[Hulk01]

A quick historical note.

The first Stanford fan boards tended to be recruiting boards with occasional tidbits of depressing in-season news about our last defeat or our inevitable next one.  Recruiting, however, held out this small promise of an End to All Of That.  Just one guy in some Top 250 could send us into fits of optimism.

As our teams improved, they gave fans something else worth talking about.  Now we see far more posts on current players and prospects for upcoming games.  It's a new day, and so welcome.  But I've kept the old interests and habits, partly because I relate to these kids and live their choices vicariously, even getting to know a few of them and their families each season. 

I'm sure it's not everyone's deal, but what is? I have no interest in women's basketball, for example, and can't name our starting lineup in basketball, and can name one of our baseball starters only because his name is Zach Hoffpaiur.  But, odd to most, I can name all of top seven golfers and can probably tell you where each of them are from. 

[Hulk01]

A quick historical note.

The first Stanford fan boards tended to be recruiting boards with occasional tidbits of depressing in-season news about our last defeat or our inevitable next one.  Recruiting, however, held out this small promise of an End to All Of That.  Just one guy in some Top 250 could send us into fits of optimism.

As our teams improved, they gave fans something else worth talking about.  Now we see far more posts on current players and prospects for upcoming games.  It's a new day, and so welcome.  But I've kept the old interests and habits, partly because I relate to these kids and live their choices vicariously, even getting to know a few of them and their families each season. 

I'm sure it's not everyone's deal, but what is? I have no interest in women's basketball, for example, and can't name our starting lineup in basketball, and can name one of our baseball starters only because his name is Zach Hoffpaiur.  But, odd to most, I can name all of top seven golfers and can probably tell you where each of them are from.