SSadler said:
I'll jump in on this one, and try to follow the wise advice of Professor Robert Reid quoting Socrates (?) . . . "Always stand in the middle of the boat." (think about it)
Stranger is a man of many interests and noble heritage/pursuits. The old baylorfans at its best seemed a designed match for his breadth of interest and thought and wit. (And it did happen to be free; and it did happen to have a distinct place not just in chat boards, but in the real, bona fide history of Baylor University presidential history.)
Sic'em owners never set out with a Stranger-kind of reader in mind. Sic'em was in its origin a recruiting site--and the best there was. But over time, with certain demise in some parts of baylorfans such that many (myself included) left that site, interest (pressure?) was aimed Sic'em's way to expand its topics and stand in the gap of the diminishing baylorfans site. Sic'em's passion is not for who's a favorite professor and/or which administrators should be fired and/or which Sing acts should make Pigskin. Baylor politics which Stranger (and I) enjoyed rumbling around in has never been a priority for Sic'em.
Two sites; overlapping objectives at places; but not mirrors of each in terms of priorities and purposes.
i'll keep paying for Sic'em and feel I get ALL my money's worth. AND I'd even pay for Stranger to start a site for all of his various, broad, and noble ruminations on all things Baylor.
just 2 cents worth. hope that's fair.
Well my Daddy said fair came once a year, first week of October, in Dallas.
. . . for whatever that's worth.
As for the rest of your missive, I'd say you were pretty right on. And I thank you for your somewhat kind words. In reference to my wit, most would agree you are half-right.
I never linked my approach to baylorfans as a good fit, but I believe you may be correct. My musings were praised as well as reviled over there, which is as it should be.
What turned into great fodder for literary efforts was the Great War against the Baylor Alumni Association waged by a couple of sorry-ass regents and ex-regents (and a few equally low-life fellow travelers) for the sole purpose of gaining complete control of the message at old Bear High. It was kinda like a paraphrase of a Johnny Cash song . . . I shot the BAA in Waco, just to watch it die.
They wanted a new Baylor in their own narcissistic image.
Anyway, total victory was not claimed by either camp and Baylor is certainly not any better for the collateral damage that occurred. For many of us, the true spirit and familial feelings of Baylor are lost and gone forever, dreadful sorry, Clementine.
In a way I miss those battles. Like Patton said, "war. I love it. My God I love it so".
Perhaps you are correct when you say sicem365 ain't my cup of tea. There seems to be no real sense of football history over here. Most don't appreciate that historical insight that guys like you and offer. Maybe they don't understand that we've seen this train wreck before. They see little Matty for what he tells us he is. I see him for the guys he resembles from our sorry football past.
I am a life-long Baylor fan so I hope I'm wrong. I'll always pull for the Bears, but can still wish for a different coach.
Thanks for granting me a forum today. Forgive me of any rants I undertake. This is, after all, intended to be entertainment.
Beat the Commodores!
