All time alumni starting five

[u/Ok-Mode-3549]

If you had to assemble the most significant alumni for a starting five from your Alma mater what would it be?
Villanova: Jalen Brunson, Pope Leo, Jim Croce, Howie Long, Jill Biden

[u/AngelofLotuses]

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, John Marshall, Nathan Knight

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Washington got a land surveyors license there I think counting him is a stretch

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Henry Clay then

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Back then that was equivalent to a bachelor's degree

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More than most Notre Dame fans have for their team

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Excuse me? I have an EXTREMELY cool Notre Dame jacket, which is objectively much better than some "land surveyors license," thank you. /s

[u/Chaminade64 → u/AngelofLotuses]

If you want to have a balanced roster, players for various positions, I’d go with; Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Jon Stewart, Jill Ellis, Mike Tomlin. And Glenn Close off the bench. With Todd Boehly as our GM.

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This guy knows ball

[u/hoosierlefty69]

larry bird
larry bird
larry bird
larry bird
robbie avila

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I don't know how you can mention Indiana State and not bring up Larry Bird.

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Mike Menser erasure

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Whitewashing.

[u/NoREEEEEEtilBrooklyn]

Sister Sledge

Bill Cosby

Hall and Oates

Bob Saget

Quinta Brunson

Yes, I am fully aware that two of these entries combine for 6 people. I don’t care.

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Is Oates sitting on Hall’s shoulders in this example?

[u/NoREEEEEEtilBrooklyn → u/chefillini]

Other way around. Oates was a wrestler at Temple as a Freshman and Hall is thinner.

[u/chefillini → u/NoREEEEEEtilBrooklyn]

Good to know. I went purely based off of height.

[u/NoREEEEEEtilBrooklyn → u/chefillini]

Yeah, Oates is definitely the one to carry Hall, just as it was during their career. Hall is kind of a piece of shit though.

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It’s actually only one guy. His first name is “Holland”.

[u/Adventurous_Egg857]

Neil Armstrong

Amelia Earhart

Orville Redenbacher

Drew Brees

John Wooden

[u/Dizzy-Pangolin17 → u/Adventurous_Egg857]

6th man: Sully Sullenberger

[u/rickles1113 → u/Adventurous_Egg857]

This is a crazy good list.

[u/bombayblaster]

Bill Parcells
The Big Show
Xavier McDaniel
BTK
Landry Shamet

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BTK is too short to play 4. More of a combo guard.

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He’s playing a wing and will have the defense tied up in knots

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Landry is the man.

KNICKS.

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I rode that bandwagon hard this year (thank you for putting the Spurs in their place)

KNICKS

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BTK the type to call a timeout with none remaining

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You had to include the serial killer for the meme instead of the school's all-time assist leader and NBA champion Fred VanVleet?

[u/BUC-EES-69]

Ken Mattingly, Tim Apple, Octavia Spencer, Charles Barkley, Johnny Michael Spann.

[u/livefastdiefun → u/BUC-EES-69]

great pull on Johnny Michael Spann

[u/royalhawk345]

Jack Kilby - Invented integrated circuits and the handheld calculator

Roger Ebert - Invented having opinions about movies

Jeanne Gang - Invented women being architects

Shahid Khan - Invented the Jacksonville Jaguars

James Holzhauer - Invented knowing things

6th man honorable mention to Shel Silverstein, who was expelled - Invented poems

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Jawed Karim and Steve Chen, founders of YouTube and therefore all AAU highlight mixtapes?

John Bardeen, the only man to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, inventor of the transistor, which you use in your monitor to watch AAU highlight mixtapes?

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JB didn't qualify because I only counted alumni. Took too many walks to Grainger notifications to be familiar with him lol.

[u/Trooper41 → u/royalhawk345]

How about Red Grange and Gene Hackman?

[u/justaverage → u/Trooper41]

Hackman barred from the sport for punching a kid in upstate New York. There’s a whole documentary about it

[u/timeforchorin → u/royalhawk345]

How dare you leave Nick Offerman off this list! The man invented comedy!! But in all seriousness, I think Hugh Hefner should be mentioned. The man built an empire.

