Let's see who has the best. I'll start the ball rolling anne donovan, nancy Lieberman, justin verlander,and dave twardzik. Come on,what you got?

San Diego State University

Tony Gwynn
Marshall Faulk
Stephen Strasburg
Kawhi Leonard

Who’s playing for 2nd place? ?

UCF - Culpepper, Bortles, Milton, ... very tough between Kevin Smith and Shaquem Griffin

LaDainian Tomlinson
Bob Lilly
Sammy Baugh
Jake Arrieta

Fresno St.

Aaron Judge
Paul George
Logan Mankins
Devante Adams

tough call with Judge, Ellard, Pendleton, Neal

ILLINOIS

George Halas
Red Grange
Dick Butkus
Ray Nitchske

As much as we are generally thought of as a basketball school, our most dominant athletes have been football players. The first 3 guys were no-brainers: Halas, Grange and Butkus are straight up icons (not just great players). I thought about Deron Williams for the fourth spot - he’s the best basketball choice. However, Nitchske’s accolades are pretty insane - he’s basically the Packers counterpart to Butkus on the Bears.

(05-12-2021 09:36 PM)CitrusUCF Wrote:  UCF - Culpepper, Bortles, Milton, ... very tough between Kevin Smith and Shaquem Griffin

Asante Samuel.

FSU:

Deion Sanders, Dave Cowens, Buster Posey, Derrick Brooks

EDIT: If we were to add folks known for non-athletic pursuits, Burt Reynolds and Gabrielle Reece.

ECU

Sandra Bullock
Vince McMahon
Chris Johnson
Jeff Blake or Robert Jones

Virginia

Ralph Sampson
George Welsh
Dawn Staley
Claudio Reyna

Honorable mention to Edgar Allan Poe

Well, if we're including non-athletes on the list, Illinois would need to have Hugh Hefner and Roger Ebert competing for that last spot.

Randy Moss
Chad Pennington
Troy Brown
Byron Leftwich

(05-12-2021 08:27 PM)jaybird44 Wrote:  Let's see who has the best. I'll start the ball rolling anne donovan, nancy Lieberman, justin verlander,and dave twardzik. Come on,what you got?

Football: Dave Wilcox (NFL HOF)
Basketball: Gus Johnson (BB HOF)
Women's T&F: Allie Ostrander: 2X NCAA Steeplechase champion
Men's T&F: Jake Jacoby and Troy Kemp (NVCC HJ champ, 3X Olympic HJ)
Just Because: Torrie Wilson

(05-13-2021 11:04 AM)Bronco85 Wrote:  

(05-12-2021 08:27 PM)jaybird44 Wrote:  Let's see who has the best. I'll start the ball rolling anne donovan, nancy Lieberman, justin verlander,and dave twardzik. Come on,what you got?

Football: Dave Wilcox (NFL HOF)
Basketball: Gus Johnson (BB HOF)
Women's T&F: Allie Ostrander: 2X NCAA Steeplechase champion
Men's T&F: Jake Jacoby and Troy Kemp (NVCC HJ champ, 3X Olympic HJ)
Just Because: Torrie Wilson

Shouldn't Mt Rushmore include only players that people outside their school have heard of?

(05-13-2021 11:08 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(05-13-2021 11:04 AM)Bronco85 Wrote:  

(05-12-2021 08:27 PM)jaybird44 Wrote:  Let's see who has the best. I'll start the ball rolling anne donovan, nancy Lieberman, justin verlander,and dave twardzik. Come on,what you got?

Football: Dave Wilcox (NFL HOF)
Basketball: Gus Johnson (BB HOF)
Women's T&F: Allie Ostrander: 2X NCAA Steeplechase champion
Men's T&F: Jake Jacoby and Troy Kemp (NVCC HJ champ, 3X Olympic HJ)
Just Because: Torrie Wilson

Shouldn't Mt Rushmore include only players that people outside their school have heard of?

Sorry to offend you, Ken. I thought to go with the best, not just recent memory of Gen X. But if you like, how about Kellen More, Chandler Hutchinson, Chris Petersen, and Leighton Vander Esch.

Notre Dame's Mt. Rushmore:

1) Football coaches:

Knute Rockne, Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian, Lou Holtz


2) Football players:

Joe Montana, Alan Page, Jerome Bettis, Rocket Ismail


3) Other:

George Wendt, Condoleezza Rice, Alan Page (Minn. Chief Justice), Hannah Storm, Regis Philbin, Phil Donahue.

(05-13-2021 11:20 AM)Bronco85 Wrote:  

(05-13-2021 11:08 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(05-13-2021 11:04 AM)Bronco85 Wrote:  

(05-12-2021 08:27 PM)jaybird44 Wrote:  Let's see who has the best. I'll start the ball rolling anne donovan, nancy Lieberman, justin verlander,and dave twardzik. Come on,what you got?

Football: Dave Wilcox (NFL HOF)
Basketball: Gus Johnson (BB HOF)
Women's T&F: Allie Ostrander: 2X NCAA Steeplechase champion
Men's T&F: Jake Jacoby and Troy Kemp (NVCC HJ champ, 3X Olympic HJ)
Just Because: Torrie Wilson

Shouldn't Mt Rushmore include only players that people outside their school have heard of?

Sorry to offend you, Ken. I thought to go with the best, not just recent memory of Gen X. But if you like, how about Kellen More, Chandler Hutchinson, Chris Petersen, and Leighton Vander Esch.

I'm neither offended nor Gen X. I've just never heard of those people and I've been following college sports for 65 years or so. It's telling that you had to parenthetically give a clue what sport they played. Turns out the first guy played for Boise Junior College according to Wikipedia.

Cincinnati

Oscar Robertson (hoops), Sandy Koufax (baseball), Tony Trabert (tennis- won 3/4 of the Grand Slam tournament in 1955), Ted Corbett (Godfather of Long Distance Running in the US- Olympic medal winner in the ‘54 Olympics.

Alums who made their mark in coaching- Urban Meyer, Miller Huggins (Manager of the fabled Murderer’s Row- NY Yankees) and Ed Jucker.

Non-sports: William Howard Taft, US Vice President Charles Dawes, Salmon P. Chase, Earl Hamner (The Waltons), Vinod Dham (father of the pentium processor)

(05-12-2021 09:36 PM)CitrusUCF Wrote:  UCF - Culpepper, Bortles, Milton, ... very tough between Kevin Smith and Shaquem Griffin

Tacko Fall towers over all of them, LOL.

(05-13-2021 08:14 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  ILLINOIS

George Halas
Red Grange
Dick Butkus
Ray Nitchske

As much as we are generally thought of as a basketball school, our most dominant athletes have been football players. The first 3 guys were no-brainers: Halas, Grange and Butkus are straight up icons (not just great players). I thought about Deron Williams for the fourth spot - he’s the best basketball choice. However, Nitchske’s accolades are pretty insane - he’s basically the Packers counterpart to Butkus on the Bears.

Ray Nitchske is IMO one of the most underrated players of all time. He wasn't when he was playing, everyone recognized him as the key player on a defense with more Hall of Famers than any other and that won five championships in seven years (it took the Brady-Belichik Patriots 17 years to do that). In 1969, the NFL selected him as the greatest linebacker of the first 50 years of pro football.

But over time, he's kind of dimmed from view. Not sure why. But worthy of a place on any Rushmore, so glad you picked him. :)