A Hec of a debate

Forgive me for linking an Neate article written on another site back to his own site, but since he won't likely do it...

Over at the CIS Blog, Our Glourious Leader does a great job of breaking down the Hec Crighton (outstanding player in CIS football) candidates. The Hec--as all the CIS geeks cool cats refer to it as--is always controversial (among the previously mentioned group of people, anyway) in that it often goes to the player with the best stats rather than the best player period. The best stats are almost always put up by an OUA player, what with the York, Toronto and Waterloo defences to "deal" with each year (it also always goes to the best offensive skill position player, but that's a debate that transcends the CIS, isn't it?).

There is no point going over the same material here as Neate does in the linked article. But, let's just say that the complainers have a point when they call the Hec the "OUA Consolation Award." It's a bit unforgivable that the best team in CIS football over the last near decade, Laval, has yet to have a player win one. So, it says here it should be Benoît Groulx's.

But, Mike Giffin will win it because the voters never learn.