Does anybody edit the history they are putting on the website? This is embarrassing to read. I just happened to click on a few players while looking up something else last night. This is for Bill Backensto - which is pretty impressive. Read it and try to count the number of errors in it. I didn't cut it off at the end either.

Bill Backensto lettered in basketball as a safeguard in 1965-67 and captained the 1966-67 team to the best record ever achieved by a Mid-American Conference team (23-2), to UT's second ever MAC basketball title, and to the NCAA tournament after considerable national publicity when the team began the season with 14 consecutive wins. He was first-team All-MAC in both 1965 and 1967. Bill Backensto has the 3rd best scoring average for a sophomore (18.3 ppg.) in UT history, the 10th best career scoring average (15.1 ppg.), and the 13thth best in UT history, struck out 201 batters (4th best total in UT history), and pitched 223.3 innings (4thth best such mark in our history. Bill captained the baseball team the same year he was basketball captain. In spite of virtual year-round athletic competition, he graduated summa *** laude from the College of Engineering with a major in engineering physics after having achieved nearly a perfect 4.0 average for all academic work. He went on to earn his master's and Ph. D. degrees in physics and has been employed for many years as a research physicist with the Hughes Air craft Corporation and is currently the director of the firm's Carlsbad, California, research center. highest total of points (1,104). Backend shot .506 from the field for his career, .734 from the foul line, and had one of the highest rebounding averages (5.4 per game) of any UT guard in history. He also lettered in baseball three times (1965-66-67) as a pitcher. He had a career ERA of 2.82, 5 highest total). Won 14 career games (the seventh highest total in UT history), in spite of playing with some of the poorer teams, record wise, in our history. Walked only 0.39 batters per inning in his career, the 6

Even with the obvious need for brevity should have a better job of copy editing IMO. He is an example of a true scholar athlete in the highest sense.

You are right , this needs improved soon. Hopefully somebody who reads this board can make it happen.

Anyone have any idea where Backensto is now?

I thought I was missing some commas. Can I have some of them back?

(03-29-2012 02:15 PM)rkt Wrote:  Anyone have any idea where Backensto is now?

It says in the bio that he is "a research physicist with the Hughes Air craft Corporation and is currently the director of the firm's Carlsbad, California, research center."

Air craft, two words??? or Aircraft, one word????

(03-29-2012 02:46 PM)Rocketime Wrote:  

(03-29-2012 02:15 PM)rkt Wrote:  Anyone have any idea where Backensto is now?

It says in the bio that he is "a research physicist with the Hughes Air craft Corporation and is currently the director of the firm's Carlsbad, California, research center."

I think the bio is pretty old but I believe he is still in Ca.

IMO, Backensto provided the maturity and leadership that made the 1966-67 team successful. After he graduated it seemed he took the maturity and leadership with him and the team underachieved for the next two years.

I like these subtle typos:

"....13thth best in UT history, struck out 201 batters (4th best total in UT history), and pitched 223.3 innings (4thth best such mark ....)

13thth and 4thth - reminds me of Eddie Murphy talking about big breastesses....

Also didn't know his nickname was "Backend" "Backend shot .506 from the field for his career,...."


Would be a good exam test question for junior high kids to pick out the number of errors in the bio. You would destroy a kid by telling him he had to diagram a couple of those sentences (if they even do that in school anymore...)