writer gushes all over tim tebow; unsurprisingly, makes outlandish claim

cbssportsline's dennis dodd recently penned this puff piece about tebow. in case you wouldn't be able to find it on your own, i've italicized the part of this that's just absolutely insane:

Tim could have left Nease a full year early, according to his father, but played one final high school season before enrolling a semester early in January 2006. Tebow couldn't have made a better decision. He threw only 33 passes as a freshman but was arguably the difference in Florida winning the national championship.

excuse me? someone, anyone, please tell me why the media is constantly all over tim tebow's jock. here's what he did that was meaningful last year:

-ran for or threw all three of his team's touchdowns in florida's 23-10 win over lsu
-picked up a bunch of first downs on designed sneaks
-was good looking
-became a good media story because, um, he's good looking, and kind of big, and played on a national championship winning team
-redefined the quarterback position forever (just kidding!)

look at the numbers and please try to explain to me why this guy is constantly fellated by anyone with a press pass. "arguably the difference in florida winning the national championship." what? arguable by who? his girlfriend? if you want to give him credit for the lsu game, and subsequently point out that if florida doesn't win that game, they don't get to play in the title game, that's fine. but what about the florida/south carolina game, in which gators DE jarvis moss blocked 2 kicks, including a potential game winning field goal? isn't he now "the difference?" tebow was nonexistent or close to it in many of florida's most important games, including florida st., georgia, arkansas, tennessee, and vandy. what a total load of bullcrap. i can't wait until the 2010 nfl draft, when some team takes tebow in the 5th round, then realizes he's like a worse throwing version of that lorenzen guy from kentucky who came out a few years back.