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===Career accomplishments===
===Career accomplishments===
*Vince is the first and only player in NCAA I-A history to pass for 3,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards in the same season.
*Vince is the first and only player in NCAA I-A history to pass for 2,500 yards and rush for 1,000 yards in the same season.
*Win/loss record as a starter of 30-2 as of January 5, 2006, ranking him #1 of all UT quarterbacks by number of wins.
*Win/loss record as a starter of 30-2 as of January 5, 2006, ranking him #1 of all UT quarterbacks by number of wins.
*Vince’s career passing completion percentage is the best in UT history, 60.8%.
*Vince’s career passing completion percentage is the best in UT history, 60.8%.

Revision as of 10:31, 5 January 2006

File:Si cover 2005 college football preview vince young.jpg
Sports Illustrated cover featuring Vince Young.

Vincent Paul Young, Jr. (born May 18, 1983 in Houston, Texas) is a college football quarterback for the University of Texas Longhorns. He was one of three finalists for the 2005 Heisman Trophy, finishing second to Reggie Bush in the final vote, and led his team to a BCS national championship in 2006 with a win against the University of Southern California (USC) in the Rose Bowl Game.

High school career

Young was coached by Ray Seals at Madison High School in Houston, Texas. He started at quarterback for three years, and compiled 7,624 yards of total offense during his career.

Among the honors he received:

He was also a varsity athlete in numerous other sports. He was a four-year letterwinner (20+ points per game career average) and two-time all-district performer in basketball as a guard/forward, a three-year letterwinner in track and field and member of two district champion 400-meter relay squads, and an outfielder and pitcher for the baseball team for two years.

College career

Young signed with Texas in 2002 and "redshirted" rather than playing his first year. As a redshirt freshman in 2003, Young played in 12 games, including seven as the Longhorns' starting quarterback. He had a 6-1 record as a starter. As a sophomore in 2004, Young started every game and led the Longhorns to a 11-1 season record, a top 5 final ranking, and the school's first-ever appearance and victory in the Rose Bowl against the University of Michigan. In 2005, Young led the Longhorns to a 12-0 record at the end of the season, a #2 BCS ranking, and a come from behind victory in the Rose Bowl Game against USC to clinch an undisputed Division I-A national title. Young was named MVP of the game for the second consecutive year on the heels of a 400+ all purpose yardage game, 267 passing yards, and over 200 rushing yards with 3 rushing touchdowns.

Young is considered a dual threat quarterback due to his capabilities both rushing and passing the ball. Young entered the 2005 season on many lists of likely candidates to win the Heisman Trophy and was indeed a finalist for the trophy. Young has said that he plans to return for his senior season in 2006 rather than enter the NFL draft as a junior. [1]

Early in his collegiate career, Vince Young had been criticized as "great rusher...average passer", and his unconventional throwing motion had been criticised as being "side-arm"[2] as opposed to the conventional "over the top" throwing motion typically used by college quarterbacks. However, by the 2005 season most of the criticism had faded, and he developed into a consistent and precise passer. Young finished the 2005 regular season as the #1 rated passer in the nation, with a Quarterback Rating of 168.6. [3]

Career accomplishments

  • Vince is the first and only player in NCAA I-A history to pass for 2,500 yards and rush for 1,000 yards in the same season.
  • Win/loss record as a starter of 30-2 as of January 5, 2006, ranking him #1 of all UT quarterbacks by number of wins.
  • Vince’s career passing completion percentage is the best in UT history, 60.8%.
  • Passed for 40 TDs (No. 4 in UT history) while rushing for 2,851 yards (No. 1 on UT’s all-time QB rushing list/No. 7 on UT’s all-time list) and 33 TDs (No. 5 on UT’s all-time rushing TDs list/T-No. 1 among QBs)
  • Young's 9,167 yards of total offense is a school record
  • Young has rushed and thrown for over 100 yards in the same game a UT-record five times in his career
  • He is the first player in UT history to register more than one game with 400 or more yards of total offense, a feat he has accomplished three times
  • Set a UT record for total offensive yards in a game, with 506 yards against Oklahoma State on October 29, 2005
  • He is the only QB in UT history to rush for 100 yards in three or more games during a season and has done so in both his freshman and sophomore years
  • Young set the UT single-game completion percentage record against Oklahoma State in 2004 by completing 18 of 21 passes (85.7%). He broke his own record in 2005 by completing 25 of 29 passes (86.2%) against Colorado.
  • Young set the UT single-game record for rushing yards by a QB with 192 versus Michigan in the Rose Bowl. He broke his own record in 2005 by rushing for 267 yards against Oklahoma State.
  • Young owns five of the top seven single-game QB rushing performances in UT history: 267 yards vs Oklahoma State as a Junior; 200 yards vs Southern California as a Junior; 192 yards vs. Michigan as a Sophomore; 163 yards vs. Nebraska as a Freshman; 158 yards at Texas Tech as a Sophomore
  • Young has six of the top 8 longest runs by a QB in UT history
  • Young became the first player in UT history to pass and rush for 1,000 or more yards in the same season
  • Young became the first quarterback in UT history to have three 100-yard rushing games (vs. Oklahoma, at Baylor, vs. Nebraska) in the same season and is tied with Ricky Williams (1995) for the third-most 100-yard games by a freshman in school history.
  • Young's 17 wins in 2003-2004 are the most ever by a UT QB in their first two years
  • Has the best-ever completion percentage by a UT QB in their first two seasons
  • 43 TDs accounted for are the most-ever by a UT QB in their first two seasons
  • Is a two-time winner of the Rose Bowl MVP award, joining Ron Dayne, Bob Schloredt, and Charles White as the only two-time winners.
  • In the 2006 NCAA national championship game, Vince Young turned in one of the greatest performances in Rose Bowl history. He completed 30 of 40 passes for 267 yards and carried the ball 19 times for 200 yards and 3 rushing touchdowns. He was named Rose Bowl MVP for the second time in his career. UT beat USC by the score of 41 to 38 and Vince Young ran in the winning touchdown. UT beat USC to ruin their chances of winning three national championships in a row, and they subsequently ended USC's 34 game win streak.

College honors

Notes

  1. ^ Veyhl, Jake. Longhorns No. 1 for First Time in BCS The Daily Texan. October 25, 2005.
  2. ^ Brown, Chip. In-Vince-ible Athlon Sports. August 8, 2005.
  3. ^ Division I-A National Player Report Passing Efficiency NCAA.
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