach [Joey] McGuire<\/a>, that guy\u2019s tremendous. He\u2019s a former high school coach, which tells you how he cares about his players. I love that guy, I love that program. I think they\u2019re doing great.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the latest odds to win the Heisman, Rodriguez is getting the ninth-best odds<\/a> to win the award. If he were to finish ninth in voting, that\u2019s a phenomenal season, particularly for a defensive player. However, it\u2019s also not going to be good enough for him to get invited to the ceremony. So, with that in mind, Meyer suggested inviting 10 finalists. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf I was in charge of the Heisman,\u201d Meyer said. \u201cI\u2019d invite 10 people every year. The 10 top players\u2026 Go get another sponsor\u2026 I\u2019d send all 10. It\u2019s too good of an experience. I\u2019ve been there, probably, seven, eight times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mark Ingram pushed back slightly, pointing out that it\u2019s expensive to invite players to New York. However, Urban Meyer didn\u2019t seem overly concerned about the cost, emphasizing the honor and the experience over that. <\/p>\n

Ultimately, Rodriguez probably isn\u2019t winning the Heisman as a defensive player. A year ago, Travis Hunter<\/a> won the award, but as a two-way player. A purely defensive player hasn\u2019t won it since Charles Woodson<\/a> in 1997. Even then, he was noted for his special teams production. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is no individual honor in college football more prestigious than the Heisman Trophy. With a massive ceremony…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99,18421],"class_list":{"0":"post-301945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-urban-meyer-82-ss-john-paul"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}