While I was browsing through the Baylor Lariat to find an article that uses quotes in an effective manner and I came across an article called BU to honor years at The Case. The article informs the reader about the Baylor Alumni Network, the Baylor “B” Association and Baylor Athletics’ plan to honor those who had the opportunity to play in Floyd Casey Stadium as it is the final season Baylor Football will compete there. They decided to celebrate a different decade of the history at Floyd Casey at each home game. The following quote is effective because it summarizes what the purpose of honoring the previous years at Floyd Casey: “We came up with the idea last spring just as a way to commemorate previous players and say goodbye to The Case,” Fertsch said. The article said how Baylor has been honor past players by decade starting with the 21^st century first. This quote informs the reader about what the plans for this weekend will be: “For our third game, which is going to be our third decade reunion, we will celebrate players from the 1980s,” Abercrombie said. “This decade included several bowl games and a conference championship. Many of those guys went on to play in the National Football League and we’re expecting them back as well.” I think this quote is valuable because if you think about the main audience of the Lariat it is mainly students. Clearly, the majority of students do not know about the football teams from the 1980s but the quote does a great job to give the students background of the teams.

Personally, I would only want to be quoted in a newspaper if it was for softball. Otherwise, I feel like the chances of me saying something wrong is highly probable. But if I had no other chose but to be an interviewee, I would choose my words carefully.