[BoondockSaint]

The fact Jude didn’t win, and did not receive a single vote, pretty much made me quit even giving a rats a$$ about the award. 

It’s voted on by guys that:

1. Don’t know a damn thing about football
2. Do not have the opportunity to see even half of the nominees play
3.  Their main voting point is if UK offered the kid a scholly or not.

I think James Quick won that year.
James Quick went to Louisville not UK. James Quick is still playing football for a living with the Calgary stampeders in Canada. I know a little about football and he was a DUDE against the top competition in hs. James Quick had 57 touchdown catches against 6a and national schedule.  When you throw out homer posts with absolutes in them you lose credibility.

Jude still more than deserved the award.  I give no sh!ts about your thoughts on my credibility.  Really, I could care less. 

No one player meant more to his team that year than Jude.  Quick could’ve sat out the entire year and Trinity would’ve still rolled on to a 6A title and perhaps more.  

The fact is this, at that time pencil pushers that wouldn’t know the difference between a spread offense and the veer system called the shots.  More often than not the players with the bigger college offers were the only ones that got ink, especially if the kid signed with UK, and lots of times they were wrong.