Should PRO sports awards be given after the championship games are over?

mkasad23 · 01-17-10, 05:04 AM

theres 2 mvps one for season and one for championship game

JohnAnthony · 01-17-10, 05:11 AM

is the emphasis here on the word AFTER..?

Shortstop · 01-17-10, 05:24 AM

I've always believed that the Heisman Trophy should be awarded AFTER all the Bowl Games have been played.

Shortstop · 01-17-10, 05:26 AM

To answer your question General, YES.

Glitch · 01-17-10, 06:53 AM

yes. but they shouldnt forget about what happened during the whole long season

Jaug · 01-17-10, 07:03 AM

I think the player who keeps a high level throughout a season should be rewarded with MVP.

Reload · 01-17-10, 07:33 AM

Makes sense to me. I don't feel good players on non-playoff teams should be forgotten about, but it would be best to wait for the playoffs to finish. No sense jinxing someone with an MVP on a great regular season and have them mail it in come post-season.

slacker00 · 01-17-10, 08:01 AM

Anyone who takes individual awards for team sports too seriously needs to get a life. It's just newpaper column filler.

Mr KLC · 01-17-10, 08:27 AM

Outstanding players should be done at the end of the regular season. MVP should be after the entire season.

Busterflywheel · 01-17-10, 09:02 AM

Originally posted by Glitch

yes. but they shouldnt forget about what happened during the whole long season

This is the reason they dont wait until after season. Then Heisman ends up with the hot hand during one game bowl season.

sprasad03 · 01-17-10, 09:22 AM

I think they got it right

Z_Wipf · 01-17-10, 10:00 AM

The problem is if you wait until after the Playoffs then the guys who were lucky enough to have a good team get the attention (Kobe) and the guys who did amazing as a player but had a bad team the whole season (Wade, Nash) get screwed.

dmtrader · 01-17-10, 10:27 AM

Regular season and playoffs (or Bowl season) are two different things. I'm OK with a separate trophy for each.

neville sinclair · 01-19-10, 07:54 PM

Cant forget about guys on teams that don't spend 200 mil a year.

DeluxeLiner · 01-20-10, 12:10 AM

before the playoffs...or else the best player on the champ team would almost always win and then what about champion mvp award.

Carseller4 · 01-20-10, 12:12 AM

Before the playoffs....prevents bias

Capybara · 01-20-10, 12:25 AM

I guess like everyone's saying, it seems only fair to have them at the end of the season...

But doesn't it always seem like the guys who win the awards fizzle out immediately in the post-season and you wish you could take it back??? (Like Marvin Lewis!) Maybe there's some compromise we can come to.

texashighroller · 01-20-10, 12:54 AM

Thats why they have championship mvp trophies. If you waited to vote at the end of the season, only the players in the championship would win

BernardMadoff · 01-20-10, 01:15 AM

No they shouldnt, simply because every player doesnt get to play in the postseason. That would be a very bias award.

odusmykal · 01-20-10, 01:25 AM

Maybe they should decide after the regular season, just not announce winners until after championship game.. Then after championship game, a day or two later, have one big presentation..

tbonmusikman · 01-20-10, 02:12 AM

Originally posted by Capybara

I guess like everyone's saying, it seems only fair to have them at the end of the season...

But doesn't it always seem like the guys who win the awards fizzle out immediately in the post-season and you wish you could take it back??? (Like Marvin Lewis!) Maybe there's some compromise we can come to.

Mark Ingram, Alabama-National Champions. Just to name an easy one.

I would say a lot of times we SEE the award-winners that fizzle out much more than we remember when we don't. When they don't we forget about them because it's not a big story if someone good enough to win a big award's team also wins or goes very far. The thing is, what would you define as "fizzling out" if it's not winning the championship, that's something one out of roughly thirty teams (or more for college) get to do. Even if it's not making the quarter finals, that's something only the top 25% get to do. If the most valuable player (matt ryan's rookie year comes to mind) is playing on a team that doesn't get there, he should still be voted the award.

Also, as everyone else has said-that's why there are championship MVP's