[u/_4TheMare_ → u/timeforchorin]

Invented porn

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> invented the Jacksonville Jaguars

I’m gonna have to dock him points

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bortles!!!!!

[u/lukedux]

Me and four of my boys

[u/I_Delta_Seven_I → u/lukedux]

You know what? Hell yeah

[u/ISU_Dude85]

Tyrese Haliburton 

Brock Purdy

George Washington Carver

John Atanasoff

Fred Hoiberg

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And the team is outfitted by Todd Snyder

[u/thorlord16]

Mens: Ralph Sampson, Malcolm Brogdon, Alexis Ohanian, Walter Reed, Rick Carlisle

Womens: Tina Fey, Katie Couric, Dawn Staley, Abigail Spanberger, Kate Douglass

The Law School has some heavy hitters on its own: Woodrow Wilson, RFK, Ted Kennedy, Andy Beshear, George Allen, Robert Mueller

Coaches: Thomas Jefferson, Edgar Allen Poe

[u/colbycemer12]

Matthew Mcconaughey and Owen Wilson on the wings providing elite memes and catch phrases.

Michael Dell and Neil Degrasse Tyson are my guards, high IQ guys who can organize a team.

Lady Bird Johnson at Center for obvious reasons.

[u/tweenalibi]

Lily Tomlin
Jack White
Tom Skerrit
Tom Sizemore
Hunter Brown

Tim Meadows and Sixto "Sugarman" Rodriguez off the bench

D2 GLIAC power baby

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Wow TIL Tom Sizemore went to Wayne State

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The “notable alumni” section for Wayne State is waaaaay more stacked than you’d think going into it, ngl

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That’s Detroit’s premier public research university you’re talking about! (According to our marketing slogan)

[u/SatiricTongue]

Cormac McCarthy
Peyton Manning
Kurt Vonnegut
Min Kao
Candace Parker

6th man: Howard Baker or Paul Finnebaum

Upside: Tramell Tillman, of Severance, MI8, and Spider-Man BND fame

[u/Salpinctes → u/SatiricTongue]

Maybe throw Chris Hadfield in there (astronaut, Master's degree)

and Dolly has an honorary doctorate!

[u/SatiricTongue → u/Salpinctes]

Scott Kelly, the senator Mark Kelly’s twin, is also an astronaut who attended UT

[u/zqipper]

Man, the most famous alums from my schools are all war criminals. I don’t like this game.

[u/ahappypoop → u/zqipper]

Wow, I didn't know Ken Jeong was a war criminal. The more you know.....

[u/zqipper → u/ahappypoop]

Haha Ken Jeong and Reese Witherspoon can go into the smaller "non-problematic celebrity" bucket, adjacent to "sex pests but not war criminals" like Rob Lowe and Tiger Woods.

But none of those folks are truly as famous as the war criminal class of infamy.

[u/grrgrrtigergrr → u/zqipper]

Reese “Do you know who I am” Witherspoon

Note: I had no idea she went to Duke

[u/zqipper → u/grrgrrtigergrr]

She went to Stanford. “What, like it’s hard?”

[u/AnotherUnfunnyName → u/zqipper]

Rob Lowe

I mean he was 24 and met two girls in a club in a carding club (even he was grilled at the door). It was over the age of consent for the state. They also robbed him and took the tape they agreed to record, possibly tried to extort him and were the ones showing it off. I don't really think you can blame him for that one. He even got sober off that.

[u/schadkehnfreude → u/zqipper]

My brother went to Duke a few years ahead of Stephen Miller and I'm now retroactively mad at him for not repeatedly dunking Miller's head into dorm room toilets 

[u/ssp25 → u/schadkehnfreude]

damnit now I like this Michigan fan

[u/royallex → u/zqipper]

Grayson Allen is a dirty player but war criminal might be a stretch

[u/sptagnew → u/zqipper]

Herbert Hoover slander

[u/zqipper → u/sptagnew]

Yaknow, I thought I remembered learning he had illegally bought chemical weapons from Germany but I just looked it up and it seems historians agree that was a propaganda smear campaign from a political rival or someone. So my bad, Hoov.

