With respect, you miss the point.I am Bird!! wrote:So let me get this straight....having Bylsma in BG was not a golden opportunity for this community and this CAUSE??? So, if we do not get creative with ideas to save this program, then I guess next winter I will have to eat my "cracker jacks" in an empty arena?
This was never a real community event, the aura surrounding it has given it a reputation as being more fun and exciting than most every other actual athletics department event. And this is true. In that, I think some in athletics came to resent it. It upstaged other events. Other times, it was like Animal House on Ice. But in every case, it was about the men who played, coached, and those of us who were or are still within a pretty small circle, gathering, reveling in history, beer, golf, beer, steak, beer, and beer.
I wasn't there, couldn't have been if I wanted to be. But if I read the feel of this years event, this was "the family" getting together again, to revel, but also to get grounded again.
The "family" that gathered, is the same that is going to make or break this. Not 20 people who pass by a table with Dan sitting behind it, because it is "a thing to do" in BG that weekend. And having had Cartwright there also makes it worth skipping any public face to it. She and the "family" had to meet face to face. And as I understand it, with Jack Vivian clearly in the middle. The "family" trusts Coach Vivian. The "family" doesn't trust Cartwright/BGSU. Cartwright trust Dr. Vivian [sic.] It was important, maybe vital that the core of major donors and movers see this. Not sure you can overstate how important it may prove.
