[Spiny_Norman]

Spiny, as a football fan why were you even considering Yale or Duke?

Publius, my world had expanded since I was 5 years old.  By the time that I was in HS, I paid attention to college basketball too.  Duke had captured my fancy when they went to the NCAA final my senior year with Gene Banks, Jim Spanarkel and Mike Gminski.  I liked the way they played.  This led me to research the school and discover that the rest of it seemed pretty good too.

In my prior post, I skipped over the single most important factor in my decision to pursue admission to Stanford - Tom Watson.  My passion in high school was golf.  Tom Watson was my role model, not only as a player and a person.  But he was a golfing midwesterner like me.  And he married a nice Jewish girl from Kansas City!  I wanted his life.  I figured that I could start with Stanford.

[Spiny_Norman]

Spiny, as a football fan why were you even considering Yale or Duke?

Publius, my world had expanded since I was 5 years old.  By the time that I was in HS, I paid attention to college basketball too.  Duke had captured my fancy when they went to the NCAA final my senior year with Gene Banks, Jim Spanarkel and Mike Gminski.  I liked the way they played.  This led me to research the school and discover that the rest of it seemed pretty good too.

In my prior post, I skipped over the single most important factor in my decision to pursue admission to Stanford - Tom Watson.  My passion in high school was golf.  Tom Watson was my role model, not only as a player and a person.  But he was a golfing midwesterner like me.  And he married a nice Jewish girl from Kansas City!  I wanted his life.  I figured that I could start with Stanford.