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(10-07-2021 07:52 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  Duh

clt is out of points, but this is the best

(10-07-2021 07:52 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  Duh

Did ODU steal the ideal from Judy or did Judy get it from ODU...

George Jung, the cocaine smuggler who was depicted by Johnny Depp on the movie Blow, attended Southern Miss for a short time on a football scholarship. His matriculation was cut sort when he discovered his talent for moving product. He became associated with Pablo Escobar. He made and lost a fortune in the drug trade. The rest is history. He passed away this past summer.

(10-08-2021 12:24 AM)born in the burg Wrote:  George Jung, the cocaine smuggler who was depicted by Johnny Depp on the movie Blow, attended Southern Miss for a short time on a football scholarship. His matriculation was cut sort when he discovered his talent for moving product. He became associated with Pablo Escobar. He made and lost a fortune in the drug trade. The rest is history. He passed away this past summer.

WINNER

(10-06-2021 02:08 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  

Vonetta Flowers - In 2002 Winter Olympics, Flowers became the first African American and the first black athlete from any country to win a gold medal at a Winter Olympics. Flowers was a star sprinter and long jumper at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and originally aspired to make the U.S. Summer Olympic Team.

What sport? Switching from sprinter and long jumper to any winter sport is cool, I'm just curious what she switched to.

Yolanda Evette Griffith (born March 1, 1970) is an American professional basketball hall of fame player who played in both the ABL and WNBA. (Wiki)

She was offered a scholarship to play for the women's basketball team at the University of Iowa, but had to cancel it after she gave birth to her daughter, Candace.

Afterward, she attended Palm Beach Junior College in Lake Worth, Florida, where she earned Junior College All-America honors in 1990-91.[2] She later transferred to Florida Atlantic University, which was then a Division II school, where she graduated in 1993, earning Kodak Division II Player of the Year honors. (Wiki)

(10-08-2021 07:47 AM)Luckyshot Wrote:  

(10-06-2021 02:08 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  

Vonetta Flowers - In 2002 Winter Olympics, Flowers became the first African American and the first black athlete from any country to win a gold medal at a Winter Olympics. Flowers was a star sprinter and long jumper at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and originally aspired to make the U.S. Summer Olympic Team.

What sport? Switching from sprinter and long jumper to any winter sport is cool, I'm just curious what she switched to.

bobsled

https://nsjonline.com/article/2018/01/ch...alternate/

clt says cusa is a bobsled conference

(10-08-2021 04:58 PM)UAB Schnauzer Wrote:  

(10-08-2021 07:47 AM)Luckyshot Wrote:  

(10-06-2021 02:08 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  

Vonetta Flowers - In 2002 Winter Olympics, Flowers became the first African American and the first black athlete from any country to win a gold medal at a Winter Olympics. Flowers was a star sprinter and long jumper at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and originally aspired to make the U.S. Summer Olympic Team.

What sport? Switching from sprinter and long jumper to any winter sport is cool, I'm just curious what she switched to.

bobsled

I can guess the movie that might have inspired her to try that sport :)

(10-06-2021 12:55 PM)Blue Raider Dave Wrote:  [quote='Ewglenn' pid='17706369' dateline='1633528009']
I was thinking about the Charlotte/USM fans talking about the beers their schools brew. What something different that your school does? At MTSU we have a large dairy operation and you can purchase chocolate milk. They show up to our local market and sell it.

Also several noteworthy entertainers attended Middle Tennessee. Country star Chris Young, Lady Antebellum lead singer Hillary Scott and Amy Lee, lead singer for Evanescence.
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Well. MT is mostly well known for not being very interesting. But we are located at the exact geographic center of Tennessee. We house the Charlie Daniels Veterans Center and maintain Artifacts from the Possum George Jones as well as all of the historical records of Alum (and former VP Al Gore's late Dad) Senator Albert Gore Sr.

(10-08-2021 05:07 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  https://nsjonline.com/article/2018/01/ch...alternate/

clt says cusa is a bobsled conference

Bob Olesen, Briauna Jones' T&F Coach at CLT, was on the 1998 two-man Olympic boblsed team in Nagano, Japan.

