Startlegram on Padron

[The PonyGrad]

Skim through the watch lists of the Davey O'Brien and Manning Awards, which recognize the top nation's top quarterback at year's end, and the cast of usual suspects from the country's perennial powers will appear.

So too will a Rivals.com two-star recruit from Southlake Carroll who had one official Football Bowl Subdivision scholarship offer as a senior in 2008.

SMU was the lone school willing to take a chance on Kyle Padron, who was never able to compile the résumé many have come to expect of a Dragons quarterback because of a broken right hand five games into his senior season.

That risk has definitely been worth the reward for the Mustangs as the 6-foot-4, 217-pound sophomore continues to help re-establish credibility to a program that was handed the death penalty by the NCAA in 1987.

He didn't take over as SMU's starting quarterback until the eighth game of the 2009 season, when starter Bo Levi Mitchell was injured. The Mustangs were 3-4 at the time.

Padron proceeded to go 5-1 as the starter and posted a 159.9 passer rating to rank fifth in the nation. He also helped SMU to the biggest turnaround in the nation, going from back-to-back 1-11 seasons to 8-5.

The final victory was a 45-10 rout of Nevada in the Hawaii Bowl, where Padron earned MVP honors after passing for a school-record 460 yards and two touchdowns. It was the Mustangs' first bowl game in 25 years.



Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/09/22 ... z10LwJvAHO

[Mestengo]

DP. Gerrrrrr

[DiamondM75]

DP. Gerrrrrr

Filler. Required by all BAD journalists.

[The PonyGrad]

We will see less of those mentions as there become fewer and fewer "first time since..." things to site.

[Big Hoss]

We really haven't given them much material to work with since 1987.

[cutter]

nice piece.
thanks.

although, I must say that I didn't think anything from a publication named the "Startle-gram" would be worth reading. lol.