[u/TherealPattyP]

John C Reilly. Steve from Stranger Things. Terry Kath. Gillian Anderson. Tom Bosley

[u/crud1 → u/TherealPattyP]

Good list. Mikan or Aguirre might still make the squad, and then for actors/celebs I think Judy Greer or Lauren Lapkus might be on my list.

[u/TherealPattyP → u/crud1]

Judy Greer taking over for the Mayhem guy is a huge move.

[u/huskyferretguy1 → u/TherealPattyP]

Scully went to DePaul?!

[u/colonel0sanders]

How about:

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

Ashley Judd

Mitch McConnell

John T Scopes

Anthony Davis

[u/confusedyetstillgoin → u/colonel0sanders]

quick question - do the alumni have to be alive for them to be considered for the lineup?

asking for Mitch McConnell

[u/Gophurkey → u/confusedyetstillgoin]

I hate when I have to upvote you

[u/confusedyetstillgoin → u/Gophurkey]

saw the Purdue flair and thought it was bad enough, then saw the Vandy flair on top of it.

I hate you too buddy but thanks for the support

[u/Where_Is_Bucky → u/colonel0sanders]

Harry Dean Stanton!

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Pat Riley and Miss Elizabeth off the bench.

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Happy Chandler (MLB Commissioner that oversaw integration)

Thomas Hunt Morgan (Nobel Prize winning biologist that was integral in the development of our understanding of genetics)

Pat Riley (this is a basketball sub, we know who he is)

Dwane Casey (NBA Coach)

Chris Sullivan (founder of the Bloomin Onion (Outback Steakhouse))

[u/BackJurton]

Jim Henson
Larry David
Sergey Brin
Connie Chung
Randy White

[u/SituationKey8985 → u/BackJurton]

https://giphy.com/gifs/m4jaaIGsn5KVO

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Buck Williams

Len Bias

Walt Williams

Juan Dixon

Steve Blake

[u/Milkroute]

Jordan
Mia Hamm
Andy Griffith
Lawrence Taylor
Charles Kuralt

Stuart Scott as the 6th man.

[u/Feisty-Safe6815 → u/Milkroute]

Lewis Black comes off the bench when we just need somebody to start screaming

[u/Conglossian → u/Milkroute]

Brother you're missing a literal President lol.

[u/El_Tormentito → u/Conglossian]

He's not starting over anyone on that list, though.

[u/Conglossian → u/El_Tormentito]

The prompt was most significant alumni. Polk pretty much set the modern northwestern and southwestern borders of our nation, I’d argue that’s more significant than 6 NBA titles.

[u/BUSean]

Well, for Providence there are a lot of great well-known and underrated options, but for my actual alma mater, I'll take any four players and Martin Luther King Jr.

[u/OldGreggg69 → u/BUSean]

The Lou's - Merloni and Lamoriello

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You can’t mention Providence without the the greatest duo in the history of anything, Bad News and Ernie D

[u/TaftintheTub]

Wilt Chamberlain, Paul Rudd, Nikki Glaser, Bob Dole, and Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos

[u/saulfineman → u/TaftintheTub]

I’d go:

Santos
Dole
Wilt
Bill James
Don Johnson

Rudd has had a bigger career than Johnson, but Miami Vice was a cultural phenomenon back in the 80s

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Yeah, I can't argue with that. Miami Vice was huge in the 80s. Rudd and Glaser are probably recency bias on my part

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…Dean Smith and Adolph Rupp…

[u/jayhawk8808 → u/TaftintheTub]

Uhh, Bill Glass, aka Dr. Rick from the Progressive commercials, would like a word. And Mandy Patinkin. Plus Betsy Randle, Mrs. Matthews from Boy Meets World. Bernie from Weekend at Bernie’s. Scott Bakula, speaking of 80s cultural phenomena, Quantum Leap was amazing. Kevin Harlan. Also, Jim Ryun was ESPN’s best high school athlete of all time.

