The Top Ten Reasons the Hobey Baker Award is Better than the Heisman Trophy:

• 10. Hobey Baker played hockey *and* football.

• 9. Only one recent Hobey Baker Award winner ended up with a Mickey Mouse team.

• 8. Hobey Baker never ran up the score to 222-0.

• 7. If a Hobey Baker winner ends up playing in Canada, it's not a bad thing.

• 6. When a Hobey Baker winner is accused of slashing, he goes to the penalty box for two minutes, and I don't have do hear about it every time I turn on the TV for the next year.

• 5. Two words: Olympic Football.

• 4. Hobey Baker was a Princeton graduate; John Heisman went to Brown and Penn. Need I say more?

• 3. Heisman Trophy winners can write their own tickets; Hobey Baker winners labor in obscurity like the rest of us.

• 2. No one poses for the Hobey Baker Award when they score.

  And the number one reason the Hobey Baker Award is better than the Heisman Trophy...

• How often does a guy from Bowling Green win the Heisman?