Unfortunately, my most lasting memory of Troy's years in Ames revolve around how much he suffered individually (never winning the Heisman) because ISU was so bad. Did you know that at that time (it's happened since), every D-I college football player who had rushed for over 2000 yards in a season won the Heisman trophy? My gosh, it had never happened before in the history of college football and Troy did it twice! It just goes to show that, unfortunately, the voters did not want to give the Heisman to a player on a losing team...
I loved watching him run as much as everybody and sat through some aweful games to see him, but come on. A LOT of those yards were late in the game against the other teams scrubs and we always had the ball because our defense couldn't stop a JV squad. So, were his numbers impressive...yes. Were they Heisman worthy...only with my ISU tinted glasses on. Look at the scores of those games, a lot were not even close to even being close.