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View Poll Results: Which Baylor Figure has done the most for BU?

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  • Abner McCall. Presided over the modernization of Baylor. Sent strong message to Playboy editors.

    28 33.73%
  • Herb Reynolds. Divested BU from Southern Baptist control. Eliminated that pesky Teaff character.

    20 24.10%
  • Robert Sloan. Kept TX red-brick industry afloat. Dreamed big dreams. Made being gay at BU OK.

    9 10.84%
  • Kim Mulkey. National champion. Revived Baylor's image in sporting world.

    26 31.33%
  • Clyde Hart. "Quarter-Miler U" gave BU 3 Individual 400m Gold Medals in last 3 Olympics.

    12 14.46%
  • George W. Bush. The Ranch. The Economic Summit. Vicente Fox. Commencement Speech.

    2 2.41%
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    Russell Lester. Religion Professor from the 60s through the 90s. Impacted a lot of students' lives. Some said he was boring. But, he was one of the kindest individuals I ever knew.

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    The description following Sloan's name is dead-on. You've never seen this many metros running around in your life.

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    You mean, "Lester, Lester, 'the test molester'; the man who gave Jesus a B?" That how the rhyme went when I was at The B. People hated him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhiChi56
    The description following Sloan's name is dead-on. You've never seen this many metros running around in your life.
    So. Freaking. True.

    And they're still too chicken to ask out any of the female population (probably because that's not their thing in the first place).

    --knows guys who spend more time on their hair than she does

    P.S.: Why no option for ninjacoco? Starter of the Baylor Puffalump Studies Department? Come on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fubar
    I'm voting for whoever it was who made the Schlotzsky's over on Eighth Street quit selling 50 cent longnecks on Friday afternoons and eventually shut 'em down and become a much-needed t-shirt shop.

    1981, I think. NOBS probably remembers.
    Short stumble from my Kokernot home, that was. Buck stops with Herb (his staff) on that call. They spoke out to stop Schlotzsky's from endangering the nearby building that hosted the famed aphasia summer clinic.

    I think Shell corp. deserves some praise. They would give any BU student who could sign their name a credit card. Wasn't as close as Schlotsky's but that's a lot of beer at $3.15 a six pack of Michelob before you reached the $200 credit limit.

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    Bob Bullock and Ann Richards...were they not in power, we would not be in the Big XII.

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    George's should probably be on this list.

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    Late 20th century "star": Grant Teaff

    Early 21st century "stars": Kim MR and Jim Turner. Kim: NC; Jim: Steele out, GuyMo in; Drew in (he didn't need to be involved in Bliss out.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by CodynWaco
    Bob Bullock and Ann Richards...were they not in power, we would not be in the Big XII.
    That is innaccurate to say the least and bordering on downright false.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RD2WINAGNBEAR86
    My hat goes off to all of the above, but I think Michael Johnson certainly deserves a mention. When he won the Gold in both the 200M and 400M in the 1996 Olympics, he put Baylor on the world stage. The pride I felt as a fellow Baylor Bear and business major was phenomenal. I may be mistaken, but I think Michael Johnson still owns the world record in both events.

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    Outside our bubble not all that many people know that Johnson went to Baylor. Certainly those around the track world and those associated with BU do but the general public has no idea who Michael Johnson is much less that he went to BU.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BearMeat1845
    You mean, "Lester, Lester, 'the test molester'; the man who gave Jesus a B?" That how the rhyme went when I was at The B. People hated him.
    Lester the tester,
    The grade-point molester
    The man who gave Jesus a "B."

    Never understood why folks thought the was tough. Maybe he softened up as he neared retirement. Don't recall him being hated by anyone.

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    Have to say ol' Abner overall.

    Reynolds basically built on what Abner had done.

    For better or worse, Abner took us from being a Baptist College to a University. He also had high standing with Texas Baptists.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nein51
    That is innaccurate to say the least and bordering on downright false.
    Not quite. It was all Bullock. Here's BearMeat's take on that debate:

    http://bearmeat.blogspot.com/2006/08...se-baylor.html

    Which was based on this DMN article leading up to the TCU game:

    http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont....4bf22e33.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by BearMeat1845
    Not quite. It was all Bullock. Here's BearMeat's take on that debate:

    http://bearmeat.blogspot.com/2006/08...se-baylor.html

    Which was based on this DMN article leading up to the TCU game:

    http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont....4bf22e33.html
    And both are inaccurate.

    While their influence certainly helped it is not the reason. Saying that it was devalues the reality of how good our football team had been in the 10 years prior to the formation of the conference. Scary as this might sound, we were a "powerhouse" in the SWC at the end of that era. If anyone other than UT and A&M made sense it was Baylor, not TT, not TCU, not Rice, not UH...but Baylor. In fact, in the 10 years prior to the formation we owned all of those teams. I have posted the results before every time this comes up.

    To say we only got in because of Bullock or Richards is bull hockey.
    Last edited by nein51; 03-04-07 at 04:52 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DMN
    According to folklore, politicians in Austin made the decisions and forced Texas and Texas A&M to take Texas Tech and Baylor along. That's the "biggest myth in the west," according to former Texas chancellor William Cunningham.

    Texas Tech would join the 12-team league on its own merits, Cunningham said. The final spot came down to Baylor or TCU. Those two were the only viable choices.

    "Baylor had much better attendance at football games, and Baylor's overall statistical profile was much more positive," Cunningham said. "When we looked at it and tried to say which one was the logical choice, Baylor appeared to be the more logical choice."
    If TT joined on its own merits then we DAMN sure did. We were 6-4 against TT in the 10 prior years. We also had a better record than they did 7 out of those 10 years.

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    Robert Sloan. Kept TX red-brick industry afloat. Dreamed big dreams. Made being gay at BU OK.???

    Robert didn't make it OK to be at Baylor and be gay. In fact he had an people on the net searching out people who were gay and created files on them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fozzybear
    Russell Lester. Religion Professor from the 60s through the 90s. Impacted a lot of students' lives. Some said he was boring. But, he was one of the kindest individuals I ever knew.

    He was a great man. I took him for intro and then I took him for a 4000 level letters of paul class which when I took it to my counselor made her laugh and say you have got to be kidding. I LOVED the class he was hard but I did get a 79.8 which he rounded to a B.

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    How can you ignore the fact that Sloan bumbled away assets worth nearly a billion dollars?

    Our endowment was forever changed by giving Boone Powell and his cronies free reign over Baylor assets.

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    Depends what era you're looking at to decide that one.....

    Of all those listed McCall had the greatest impact by his nearly 20 years as President. He presided at Baylor during a tumultuous time in our nation's history and kept the university true to it's traditional beliefs while enhancing the academic environment.

    If you were to chose a Baylor person for the 20th century the hands down choice would be S P Brooks. Without his leadership there would have been no Baylor Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, and no reinstatement of the Law School. He literally took Baylor from Bible College to University.
    Last edited by GovernorBill; 03-06-07 at 10:09 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sin Bad
    George's should probably be on this list.
    Aside from piratestef's nomination of me, I think yours is the second-best one on this thread!

    --the bunny, ninjacoco herself.

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