(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?

Michelle McCool didn't make the FSU list.

University of Houston:

Guy V. Lewis
Hakeem Olajuwon
Carl Lewis
Bill Yeoman

(Those are my Top 4, anyway.)

You could easily make a case for Drexler, Case Keenum, Andre Ware, and Elvin Hayes as well.

State of Appalachia:

Dexter Coakley
Armanti Edwards
Jerry Moore
Yosef Mountaineer

(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.

The reason Illinois has been thought of as a basketball school is that among those four players the most recent to play at U of I was Butkus and he played there in 1964, before I was even born. Halas and Grange are legendary but I can't believe anyone here reading this ever saw either of them play in the NFL. I mean in those days football wasn't even football today. Today college football is the #1 college sport and the NFL is the #1 pro sport. Back in even Butkus's NFL days I'm not sure that was the case and college football in the 60's wasn't televised the way it is now. These four people are legendary but the fact that Illinois hasn't come up with anyone younger to come close to them says something about Illinois athletes since Butkus's days. I look at San Diego State's athletes and that's pretty impressive. If you did Illinois's athletes since 1973 (year I was born), what kind of list would you come up with?

Syracuse University

The GOAT- Jim Brown
Ernie Davis
Floyd Little
Dick Clark
Joe Biden

SMU

Doak Walker
Kyle Rote
Don Meridith
Eric Dickerson

Many others including Craig James, Forrest Gregg, Raymond Berry, Emanuel Sanders, Jerry Levias, etc.

(05-12-2021 09:17 PM)SDSUguy Wrote:  San Diego State University

Tony Gwynn
Marshall Faulk
Stephen Strasburg
Kawhi Leonard

Who’s playing for 2nd place? ?

I'd wait to see UCLA and Stanford's teams before accepting the trophy.

UCLA could be Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jackie Robinson, Troy Aikman and Jackie Joyner-Kersee?

Stanford could go with Tiger Woods, John Elway, John McEnroe and Bill Walsh?

USC would have a pretty stout group too.

Alabama State University

Woody McCorvey
Tavaris Jackson
Isaiah Crowell
Reggie Barlow
Tytus Howard
Tauheed K. Epps ---Better known as 2 Chainz


Non sports


Ralph David Abernathy
Rosa Parks
Fred David Gray
Erskine Hawkins Fred Shuttlesworth
Rickey Smiley

Georgetown:

JT Jr.

Pat Ewing
Sleepy Floyd
Allen Iverson
Alonzo Mourning

Hon. Mention:

Dikembe
Mike Sweetney
Reggie Williams
Al Blozis- NFL all decade player in the 40s who died in WWII. Inductee to the college football and NCAA T&F Halls of Fame.

Non sports:

Clinton, Scalia, George Mitchell, current Kings of Jordan and Spain. A couple other US government types.

Paul Tagliabue.

Bradley Cooper, Carl Reiner.

DFW Hoya can probably add a few more

Most Famous Athletes who have played for Denver:
Hockey: Glenn Anderson '79 (Hockey Hall of Fame)
Baseball: Dan Schatzeder '74 (Baseball World Series Winning Pitcher '87)
Basketball: Vince Boryla '49 (Olympic Gold, NBA all star, NBA Coach/exec)
Football: Sam Etcheverry '51 (NFL QB, CFL Hall of Fame)

Honorable mention athletes:
Sinbad (played hoops for Denver but more famous as comic).
Jerome Biffle -track, Gold Medal, long jump, 1952 Olympics
Hockey Players (75 in NHL): Some include Keith Magnuson, Paul Stastny, Craig Patrick, Peter MacNab, Kevin Dineen, Tyler Bozak, Matt Carle, Will Butcher, Troy Terry

Famous Athletes/Coaches who got a Denver degree, but did who not play on Denver teams while in school
-Gregg Popovich (Basketball) Masters Degree '77
-Floyd Little (FB Hall of Fame), Masters Degree '75
-Michelle Kwan (Figure Skater), Bachelors Degree '09
-Suzy Chaffee (skiier, famous in 70s as 'Suzy Chapstick' TV model)

Most Famous Non-Athletes
-Condoleezza Rice (BA and PhD). US Secy of State under GW Bush
-Neil Simon (Muliple Tonys/Oscars Awards) screenwriter
-Mohammad Zarif, Current Foreign Minister of Iran
-Paul Laxalt, longtime US Senator and Governor (R-Nev)

Southern University and A/M College

Lou Brock .............. MLB Hall of Fame

Mel Blount .............. NFL Hall of Fame

Harold Carmichael .... NFL Hall of Fame

Aeneas Williams ....... NFL Hall of Fame

(05-13-2021 11:42 AM)TerryD Wrote:  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.

