With the passing of Stan Gibbs, a few people have contacted me online and offline about a Hall Of Fame of sorts for him and the handfull of others that might be appropriate.
OK - if we put together a HOF or Memorial Page, how would we want to do it. I can certainly think of a couple deserving people if it were a memorial page but a local scene HOF might not be a bad thing either, and you don't need to move onto the next world to be in.
H.O.F. might be the Stan Gibbs and the Bob Ponds and the Woolners and Murats of the world. How would we chose who is in ? What also gives some of us the credibility (thinking myself on this) to promote someone as a Hall Of Famer? All I am is a semi competent angler that happens to have some semi competant computer skills - hardly the qualifications necessary to elevate people to the H.O.F. What would make S-B, as an entity, an expert authority to do this? I ask this as though we can certainly have a HOF page, any true HOF page must have some platform of undeniable credibility to it.
Sure, picking a Gibbs or a Pond is easy and hard to argue with but there might be times when picking someone in the top 5% might still be someone on the margins of the Hall Of Fame. Charlie Cinto? Yeh, he's probably in but what about someone like Tim Coleman? In or Out? (Personally I think he's in). It's easy to say this guy or that guy but it can't be easy if it is too have any sense of credibility to it.
So, I'm looking for comments, opinions
, and suggestions