(10-08-2021 08:50 PM)Nugget49er Wrote:  

(10-08-2021 05:07 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  https://nsjonline.com/article/2018/01/ch...alternate/

clt says cusa is a bobsled conference

Bob Olesen, Briauna Jones' T&F Coach at CLT, was on the 1998 two-man Olympic boblsed team in Nagano, Japan.

Sam McGuffie

Football, track, rugby, bobsled

Middle Tennessee alumn, James Buchanan, won the Nobel Prize in Economics as an Austrian School economist. And former MT professor, Mohammed Yunus, also won the Nobel Prize in Peace for his work in micro-finance.

Essentially, our McWilliams College of Business is a Nobel-producing machine. Eyeballing you, Rice.

(10-09-2021 08:41 AM)TruBlu Wrote:  Middle Tennessee alumn, James Buchanan, won the Nobel Prize in Economics as an Austrian School economist. And former MT professor, Mohammed Yunus, also won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in micro-finance.

Essentially, our McWilliams College of Business is a Nobel-producing machine. Eyeballing you, Rice.

This what you need?

Just thought of another one for WKU. Mitch McDeere (played by Tom Cruise) in the movie "The Firm" based on the John Grisham novel was a WKU alumni (accounting undergrad alum before going to Harvard Law).

WKU is in the book, but it's sadly not brought up in the movie.

(10-06-2021 12:43 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  Some of the famous and successful people to attend Marshall:

Billy Crystal (1 semester)- Came to Marshall on a baseball scholarship. Marshall dropped baseball the next semester and he left to attend NYU.

Soupy Sales- Known for The Soupy Sales Show and Lunch with Soupy Sales in the 1950s early 60s.

Conchata Ferrell- Best known for Berta on Two Half Men

Brad Dourif (2 Years)- A voice actor best known as the voice of Chucky from Child's Play

Lea Ann Parsley- 1998 Silver medal winner in Skeleton

Tammie Greene- WPGA player

Larry Coyer- Long time NFL D Cood. was a College and NFL coach from 1965-2014

Joe Johns- A news correspondent for NBC, ABC, the TODAY show and CNN.

Homer Hickam (1 year 1/2) Was going to Marshall and studing engineering. Marshall dropped the engineering school and he transfered to VA Tech. Known for his memoir Rocket Boys and the 1999 movie October Sky

Brad D Smith- President of 3 companies, two of which were fortune 500, the last being of Intuit from 2008-2018.

Michael W Smith- A Broadway singer that has been the part of more than 40 musicals.

So Billy Crystal is y’all’s John Carpenter

Love October Sky, great movie.

(10-09-2021 09:31 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(10-09-2021 08:41 AM)TruBlu Wrote:  Middle Tennessee alumn, James Buchanan, won the Nobel Prize in Economics as an Austrian School economist. And former MT professor, Mohammed Yunus, also won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in micro-finance.

Essentially, our McWilliams College of Business is a Nobel-producing machine. Eyeballing you, Rice.

This what you need?

Five Nobel Lauerates AND Bun B ?!

Drops mic.

(10-09-2021 11:58 AM)topper1296 Wrote:  Just thought of another one for WKU. Mitch McDeere (played by Tom Cruise) in the movie "The Firm" based on the John Grisham novel was a WKU alumni (accounting undergrad alum before going to Harvard Law).

WKU is in the book, but it's sadly not brought up in the movie.

Grisham likes to mention various schools in his books. The Julia Roberts character in The Pelican Brief is a Tulane Law School student I think (?), and I want to say one of his books features a Rice alum (maybe The Runaway Jury - it's been a long time since I've read it and I just don't remember). He's from Mississippi, so I have to think USM would be mentioned in one of his books?

I was looking up the Grisham-Rice connection and I can't find it anywhere online. But I do see that the Landry character in Friday Night Lights ends up going to Rice. Knowing Rice football, he probably blew out his knee early in his Rice career and ends up on a medical hardship scholarship is my guess.

UTSA is known as the Harvard of N[/align]orthwest Bexar County.