The player for BYU that delivered the hit to OU's Bradford was Coleby Clawson. He apologized for the causing last year's heisman trophy winner the injury, which showed class, but Clawson had nothing to apologize for.
Multiple sources have said the hit was clean, and watching the game and highlights one could see the hit really was a good hit and was not a cheap shot. Clawson received rude messages on Facebook from Oklahoma fans saying the hit on Bradford was bad. The full story is at http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4454135.
This is football for crying out loud. People get hurt playing the game. Bradford won the heisman trophy in 2008 and decided to come back to college instead of going to the NFL, so everyone feels bad for him. I don't feel bad for him, because if a linebacker from a supposedly inferior school like BYU can hurt Bradford then imagine what would have happened if NFL linebackers like Brian Urlacher, Ray Lewis or Shawne Merriman hit him.
I understand Clawson wanted to show class by showing remorse for Bradford, but he shouldn't feel bad. If Tulane quarterback Joe Kemp is injured Saturday against No. 9 BYU I wouldn't expect Clawson to apologize for Kemp's injury as well so the college football world needs to get over the romanticism of the sport and realize that these kinds of things happen.
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