(06-10-2013 12:08 PM)randaddyminer Wrote:  great thread!!! I saw this on the nbc sports channel, too and was thinking it would be a perfect off season thread here.

Don Haskins, Nate "tiny" Archibald, Bob Beamon and Don Maynard

Haskins
Archibald
Jim Barnes
Charlie Brown

My bromance with Barnes continues. He, along with Archibald, might be the best player in UTEP history. I think he's the most important. I'm not convinced that 66 would have happened if he didn't come to TWC in 62.

Charlie Brown, for those of you who might not know, a pre-Haskins basketball player who was the first integrated athlete to play in the former Confederacy. Rushmore is for something historic, so that why I'd put him there.

Beamon and Maynard are probably the other two choices. I think most of their accomplishments came after there UTEP careers, though.

(06-10-2013 10:59 AM)CrownRoyal Wrote:  Leo Jenkins, Terry Holland, Pat Dye, Keith LeClair.

All were admins or coaches.

Roy Orbision, Pat Boone, Phyllis George and Norah Jones (in a black negligee')!

Leo Jenkins, Terry Holland, Steve Logan, Keith LeClair

"Mean" Joe Greene, Abner Haynes, Don January, and... Paul Blake

(06-10-2013 06:42 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  "Mean" Joe Greene, Abner Haynes, Don January, and... Paul Blake

And Kevin Von Erich!

Lengyel, Chaump, Donnan, Pruett

and inscribed underneath said mountain

"From Ashes to Glory"

Lengyel helped rebuild it, and the other three made it special. Having players on there is nice, but without the vision of those coaches we would not have been what we are, or, more aptly, were.

WOW, good thread.

I will have to think about this one for a while.


And would it be limited to athletes or are coaches and administrators in the mix as well?

(06-10-2013 06:17 PM)Bleeds_Purple Wrote:  Leo Jenkins, Terry Holland, Steve Logan, Keith LeClair

add Clarence Stasavich to make an even five

Football only:
Thad Vann, Jeff Bower, Ray Guy, and Brett Favre

alternates: Bobby Collins, Reggie Collier, Reed Green and Adalius Thomas

UTSA:

Lynn Hickey
Larry Coker
Eric Soza
(and the last one is a difficult pick)
Triston Wade

Wade is one of my favorite players and he made a ton of plays for UTSA. He finished the year with 74 tackles, 4 interceptions, 4 forced fumbles and 2 fumble recoveries. He made the all WAC team. He seemed to always be around the ball.

LaTech
Terry Bradshaw
Karl Malone
Willie Roaf
Leon Barmore

Larry Finch
Penny Hardaway
Fred Smith
Spook Murphy

Boots Donnelly, Dean Hayes (current track coach- head coach since 1965), Chris Massaro, Jimmy Earle


Q from a ParrotHead : Does Buffett give back to Southern Miss ?

(06-10-2013 07:00 PM)Bleeds_Purple Wrote:  

(06-10-2013 06:42 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  "Mean" Joe Greene, Abner Haynes, Don January, and... Paul Blake

And Kevin Von Erich!

"Stone Cold" Steve Austin also played for UNT.

(06-09-2013 10:18 PM)MU ATO Wrote:  

As far as players, yes. If you include coaches, I'd take Pruett over Brown.

It can be coaches and players from any sport.

Don Haskins, Nolan Richardson, Nate Archibald, Tim Hardaway

(06-11-2013 06:31 PM)MarshallHerdFanz Wrote:  It can be coaches and players from any sport.

I refuse to accept these terms.

Bonnie Cone
Dale Halton
Mac Everett
Jerry Richardson

It's not about Championships or fame, it's about the fact that we wouldn't be where we were today without those people. We're a very young University with an even younger athletics program, and our Mount Rushmore is built by those that built our facilities and programs.

Besides, the most prominent athlete to come from Charlotte fosters nothing but bitterness towards us. We'll send him a wallet-sized photo of our Mount Rushmore.

For Tulsa I would select Glen Dobbs, Jerry Rhome, Howard Twilley, and Steve Largent.