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Why Kasey Cooper Should Have Won USA Collegiate Player of the Year

Call it being a homer. Call it sour grapes. I am totally OK with it. Kasey Cooper not winning the USA Collegiate Softball Player of the Year didn’t sit well with me.

Being a life-long Auburn fan and the resident softball fanatic, it should come as no surprise that I was miffed that No. 13 didn’t walk away with the most prestigious award given to the best college softball player in America. But, before you click the “X” in the top right hand corner, let me tell you why I believe Cooper was shafted and Michigan’s Sierra Romero was reverse Peyton Manning’d.