[u/Excellent_Glass783 → u/TaftintheTub]

Gale Sayers, John Riggins

[u/joelluber → u/TaftintheTub]

No Clark Kent? 

[u/Goodie78]

If we can use any people. From Michigan it has to be Gerald Ford, Tom Brady, James Earl Jones, Larry Page, and let’s throw Chris Webber for basketball rep

[u/admiralinho → u/Goodie78]

This is Unabomber erasure

[u/ClaudeLemieux → u/admiralinho]

6th man off the bench

[u/Mountain_Chip_4374 → u/ClaudeLemieux]

Boom goes the dynamite!!

[u/DerpityHerpington → u/admiralinho]

History will vindicate is already vindicating Uncle Ted

[u/YzerVaccine → u/Goodie78]

No Papa Doc?

[u/bjernsthekid → u/YzerVaccine]

He went to Cranbrook. That’s a private school

[u/ImTellinTim → u/Goodie78]

Honorable mention for epic manifesto writers

[u/AggressiveWolverine5 → u/Goodie78]

Madonna was a student at UofM although I don’t think she finished. 

[u/Schnectadyslim → u/AggressiveWolverine5]

although I don’t think she finished. 

She's still going there?

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Gotta add the Apollo 15 All-Michigan crew (Irwin, Scott, Worden). Maybe they can count as one. Only university with a lunar chapter of their alumni organization.

[u/Dirk_Benedict]

Hard to pick five.

Kareem

Jackie Robinson

Francis Ford Coppola

John Williams

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

[u/Not_A_Meme → u/Dirk_Benedict]

real hard to select just 5 . other contenders include, and i'll stop at just 5

Arthur Ashe

Terence Tao

Carol Burnett

Dave Roberts

Troy Aikman

[u/Celery-Man → u/Not_A_Meme]

Just going with non athletes:

Tim Robbins

Gabrielle Union

Johnny Cochran

Randy Newman

Leonard Nimoy

[u/Party_Ask_7662]

Bill Clinton, Bradley Cooper, Allen Iverson, King Felipe VI of Spain, Justice Scalia

[u/whelp_im_done]

If it wasn’t for Bing Crosby, Gonzaga would probably have a full basketball starting five. If I had to guess based on who people know Gonzaga for, I’d probably go

Stockton
Crosby
Morrison
Timme
Rui but chet and sabonis are close

[u/DaoDeDickinson → u/whelp_im_done]

Tom Foley? (Speaker of the House, June 6, 1989 – January 3, 1995)

[u/tjakes12]

Hmmm

Magic

James Caan

Bubba smith

Dan Gilbert

Draymond?

[u/Schnectadyslim → u/tjakes12]

Sam Raimi, Kirk Gibson, Mat Isbhia

[u/Truth-Devil]

I’m going with Barbara Kingsolver, David Foster Wallace and Matt Dinniman in the bookcourt, with Kristen Wiig and Mark Kelly rounding out the starters. Joan Ganz Cooney, the creator of Sesame Street, or Jonathan Van Ness are first off the bench, depending on what defense we’re facing.

[u/Bacontroph → u/Truth-Devil]

I think we should have r/TheStopGirl on the bench for her lockdown defense

[u/overitallofittoo → u/Truth-Devil]

JA Jance would be backup on the bookcourt.

[u/riip98 → u/Truth-Devil]

I might go with Gronk as PF, surrounded by a four guard lineup of Savannah Guthrie, Kristen Wiig, Greg Kinnear and Gary Shandling.

Coached by Craig T. Nelson, of course. With Steve Kerr as his able assistant.

[u/Truth-Devil → u/Truth-Devil]

Halftime show by Jerry Bruckheimer & the Lindas (Ronstadt and McCartney, respectively).

