Someone's not in love with Tebow?

I'll come right out with it. I like CFN, probably more so than any other college football site. Sure, they may not have loved everything I've written about them. But they're still a hell of a lot better than ESPN-types.

What am I getting at? Well, where, anywhere, have you heard someone, anyone dare say that Tim Tebow is not the OH-MY-GOD-HE'S-THE-MOST-AWESOMEST-INCREDIBLE-HANDS-DOWN-GREATEST-COLLEGE-FOOTBALL-PLAYER-IN-THE-HISTORY-OF-MAAAAAN!!!!!!!!!!!

I just read it today, actually, courtesy of a Mr. Pete Fiutak. CFN on Dec. 9, 2008:

"Media, coaches, and everyone surrounding college football, I’m begging you to quit with the insufferable fawning and deification of Tebow like Dick Vitale and the college hoops-types like to do with Tyler Hansbrough, a marginally talented, grindy player who’ll make a nice living sitting on someone’s NBA bench. Tebow is a better football player than Hansbrough is a college basketball player, but running around and screaming “let’s go” all the time and getting in players’ faces doesn’t make him special. It makes him annoying."

I encourage you to go read the entire column, as it only get's better. But why hasn't anyone in the main stream media seen this already? Ratings, money, good TV, and oh yeah, ratings. ESPN isn't stupid. Tim Tebow is good looking (when you're the Heisman winner, you can get a lot of tail), a good student (well, for Florida), and super Christian (circumcising young Asian kids is his idea of a vacation). All that sells faster than $8 Bud Lights at a NASCAR race.

I think the problem I have with Tebow, which isn't personal, is that people are equating him being marketable with being a good football player. Colt McCoy could be in the same boat, but isn't. My guess is that it comes down to a simple production difference. Tebow already won a national championship (34-6 since 2006). And while Texas has been very, very good under McCoy (31-7 since 2006), he still won't get a shot at the BCS title.