Cam Ward won the Davey O'Brien award for the nation's best QB, being the third Hurricane to garner the country’s oldest and most prestigious QB trophy. He lists his problems regarding Cam Ward risking his draft stock by playing on a horrible field. Tobin proposes the game be moved to Hard Rock Stadium.
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00:00Congratulations to Cam Ward.
00:03He was awarded the Davey O'Brien last night
00:06for the nation's best QB, third hurricane ever to win that
00:10with joining Vinny Testaverde and Gino Toretta.
00:14They also won the Heisman.
00:16They did win the Heisman.
00:17He's not gonna win the Heisman.
00:18No.
00:19I mean, here's an indication
00:21of who's gonna win the Heisman.
00:24When you win the best DB and the best receiver.
00:29It's pretty good.
00:32And, but here's usually the guy
00:35who wins the Maxwell wins it, right?
00:37Yeah.
00:38But Gentry won the Maxwell.
00:43Well, he had a great season too.
00:45Awards all around.
00:46Great crop of players.
00:48Yes, I would say like, yeah.
00:50I mean, kudos to Cam Ward.
00:54And I think it's an incredible story
00:57because it's not like Cam Newton
01:03who started at Florida and then played D2,
01:07then came back to Auburn.
01:09Yeah.
01:10He never, he started in D2 cause that was it.
01:13No, he's like the new, he's like the new guy
01:15like Ed Reed, you can point to.
01:17Like, hey, nobody recruited this guy, you know,
01:20and zero stars and all that type of stuff.
01:22And here we go.
01:23What was that star?
01:24Ed Reed was what, two star?
01:26Two or three.
01:27Yeah.
01:28I mean, Cam had zero stars.
01:30Zero stars.
01:31Yep.
01:32That's crazy.
01:33Kudos to him.
01:34It's a hell of a story.
01:36I wish I could have saw it a little bit more
01:40at the highest level, you know, in the playoffs,
01:43but still excellent season, well-deserved.
01:47You still, what do you think about this?
01:49You still buy that he's going to play in this Pop-Tart Bowl?
01:53Yeah.
01:53He's playing.
01:54He said it, he doesn't lie.
01:57But what if he gets through, like, you know,
01:58I was talking about this with somebody last night.
02:00But why, here's what I don't get.
02:04Sometimes people tell you, and there is nothing about him
02:09that would indicate otherwise.
02:10Yeah.
02:11And yet you're still coming up with reasons why he won't.
02:14Well, I really only have one reason.
02:17And that's because that hell hole
02:20is basically Florida Met life.
02:22And I don't want him to, because I worry for him.
02:25You know, like, here, can you think like an athlete
02:31and a competitor and not like a Tobin?
02:35Look, I get you.
02:36The guy loves to play football.
02:37He loves to compete.
02:38He wants to be able to chuck that thing one more time.
02:42There's nothing wrong with that.
02:43We starting to make it, we starting to make it normal
02:47that, you know, if it's about money,
02:50I don't want to compete at this level.
02:52I'm waiting for the next level.
02:53Okay, but that place is a dump.
02:55I don't want him to play.
02:56He's so above that dump of a field.
02:59Again.
03:00It stinks.
03:01Is he above competing?
03:04What?
03:04No, he's not above competing.
03:05He's not above competing.
03:06Wait, here, here, understand this.
03:11He's not a bosa.
03:13He didn't come from, you know, Ohio State and high acclaim.
03:18This dude had been fighting, clawing and scratching
03:20to play football his whole life.
03:22And now that he gets there, he's going to not play.
03:25But like, it's his makeup.
03:28Like that's who he is.
03:30Oh my goodness.
03:31We are making it normal to do that.
03:33Would you be, would you hold it against him if he did?
03:35No, but I'm just saying, look at him.
03:39It's who he is.
03:41Dude, you had a great group.
03:44I don't, I don't, I've never.
03:45Just, just listen.
03:47That place has been a household.
03:48Deer King blew out his knee.
03:51You had the Wisconsin, both incidents where we got van
03:54ginkgled and the huddled around the heaters, Greg Cooper.
03:59Remember him blowing out his knee on that stupid turf.
04:01They don't take care of it.
04:03It's a dump.
04:04It's like having a, it's like having a race horse race on asphalt.
04:09It's stupid.
04:12All right.
04:12Like, uh, I don't like, uh, silly me.
04:15I just think that competitors love to compete and, and it's hard to explain
04:23that because you think of everything else other than that simple fact, you've
04:27been competing your whole life.
04:28You want to compete.
04:29Some guys do.
04:30Some guys can say, nah, I don't want to do it this time.
04:33Like, uh, I don't that, that part.
04:36I'm never going to understand.
04:38I'm just not like I'm not.
04:43Okay.
04:46I understand that you, you don't like the principle of it.
04:49No, it's not the principle of it.
04:50I'm just saying, these guys are competitors.
04:57Look, the, if, if he wants to go out there and he wants to make his
05:00receivers look good or get some more shine for Xavier to compete, because
05:04that's what he's done his whole life.
05:06Like you, you're, you're shrugging your shoulders to that, but that's like,
05:11that's how it is.
05:12Some of these guys are so intent on competing that the circumstances don't
05:17matter what I just want to win.
05:21I demand the Pop-Tart bowl move.
05:22If they want them to play, they, you know, they one time moved an entire, an
05:27entire card for John Jones because the state had looser drug restrictions.
05:32So they moved her from, from, I think it was, it was Canada.
05:36No, it was, I think it was, um, I don't remember the state it moved
05:39to, but it moved to California because they had looser restrictions.
05:43And so what I'm demanding of the Pop-Tart bowl is you move the game to
05:47hard rock stadium, take it, leave it.
05:50Like it just, like, you get a bigger crowd, one last ride and
05:54Steven Ross grows his own grass.
05:56This is, this is the difference.
05:58We have demands.
05:59This is the difference between an athlete and a, a you.
06:03Okay.
06:04It just is like, who was on a three with Diera King and who was not.
06:10Yeah.
06:10Being lazy.
06:14I just don't like a lot of, a lot of these guys.
06:17When you, when you talk to athletes, they, they will say, first
06:21and foremost, I love competing.
06:24Yeah.
06:24Right.
06:25Poor Kim kitchens is getting punked in his, in his own locker room.
06:28That's funny.
06:29It's still funny.
06:30Still funny.