I was going to keep going on my recaps but after seeing the post-season awards come in I got really irritated, really quick. The Tigers not getting any players on the first team is a pure and simple rip off. Here’s the guys I think got screwed the most in the C-USA post-season awards.

1. Martin Hankins–Martin averaged over 290 yards a game passing in the games he played. Had he played all 12 games he would have passed for over 3500 yards. But you saw all the stats I reeled off earlier this week. His performance was the difference in the Tigers finishing 7-5 instead of another year at the bottom of C-USA. The last six games of the season were not only remarkable but down right OUTSTANDING. Sorry for shouting but this is pretty damn insulting to me. For Martin not to be named as one of the top 3 QB’s in C-USA goes to show you that media members aren’t as smart as they think they are.

2. Carlos Singleton–Carlos is a game changer. His presence on the field changes defenses and embarrasses DBs. There are CB’s still thinking about the nightmare they had trying to cover all six foot eight of him. I dare any media member to name six WR’s better than Carlos in this league.

3. Duke Calhoun–He’s the one they got closest to right. Duke made 2nd team. Apparantly his 850 while splitting snaps isn’t impressive enough to impress hack beat writes in Houston and the other C-USA papers who ignore the league until the end of the year.

4. Tommy West–Yes, I said Tommy West. Coach West revitalized this team to a 7-5 record after starting 2-4. The job he and his staff did taking a program that was 4-14 over 2006 and 2007 to finish 5-1 was nothing short of amazing. These same voters voted the Tigers to finish at BEST 4th in the East as ninth overall in the league. They finished one game out of first in the league. He also did it with 4 LB’s out for the season and 7 new coaches on staff. When Tommy made turned the Tigers around in 2003 he was shunned by the C-USA media and they did it again. Can you name one team that made that much of a turnaround in this league? Please, go ahead, try. You can’t do it because it wasn’t done. I’ve heard they won the conference so that’s why he won it argument. That’s male bovine feces. Was Cal Coach of the Year the last two seasons in basketball? No. But he won the conference on the way to winning 31 of 32 conference games over a two season stretch. Did O’Leary come close to that type of accomplishment?

The media members of C-USA appartantly are as smart as the space their papers give to most of the C-USA schools. Outside of us, Southern Miss and East Carolina the newspapers in home cities of C-USA bury them on the back pages. So I guess it should be expected that they vote blindly and stupidly.