We’re mad as hell, and we’re not going to take this anymore!

We apologize for paraphrasing Charlton Heston, but it just seemed so fitting.

We promised we wouldn’t do this again. We promised. We know. We’re sorry, but it needs to be done one last time.

Troy Davis.

Somebody explain the logic of denying Troy Davis what’s rightfully his.

The man runs for the third-highest rushing-yard total in one season in the history of college football. More than Walter Payton, more than Gale Sayers, more than Jim Brown.

He is the only back to ever accomplish back to back seasons of gaining 2,000 rushing yards. Marcus Allen couldn’t do that. Neither could O.J. Simpson, Barry Sanders or Rashaan Salaam.

Nobody.

He does this on a losing team that at times had few or no other legitimate offensive weapons. He does this against the toughest teams in the nation, week after week, game after game, play after play. And, contrary to popular opinion, he does it the best in the second and third quarters, not the fourth against third-stringers.

Ask anybody.

Anybody that is, except Lee Corso and the guys who hand out the Doak Walker award, the honor that goes to the best running back in college football. They gave that honor to Byron Hanspard, the Texas Tech back who is, admittedly, a great back.

But he’s no Troy Davis.

Troy Davis: the Rodney Dangerfield of college football.

Somebody thinks Davis isn’t the best college player at his position?

And they call Iowa State football a joke?