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Dallas Griffin wins the Draddy Award

Posted by BRAGGonUT on December 5th, 2007 under Uncategorized

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The Draddy Award is known as the “Academic Heisman” and was awarded in New York last night to Texas Center Dallas Griffin. Griffin is the first Longhorn to win the award, which recognizes an individual as the best in the country for combined academic success, football performance and exemplary community leadership.

“We are so proud of Dallas and everything he’s accomplished,” said head coach Mack Brown. “Winning the Draddy Trophy – the Academic Heisman – is the perfect tribute to a guy who has meant so much to our program and is such a great representative of college football. Dallas is the ideal role model for young student-athletes across the country. He’s been a leader on the field and in the classroom for five years and is a great young man who has an unbelievably bright future.”

During his career at Texas, Griffin has been a four-time first-team Academic All-Big 12 selection, has posted a perfect 4.0 GPA six times and graduated with 3.88 GPA with a double major in business honors and finance in the spring of 2007. This fall, he began his coursework in UT’s prestigious Red McCombs MBA Program.

From a guy who earned degrees in both the undergraduate and graduate business programs at Texas, those are impressive numbers without ever even practicing on the football team. Add the fact that Dallas played in 32 games before his season ended this year due to a knee injury, and that is outstanding. It is truly what college sports is supposed to be about.

Congrats to Dallas and the Texas football community for a great award.

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17 Responses

  1. BrickHorn said:

    December 5th, 2007 at 10:41 am

    That’s great and all, but the business school is the Mid-American Conference of academics.

  2. BRAGGonUT said:

    December 5th, 2007 at 10:49 am

    Easy there, Brick.

  3. Mockingbird said:

    December 5th, 2007 at 11:30 am

    “That’s great and all, but the business school is the Mid-American Conference of academics.”

    Whuuuuhh? Please tell me you are smoking crack.

  4. ChicagoTTU said:

    December 5th, 2007 at 11:43 am

    Wow, I wonder if the asian chick who wrote his essays and went to class for him can get Dallas a nice internship, too…

  5. Mockingbird said:

    December 5th, 2007 at 12:25 pm

    “Wow, I wonder if the asian chick who wrote his essays and went to class for him can get Dallas a nice internship, too”

    ChicagoTTU has a lot of Asian “friends”, just in case anyone was worried. He met them at the Lubbock dry cleaners.

  6. rsgfrom03 said:

    December 5th, 2007 at 12:30 pm

    Brick went Harvard, the Stansbury of the east.

  7. Woody Bombay said:

    December 5th, 2007 at 1:39 pm

    ChicagoTTU, you want one eggroll or one order eggroll? Because two eggroll in one order eggroll.

  8. Dallas Griffin said:

    December 5th, 2007 at 3:17 pm

    I was hoping for more props from the readers or a job offer.

  9. DrJHorn said:

    December 5th, 2007 at 4:35 pm

    Kudos to Griffin for his outstanding achievement.

  10. SizzleChest said:

    December 5th, 2007 at 9:06 pm

    Nice.

  11. 13ev0 said:

    December 6th, 2007 at 7:10 am

    Dallas,

    Great job! After you get your MBA, you’ll have to get rid of the goatee.

  12. C. Everett Koop said:

    December 6th, 2007 at 1:35 pm

    He’s on his way to becoming surgeon general.

  13. beowulf said:

    December 7th, 2007 at 4:29 am

    Henry James has always been very jealous of and mean-spirited towards Dallas.

    But I think it has more to do with Dallas being heterosexual than his being the ideal student-athlete.

  14. black eyes of Texas said:

    December 8th, 2007 at 4:40 pm

    The Red McCombs MBA program?????
    Does that mean he is going to learn how to dump non-productive properties onto the shoulders of the taxpayer?

  15. yikes said:

    December 14th, 2007 at 3:42 am

    Seems he rebounded after losing Pam, and then getting pepper sprayed by Dwight.

  16. Capt. Insano said:

    December 16th, 2007 at 7:56 am

    Of Course he won the award. You don’t get that award by spending time in the weight room.

  17. java said:

    January 2nd, 2008 at 10:56 pm

    Jacque loved the Business Honors program @ Texas. It’s a great program that leaves little margin for error (or slacking).

    He did well in the classroom.

    Hope our defense does well on the field in ‘08. This year it was pathetic!

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