I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a conference commissioner get riled up over a player not getting named as a semi-finalist for an award, but that’s just what happened today with the AAC’s Mike Aresco. Aresco issued a statement on ECU’s Justin Hardy being snubbed from the Biletnikoff semi-finalist list.
I think this a little over the top, especially from a conference commissioner. While Hardy has had a great season and certainly has had a great career, this award isn’t a career achievement award and the guys who made the cut had strong cases for being there. While Aresco is up in arms about Hardy getting snubbed, there are some other deserving candidates who didn’t make the cut this year and you don’t see other conference commissioners writing angry letters about them. I think this entire thing is a bit over the top.