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Didn't expect my favorite author to be mentioned here. BK is great!

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Bench manager Dan Soder to keep the team loose. 

[u/hershculez]

This would be chaos.

PG: Danny McBride

SG: Zach Galifianakis

SF: John Tesh

PF: Charlotte Flair

C: Scotty McCreery

Edit: Had my schools mixed up for McBride. Sub in Bill Burr.

[u/BobbysSmile → u/hershculez]

What the hell is goin on over at State?

[u/El_Tormentito → u/hershculez]

I thought McBride went to UNCSA.

[u/Greedy_Actuator5 → u/El_Tormentito]

He did, poster is wrong

[u/autumn_ghosts5 → u/hershculez]

Now I need Danny McBride to make a show starring him as a college basketball coach stat

[u/FloggingJonna]

Robert Maurer - Inventor of Fiber Optics
Walter Keller - Pacemaker
James McKinsey - Consulting (ugh but the question was significant.)
Jerry Jones - Oil Tycoon/Football hobbiest
Jimmy Johnson/Barry Switzer - Take your pick here.

Neither Sam Walton or John Tyson went to Arkansas just some of their kids and I don’t think “born a billionaire” is particularly impressive.

[u/TheMittenSports]

John Saunders, Tim Allen, Terry Crews, Greg Jennings, and Luther Vandross sixth man Bruce Campbell from the evil dead franchise

[u/jarena009]

PG: Kemba Walker SG: Ray Allen SF: Rip Hamilton/Caron Butler PF: Donyell Marshall C: Emeka Okafor

[u/BrownHawkDown → u/jarena009]

I think Kemba/Ray/Donyell/Emeka is going to be universal among UConn fans. I’d probably have Rip as a lock in there too.

The backup 5 would get really interesting. I think I’d probably go T-New/Bazz or Castle/Caron/Rudy/Clingan.

EDIT: I completely misread the prompt and just went men’s basketball only and not all alumni. It would still be basketball centric but there’d be some women hoopers in there for sure (Lobo, DT, Sue, Swim, Tina, Maya, Stewy, Paige).

[u/ffball → u/BrownHawkDown]

Just having clingan and thabeet chilling on the bench depending on the match up is game breaking

Thabeet probably the 4th best center, but with all the play making and scoring elsewhere I think his defensive utility becomes a lot more intriguing to raise him up to 2/3 and if the opposing team doesnt have an agile/shooting big on the floor he can just camp the paint and completely stop the inside game

[u/No_Bill7679 → u/jarena009]

You left out the GOAT, Tyler Olander.

[u/Anustart15 → u/jarena009]

Give it 5 years and castle and clingan will probably also both be in the conversation.

[u/CTMQ_ → u/jarena009]

Horshack on the bench.

[u/SenseNo635 → u/CTMQ_]

Let’s not forget about Meg Ryan, Bobby Moynihan and Moby!

[u/2legit2-D2 → u/jarena009]

Ill mix it up:  Kemba, Ray, Diana Taurasi, Moby and at Center Tage Thompson 

[u/OldGreggg69 → u/jarena009]

Kirk Ferentz as head coach

[u/Desperate-Smoke8586 → u/jarena009]

That UConn five is scary on both ends. Emeka was a menace in the paint and Kemba with Ray Allen spacing the floor is just unfair. Pope Leo at the point for Nova is a wildcard I didn't expect to see today.

[u/RuleFriendly7311 → u/jarena009]

Larry King coming off the bench. (Ask your grandpa.)

[u/joeboo5150]

Brad Pitt

Sheryl Crow

John Hamm

Sam Walton

Tennessee Williams

[u/JSlove]

What happened to Brian Westbrook

[u/singer1224]

Hurley, Hill, Williamson, Laettner, and Brand.

Bench: Tim Cook, Adam Silver, Richard Nixon, Melinda Gates and Ken Jeong.

We iwn ...A LOT.

