Mt. Rushmore and Beyond

[1974yankees]

Washington is not there solely because he was first! He was one of our greatest presidents.

That is what we have all been told since kindergarten. That is what the history books tell us. How can anyone argue with the history books.

I am sure he was one of our greatest president's but I don't have any firsthand knowledge since I wasn't living at the time.

 

[Cuango]

That is what we have all been told since kindergarten. That is what the history books tell us. How can anyone argue with the history books.

I am sure he was one of our greatest president's but I don't have any firsthand knowledge since I wasn't living at the time.

Right, and yet you quite confidently said Teddy was probably the best.
Was that firsthand knowledge? I suppose all our opinions about the past are based on books.
Being “first” doesn’t have anything to do with how great a player you were. Lobo, of course, was a great player. Just not, imo, a top five player. As for your question about the history books, I don’t have the answer to that one.
I suppose you have to try to be objective on what the sources were in any specific book and go from there?

 

[1974yankees]

Right, and yet you quite confidently said Teddy was probably the best.
Was that firsthand knowledge? I suppose all our opinions about the past are based on books.
Being “first” doesn’t have anything to do with how great a player you were. Lobo, of course, was a great player. Just not, imo, a top five player. As for your question about the history books, I don’t have the answer to that one.
I suppose you have to try to be objective on what the sources were in any specific book and go from there?

"Lobo was a great player just not top 5"

I am sure George Washington was a great President too, but maybe or maybe not top five either. Whether he was top 5 or not is very subjective.

However, Old George probably deserves to be on MT. Rushmore because he was literally the "founder of our country"....

As for Lobo, I didn't say she was "top 5", but I do believe she put Uconn on the map more than anyone else. Sure there were good players before her (before my time, so I didn't see them)...

However, it was Lobo that propelled us into a National Power House. (She might be the Babe Ruth of Uconn basketball)

Without Lobo we were NOT winning our first National title. Sure we had Jen, Sales and Waters but it was Lobo who put us over the top...

So she deserves to be on the Top 10 "MT. Rushmore" by default.

That is how I see it.