[washingtonismoney]

Even if Stanford fans were belittling Mayfield personally, that doesn't exactly make them unusual. Plenty of fans play the "our guys are white knights, theirs are mercenaries" game. It's kind of a classic genre in college sports. Here, randomly, I have found several fans saying RUDE THINGS about Mayfield:

https://twitter.com/truckerjim72/status/...7107796992
https://twitter.com/shanejblair/status/9...6995817472 & https://twitter.com/shanejblair/status/9...8880845824
https://twitter.com/PSUCommRadio/status/...6153466880

Anyway, could find a lot more if I cared. Which I don't. It's possible Stanford fans would be singled out for special opprobrium because of people's preexisting preconceptions about us, but, well, who cares, really.

That said, I think Mayfield was the deserving winner and don't really have a problem with the award. 

[washingtonismoney]

Even if Stanford fans were belittling Mayfield personally, that doesn't exactly make them unusual. Plenty of fans play the "our guys are white knights, theirs are mercenaries" game. It's kind of a classic genre in college sports. Here, randomly, I have found several fans saying RUDE THINGS about Mayfield:

https://twitter.com/truckerjim72/status/...7107796992
https://twitter.com/shanejblair/status/9...6995817472 & https://twitter.com/shanejblair/status/9...8880845824
https://twitter.com/PSUCommRadio/status/...6153466880

Anyway, could find a lot more if I cared. Which I don't. It's possible Stanford fans would be singled out for special opprobrium because of people's preexisting preconceptions about us, but, well, who cares, really.

That said, I think Mayfield was the deserving winner and don't really have a problem with the award.