Dallas Griffin wins the Draddy Award
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.
December 5, 2007 at 10:41 am
That’s great and all, but the business school is the Mid-American Conference of academics.
December 5, 2007 at 10:49 am
Easy there, Brick.
December 5, 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.
December 5, 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…
December 5, 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.
December 5, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Brick went Harvard, the Stansbury of the east.
December 5, 2007 at 1:39 pm
ChicagoTTU, you want one eggroll or one order eggroll? Because two eggroll in one order eggroll.
December 5, 2007 at 3:17 pm
I was hoping for more props from the readers or a job offer.
December 5, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Kudos to Griffin for his outstanding achievement.
December 5, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Nice.
December 6, 2007 at 7:10 am
Dallas,
Great job! After you get your MBA, you’ll have to get rid of the goatee.
December 6, 2007 at 1:35 pm
He’s on his way to becoming surgeon general.
December 7, 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.
December 8, 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?
December 14, 2007 at 3:42 am
Seems he rebounded after losing Pam, and then getting pepper sprayed by Dwight.
December 16, 2007 at 7:56 am
Of Course he won the award. You don’t get that award by spending time in the weight room.
January 2, 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!