Hall of Fame for Adams and Magness

[wushock]

Since when cant we go back before the 1980's. Just because you guys weren't born yet don't mean we didn't have some good basketball and football players then. If you dont think Jayson Perez belongs just as much as Jayson Adams something is wrong with you. There are numerous former shocker basketball and football players more worthy than him. I agree he made all american 1st team is senior year, however, his stats weren't hall of fame mention the other years he played.

[McShocker]

Since when cant we go back before the 1980's. Just because you guys weren't born yet don't mean we didn't have some good basketball and football players then. If you dont think Jayson Perez belongs just as much as Jayson Adams something is wrong with you. There are numerous former shocker basketball and football players more worthy than him. I agree he made all american 1st team is senior year, however, his stats weren't hall of fame mention the other years he played.

I have a hard time believing that any school in the country keeps All-Americans out of their school hall-of-fame. As much as I liked Jason Perez, and think he'll be a Shocker HOF someday, to say he is more deserving than an AA is just plain wrong. We seem to be so spoiled by the success of the baseball program that AA quality players sometimes aren't given the respect they're due.

IF your argument is based on Adams vs Perez, I can see your point, but I disagree. If you have a problem with Adams, I don't understand why you think an AA shouldn't be in the HOF. If you think there are athletes from pre-1980 who should be in before Adams, I would need to know specifically who you mean. The football team was a perennial loser. I know a lot of people think Elmore should be in. He was before my time, so I don't know about him, but I would not put him in instead of an AA.

[wushock]

Like I said you did not know what was going on before the 80's

[wushock]

Since 1993 of the 28 inductees 18 of them are baseball players. I believe other sports at WSU surely have someone deserving. Football players Miller Farr, Jumpy Geathers weren't too bad. Leonard Kelly in basketball. Coach Gene Smithson deserves to be in. I am only saying its time to take a break from the baseball players

[The Mad Hatter]

Like I said you did not know what was going on before the 80's

What are you talking about? What does anything before the 80's have to do with this discussion? All of the great basketball players before and during the 80's have already been eligible to be in the HOF and a large number have been inducted.

The current induction classes are composed of those who have more recently become eligible after having completed their careers a prescribed time ago. Therefore it is mostly players from the 90's that are being considered because those are the ones becoming eligible.

If you think that there have been basketball players that have been snubbed (other than Perez, and I agree he should be in) bring them up, but even if there are some that have been overlooked, it should surprise no one that baseball, which has had more success than basketball with a larger roster, will have a lot of HOF inductees.

[Cdizzle]

Since 1993 of the 28 inductees 18 of them are baseball players. I believe other sports at WSU surely have someone deserving. Football players Miller Farr, Jumpy Geathers weren't too bad. Leonard Kelly in basketball. Coach Gene Smithson deserves to be in. I am only saying its time to take a break from the baseball players

When did they change the HOF requirements to "not too bad"? This argument must be the same one that the Valley office has every year when they are picking players of the week during baseball season; "well, they're clearly the best choice, but we've already given it to them so many times."

I am not saying that there are not others that should make the HOF, but to argue against these clear-cut AA-types seems a little ridiculous. This isn't the "nice guys that tried hard, and were better than some other people" award show.