A Sea Of Red

Its not the Heisman but still a pretty big deal in I-AA/FCS circles:

Walter Payton Award Watch List

Ramses Barden, WR, Cal Poly, 6-5, 230, Senior
Nathan Brown, QB, Central Arkansas, 6-2, 209, Senior
Liam Coen, QB, Massachusetts, 6-2, 220, Senior
Herb Donaldson, RB, Western Illinois, 5-11, 225, Senior
Armanti Edwards, QB, Appalachian State, 6-0, 185, Junior
Terrell Hudgins, WR, Elon, 6-3, 235, Junior
Rashad Jennings, RB, Liberty, 6-1, 230, Senior
Rodney Landers, QB, James Madison, 6-1, 220, Senior
Corey Lewis, RB, Northern Iowa, 6-0, 197, Senior
Mike McLeod, RB, Yale, 5-11, 200, Senior
Matt Nicholls, QB, Eastern Washington, 6-2, 220, Junior
Dominic Randolph, QB, Holy Cross, 6-3, 223, Senior
Andre Roberts, WR, The Citadel, 5-11, 175
Tyler Roehl, RB, North Dakota State, 5-10, 232, Senior
Jordan Scott, RB, Colgate, 5-11, 205, Senior
Javarris Williams, RB, Tennessee State, 5-11, 215, Senior

Seeing Rashad's name on the list and not more familiar names like Rhett Bomar & Ryan Perrilloiux is what is most impressive.

Lang had a small article about that today, but it didn't make the online version of the fishwrap.

Yeah it did ...

NewsAdvance wrote:LU Notebook: Jennings up for Walter Payton Award

By Chris Lang
Published: August 29, 2008

For the first time in Liberty football history, the Flames have a player on the watch list for the Walter Payton Award, FCS football’s equivalent of the Heisman Trophy.
Tailback Rashad Jennings, who already has been named to The Sports Network’s preseason All-American team, is one of 16 players on the preseason watch list.
“It feels good, but at the same time, you can’t pay any attention to it,” Jennings said. “Because you can’t control that. All you can control is playing hard every play, every game.”

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Had I written in on my laptop, I could have posted it from here. Alas I wrote it at the office, and I won't be going in there until late this afternoon (desk shift tonight). I'll post it later ...

Actually, Jim, it was on the site, just not on the front page of stories. It was under college sports:

http://www.newsadvance.com/lna/sports/c ... ward/7853/