You forgot Rudy.

University of Louisville

Football

Johnny Unitas
Lamar Jackson
Tom Jackson
Joe Jacoby (edges out Otis Wilson)

Basketball

Wes Unseld
Darrell Griffith
Pervis Ellison
Russ Smith


Coaches

Denny Crum
Howard Schnellenberger
Dan McDonnell
Jeff Walz

(05-13-2021 08:41 PM)puck swami Wrote:  Most Famous Athletes who have played for Denver:
Hockey: Glenn Anderson '79 (Hockey Hall of Fame)
Baseball: Dan Schatzeder '74 (Baseball World Series Winning Pitcher '87)
Basketball: Vince Boryla '49 (Olympic Gold, NBA all star, NBA Coach/exec)
Football: Sam Etcheverry '51 (NFL QB, CFL Hall of Fame)

Honorable mention athletes:
Sinbad (played hoops for Denver but more famous as comic).
Jerome Biffle -track, Gold Medal, long jump, 1952 Olympics
Hockey Players (75 in NHL): Some include Keith Magnuson, Paul Stastny, Craig Patrick, Peter MacNab, Kevin Dineen, Tyler Bozak, Matt Carle, Will Butcher, Troy Terry

Famous Athletes/Coaches who got a Denver degree, but did who not play on Denver teams while in school
-Gregg Popovich (Basketball) Masters Degree '77
-Floyd Little (FB Hall of Fame), Masters Degree '75
-Michelle Kwan (Figure Skater), Bachelors Degree '09
-Suzy Chaffee (skiier, famous in 70s as 'Suzy Chapstick' TV model)

Most Famous Non-Athletes
-Condoleezza Rice (BA and PhD). US Secy of State under GW Bush
-Neil Simon (Muliple Tonys/Oscars Awards) screenwriter
-Mohammad Zarif, Current Foreign Minister of Iran
-Paul Laxalt, longtime US Senator and Governor (R-Nev)

I wish you guys (and I at this point) were located 1500-2000 miles east and would join the Big East. Magness is fantastic, better than RPI’s and BU’s rinks imho. DU has top notch facilities and a great fanbase. It’s made my time in Denver better overall.

(05-13-2021 11:42 AM)TerryD Wrote:  Notre Dame's Mt. Rushmore:

Joe Montana, Alan Page, Jerome Bettis, Rocket Ismail

Eh, I would have Tim Brown and Paul Hornung replace Bettis and Ismail. And I love Bettis and Ismail.

(05-13-2021 10:05 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(05-13-2021 11:42 AM)TerryD Wrote:  Notre Dame's Mt. Rushmore:

Joe Montana, Alan Page, Jerome Bettis, Rocket Ismail

Eh, I would have Tim Brown and Paul Hornung replace Bettis and Ismail. And I love Bettis and Ismail.

The rocket was marred by that block in the back call in 1989/1990?

Bettis was probably my favorite ND player ever. Roll the bowling ball downhill.

(05-13-2021 10:16 PM)VCE Wrote:  

(05-13-2021 10:05 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(05-13-2021 11:42 AM)TerryD Wrote:  Notre Dame's Mt. Rushmore:

Joe Montana, Alan Page, Jerome Bettis, Rocket Ismail

Eh, I would have Tim Brown and Paul Hornung replace Bettis and Ismail. And I love Bettis and Ismail.

The rocket was marred by that block in the back call in 1989/1990?

Bettis was probably my favorite ND player ever. Roll the bowling ball downhill.

Bettis and Rocket were exhilarating players. But IMO just not as great as the two Heisman winners.

(05-13-2021 10:29 AM)GreenBison Wrote:  Randy Moss
Chad Pennington
Troy Brown
Byron Leftwich

Good choices, but I might add Hal Greer to that list to nudge Brown or Leftwich off the list.

(05-13-2021 04:05 PM)cuseroc Wrote:  Syracuse University

The GOAT- Jim Brown
Ernie Davis
Floyd Little
Dick Clark
Joe Biden

Art Monk
Marvin Harrison
Dwight Freeney
Larry Czonka
Don McPherson (who should have rcvd the Heisman)

if only Football

(05-14-2021 07:23 AM)Cnelson203 Wrote:  

(05-13-2021 10:29 AM)GreenBison Wrote:  Randy Moss
Chad Pennington
Troy Brown
Byron Leftwich

Good choices, but I might add Hal Greer to that list to nudge Brown or Leftwich off the list.

Syracuse fans agree...my Mom worked for the Nats.