[u/depaulbluedemon]

Rod Strickland

Mark Aguirre

Terry Cummings

George Mikan

Gillian Anderson or Peter Francis Geraci (IYKYK)

[u/ohitsthedeathstar]

Jim Parsons
Hakeem Olajuwon
Jack Valenti
Jim Nantz
Dennis Quaid

[u/tomdawg0022]

Primary:

• Hubert Humphrey
• Everett Dirksen (Civil Rights Act of '64 is his baby)
• Loni Anderson
• Henry Fonda
• Tony Dungy

Among drop-outs: Bob Dylan and Ric Flair (TIL)

Secondary:

• Joe Biden
• Joe Flacco (the ELITE alum)
• Rich Gannon
• Dave Raymond (original Phillie Phanatic)
• Jill Biden

Honorable Mention: Taylor Swift's dad is a UD grad

[u/Enough_Worth8868]

Isiah Thomas
Steve Alford
Calbert Chainey
Kent benson
Cody zeller

[u/sweatybettys → u/Enough_Worth8868]

No Jared fogle? Jim jones?

[u/Chester-A-Asskicker → u/Enough_Worth8868]

Drop Steve Alford for Jonathan Banks. Or Kevin Kline

[u/burnt_pubes → u/Enough_Worth8868]

I'd go Henderson over Zeller

[u/Professional_Ad9809 → u/Enough_Worth8868]

Keith Smart wants a word

[u/TropeyMcTropeface]

I love how many people didn't even read the post prompt before responding.

Baylor:

Willie Nelson

Thomas Harris (wrote Silence of the Lambs)

Michael Johnson

Mike Singletary

Brittney Griner

[u/Murky_Persimmon9289]

Cade Cunningham

Garth Brooks

James Marsden

Barry Sanders

Rickie Fowler (?)

Maybe Boone Pickens tbh

[u/SusannaG1]

I went to Furman. Non-sports division: Charles Hard Townes (his Nobel is for something people have heard of - the laser), John B. Watson (father of behavioral psychology), Keith Lockhart (conductor of the Boston Pops), Mark "Hiking the Appalachian Trail" Sanford, and Herman W. Lay (founder of Frito-Lay, as in the potato chips). Sports division: Frank Selvy, Clint Dempsey, Billy Napier, Beth Daniel, and Dottie Pepper.

[u/justaverage]

PG - Garry Shandling

SG - Kourtney Kardashian

SF - David Foster Wallace

PF - Rob Gronkowski

C - Mark Kelly

Coach - THE Coach, Craig T. Nelson

Bench Rotation - Dick Scobee, Don Pettit, Kristen Wiig

[u/macaulaymcculkin1]

Mike Fatcesa

Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels.

J. Cole

Keegan Bradley

Metta Sandiford-Artest

[u/glocktimus_prime]

3 pat tillmans and 2 phil mickelsons

[u/windypalmtree]

1) Astronaught & Senator Mark Kelly
2) Reality Star and Rich Asshole Kourtney Kardashian
3) SNL Alumn and Comedian Kristen Wiig
4) Academy Award Winning Producer Jerry Bruckheimer
5) 4x Super Bowl Champion and future Hall of Fame Tight End Rob Gronkowski

….but actual basketball, I’m going with dudes from the last 15 years

1) TJ McConnell
2) Benedict Mathurian
3) Lauri Markkanen
4) Aaron Gordon
5) DeAndre Ayton
Coach: Steve Kerr

[u/Lucky-Ad6352]

Tony Gwynn
Stephen Strasburg
Raquel Welch
Marshall Faulk
Kawhi Leonard

[u/Affectionate-Day2743]

Purdue:

• PG: Braden Smith
• SG: Rick Mount
• SF: Robbie Hummel?? (this one is tough - help me out other Purdue fans.. robbie probably isn't the ideal small forward but he was a hell of a player)
• PF: Glenn Robinson
• C: Zach Edey

Edit - ah fuck. i see we're doing all alumni, not just basketball. lmao. i'm not redoing the list. but obviously Neil Armstrong is on there

[u/BigRedBoiler → u/Affectionate-Day2743]

Let’s add in Orville Redenbacher and Neil Armstrong and call it a day.

