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Manziel's issues started after he won the Heisman.
As for Cam Newton there's the stuff that everyone "knows" happen but couldn't prove (even though the NCAA, the states of Georgia/Florida/Alabama/Mississippi and even the feds spent quite awhile looking) with pay-for-play. Beyond that, he had been a solid citizen since getting kicked out of Florida, and truthfully still has been.
Jameis Winston: oh please. He won the Heisman after the Tallahassee PD justifiably decided not to take the case. And despite the muckraking that the New York Times - and Paul Finebaum because he was afraid that Winston would beat Alabama - did, TPD dropped the case because the witnesses to the alleged incident told the police that it was consensual. They were literally in the apartment room when the entire incident occurred, as well as before and afterwards. It never was he said/she said. It was he AND two witnesses who perfectly corroborated his story said versus she said. The media ignored this because the two witnesses happened to be his friends, roommates and FSU football teammates, meaning that the media considered them not to be credible. So TPD and the local district attorney AND the state attorney decided not to bring the case because they had absolutely no chance at winning. The media knew this but wanted FSU to bench Winston for the entire year anyway merely because he was accused even though they knew that there was no way the case was ever going to go to trial. Or if the case had gone to trial, there was no way there would ever be a conviction. (The media was able to ignore the sworn statements given by Winston's roommates/teammates but a jury/judge would have had to consider them.) It was just media garbage trying to set the standard that anyone who gets accused of this crime should automatically be suspended for the entire football season. Not doing so meant that they were allegedly putting football over protecting women. They claimed that sitting Winston out one year wouldn't cause Winston any harm because he would still get to play the other 3. Never mind that he would lose an entire year of eligibility merely due to an accusation.
Incidentally, this won't cost Baker Mayfield the Heisman, and it shouldn't. What SHOULD cost him the Heisman is the fact that stats should be meaningless in that league where everyone runs a wide open offense and no one plays defense. There are more future NFL defensive front seven prospects at Alabama alone than in that entire conference. They make the Pac-10 look like the NFC North. When was the last QB or RB from the Big 12 to do anything in the NFL? Adrian Peterson and that's it. Some of the receivers do OK, but only a tiny percentage of who gets drafted. I get that it is a down year for college football statistically, mainly because Ohio State and Penn State choked away the spotlight (especially Saquon Barkley and J.T. Barrett), the Bryce Love kid got hurt and UGA/Clemson/Alabama are all defensive teams whose offense is handled by committee, plus Miami is doing it with smoke and mirrors. So Mayfield would get it by default, but the default shouldn't be whatever Big 12 QB happens to be putting up the biggest numbers. Maybe the RB from Wisconsin should get it instead. Yeah, Wisconsin is an RB factory and the RB at Wisconsin always puts up big numbers and none of them do anything in the NFL. But rewarding the Big 12 for deciding that they are going to just stop playing defense is wrong.
I'm curious, is that predatory Clemson player now in Congress?