Congratulations to Patrick Willis

A Manly Award Indeed

Patrick Willis received the Butkus Award last night. He's only the second linebacker from the SEC to ever win the award. The only other winner was Derek Thomas from Alabama. Congratulations to Patrick, winning the Butkus award on a 4 win team is impressive.
All this from a guy that couldn't break the starting rotation during the Cutcliffe era. I guess that is understandable considering we had Butkus award winners playing ahead of him...oh wait, no we didn't