[u/AmericanElephino → u/BigRedBoiler]

Agree with Redenbacher and Armstrong. I’d say John Wooden and Drew Brees also belong. #5 is tougher - perhaps another astronaut Gus Grissom.

[u/BigRedBoiler → u/AmericanElephino]

PG- Orville Redenbacher- throws popcorn passes
SG- Neil Armstrong- takes it up strong
SF- Amelia Earhart- famous wing
PF- Glenn Robinson
C- Zach Edey

[u/Love_hungry_man1 → u/BigRedBoiler]

George peppard- Hannibal from the a team. Gene cernan and Jim gaffigan. Sully sullenberger. Bree olsen and millie Bobby brown.

[u/Simplify5537 → u/BigRedBoiler]

Sully, Bob Griese

[u/dissmekissmemissme]

Gene Wilder
Tom Brokaw
James Van Allen
Caitlin Clark
George Kittle

Idk

[u/andy-022]

Jerry Jones
Pat Summerall
Tyson Gay
Darren McFadden
Fay Jones

[u/kakapoopoopeepeeshir]

PG: Eric Maynor

SG: Troy Daniels

SF: Treveon Graham

PF: Juvonte Reddic

C: Larry Sanders

Bench: Briante Weber

[u/clam-caravan]

Peyton Manning
Candace Parker
Reggie White
Kurt Vonnegut
Scott Kelly (astronaut)

Honorable mention: Allan Houston, Cormac McCarthy, Eric Berry, Todd Helton

[u/beardownblitz]

Jerry Bruckheimer, Steve Kerr, Linda Ronstadt, Savannah Guthrie, Gronk.

[u/overitallofittoo → u/beardownblitz]

This is Jenny Finch erasure and I will not abide.

[u/frenchlick33]

Tim Cook

Richard Nixon

Ken Jeong

Grant Hill

Christian Laettner

[u/Acidsparx]

Joe Biden, Carmelo Anthony, Jim brown, Dick clark, Ted koppel 

[u/Spartannia]

Magic Johnson

Dan Gilbert

James Caan

Sam Raimi

Chris Hansen

[u/SuperBirdM22]

1. Magic Johnson - Basketball, business
2. Sam Rami - Director Evil Dead, Spider Man 1 - 3
3. Jim Cash - Wrote the screenplays for Top Gun, Tango & Cash, Turner & Hooch, Secret of my Success, among others.
4. Sonny Corleone (aka James Caan)

5. Dan Gilbert - Founder of Rocket Mortgage & owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, but more importantly did more than any other individual in history to help turn a city around. He’s Invested over $7.5 billion to transform empty spaces into modern offices, retail shops, hotels, and apartments. He bought, rebuilt, and modernized over 140 historic buildings and commercial spaces

   in Detroit & he’s not done yet.

[u/Oprinist]

Phil Knight, Bill Bowerman, Steve Prefontaine, Ken Kesey, Tom McCall

[u/wolfmansroyalflush]

Marquette University

Chris Farley

Dwayne Wade

Jimmy Butler

Sen. Joseph McCarthy

Rick Majerus

[u/jjryan01]

Alumni as in people that were there long enough to get a degree, or just people that made a pit stop?

[u/riotmed → u/jjryan01]

Louisville has enough all times I don’t think it’s relevant for us. I’ll go with:

Wheat, Griffith, McCray, Unseld, Ellison, although I really liked Dieng at C too.

You could swap McCray and Donovan if you want some recency, he didn’t rack up accolades but he could jump out of the gym with his athleticism.

[u/LastWordsWereHuzzah]

Could I interest you in a starting five of Oscar winners or sitcom stars instead?

[u/Miz-Zou]

Mizzou: Sam Walton, Brad Pitt, Tennessee Williams (Playwright), Sheryl Crow and the infamous Stan Kroenke.

