Are there more suitable subjects in college football for the widespread wrath that focuses on Timmuh? Absolutely. I think he's a decent human being but one with failings both personal and professional.
Tebow is, in my opinion, a rather unique example in that he's become something of a mirror for others to project their own feelings and opinions about certain things: the role of religion in college athletics; when does proselytizing by a public figure cross a line whether of university rules or simple good taste? what is worthy of winning The Draddy? This can't help but amp up the contentiousness in any discussion of Tebow.
I certainly agree that I demonize the kid a little harshly on this basis just as I feel that others rush to put him on a pedestal as being the embodiment of all that is decent, pure and noble in college athletics out of the opposite motivation.
Then there's the inevitable backlash to four years of relentless Tebow hype. Take the Draddy situation. Here is a kid who has NEVER challenged himself intellectually. He took the SAT early got a bare NCAA qualifying score and never took it again. He, despite a socio-economic background that would have allowed him the benefit of a quality, challenging public or private high school education, chose to remain home schooled. He, despite the opportunities available at a major public research university, chose to hide out in a home economics major. Yet, despite all this, we had the CBS announcers ad nauseum cramming his "honors student" status down our throats during broadcasts, and we witnessed him being handed an academic award that in recent years has gone to Molecular Genetics majors and Rhodes Scholars.
With the pro-Tebow drumbeat so out of proportion to reality, it shouldn't be surprising that the anti-Tebow blowback might also lack a little proportion.
