While the Aztecs ultimately lost, it wasn’t a blowout. However, the state university which has struggled throughout its history to become a big fish in successively bigger ponds going up against one of the great white sharks of college football history is a perfect allegory for Sibelius’s struggle to encroach on Finale’s turf. This weekend one of my alma maters (San Diego State) played Notre Dame, a contest which, historically, would have seemed such a mismatch as to be impossible to schedule. Space does not remotely permit an in-depth comparison at the moment, so let’s confine ourselves to the big picture. Would that it were as simple a matter to distill it further. So, from these tests alone, it boils down to Finale or Sibelius.
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