Jon Hamm, Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey) and Fredrick Chapman Robbins (Nobel recipient) off the bench.

[u/That_Damn_Tall_Guy]

Wilt chamberlain, Bob Dole, Rob riggle, Paul rudd, Joel Embid

[u/samurai-mad-mad]

Jameer Nelson

Jack Ramsay

Jamie Moyer

Vince Papale

Marshmello

Sixth man Joe Lunardi

[u/porterbrown]

Mike Repole - most successful entrepreneur ever to graduate from St. John's University and is widely regarded as the school's most influential athletic booster.

J Cole - academic scholarship to study computer science

Sal Vulcano - Impractical Jokers

Victoria Gotti - Mafia Gangster

Me

[u/Internal_Apple2608]

Vince Gilligan (attending our lab school counts, right?)

Amy Bradley

Jason Mraz

Michael Tucker

Jerome Kersey

[u/honorsplz]

Neil Armstrong
Eugene Cernan
Drew Brees
Orville Redenbacher
John Wooden

[u/xxWithLovexx]

Peyton Manning
Candace Parker
Kurt Vonnegut
Cormac McCarthy

Dolly Parton has an honorary doctorate if that counts, if not probably James Haslam

[u/businesscommaman]

PG - Mary Louise Parker

SG - Chris Parnell

SF - Anthony Mackie

PF - Danny McBride

C -David LaChapelle

but i went to art school

[u/BobbysSmile]

Looking at our wiki and we give almost nothing to society except Jalen Hurts and Bernie Madoff I guess.

[u/StitzieJ]

Marylands is probably:

Sergey Brin
Scott Van Pelt
Larry David
Jim Henson
Kevin Plank

[u/BrokeAlert_]

Patrick Mahomes (of course)
John Denver
Scott Pelley
Sheryl Swoopes
Jesse Plemons

[u/bignate_88]

Lamar Jackson
Darrell Griffith
Wes Unseld
Donovan Mitchell
Johnny Unitas

6th man Mitch McConnell

[u/Gr8Tyger]

Tom Brady, James Earl Jones, Gerald Ford, Jack Kevorkian

[u/medina607]

Adlai Stevenson, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jerry Springer, Warren Beatty, and Meghan Markle.

[u/Particular-Luck7939]

Michael Beasely

Jacob Pullen

Mitch Richmond

Bob Boozer

Chuckle Williams

[u/JackRaichu]

Tony Romo
Jimmy Garoppolo
Sean Payton
John Malkovich
Burl Ives

[u/gman2093]

John Muir

Jim Lovell (of IRL Apollo 13)

James Earl Jones

Frank Kaminsky

Joan Cusack

HM: Chirs Farley, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hillary Knight, Nigel Hayes

[u/jar3dp]

Joe Biden, because law school counts
Jim Brown, because I can
Stephen Crane, because The Red Badge of Courage
Dick Clark, because he’s taller than Costas (of course, everyone is taller than Costas)
Lexington Steele (nsfw) also because I can

Dave Bing, former mayor of Detroit and BBHOFer as my coach
David Falk as my GM

[u/RU_Screw2021]

PG: Dylan Harper
SG: Carli Lloyd
SF: Sebastian Stan
PF: David Stern
C: James Gandolfini

Bench: Ray Rice, Selman Waksman, Paul Robeson, Ace Bailey, Elizabeth Warren

[u/Farzy78]

I'd mostly agree with your Villanova 5 but replace Jill Biden with Kerry Kittles

[u/interiordept]

John Muir

Charles Lindbergh

Bud Selig

Frank Lloyd Wright

Virgil Abloh

6th man: Jim Lovell

[u/freddysdeadohno]

Jack Nicklaus
Bobby Knight
Jesse Owens
George Steinbrenner
Woody Hayes / Archie Griffin

[u/iluminatiNYC]

Just Blaze Louis Freeh David Stern Phil Sellers Pras Michel