All-Time IU Alumni Starting Five

[Stuhoo]

Here's an off-season IU topic if there ever were one:

Name your all-time starting five of IU alums. Not neccesarily sports alums!

I'll try:

1. Mark Cuban 
2. Mark Spitz
3. Hoagy Carmichael
4. Sherman Minton (When there's a Supreme Court Justice as a choice? Gotta add him)
5. Mike Pence

[Home Jersey]

Fun topic:

Cuban, Ernie Pyle and Booker T Jones have to be on my list.

Joe Buck another good one. 

Some other fun ones...

-John Thompson (inventor of the Tommy gun and supervised the development of the Colt .45)

-Jeff Sagarin (creator of Sagarin ratings system) 

-Johnathan Banks aka Mike Ehrmantraut from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul

Many famous IU alumni 

[Napleshoosier]

A few more names…

David  Letterman, Gayle Cook, Jane Pauley, and Sage Steele.

[Stuhoo]

22 minutes ago, Napleshoosier said:

A few more names…

David  Letterman, Gayle Cook, Jane Pauley, and Sage Steele.

[Dave from Dayton]

Somehow, it seems that Dr. Kinsey should get an 'honorable' mention. No, he wasn't an alum...so what?!

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Ernie Pyle 

 

[Hovadipo]

8 minutes ago, Dave from Dayton said:

Somehow, it seems that Dr. Kinsey should get an 'honorable' mention. No, he wasn't an alum...so what?!

He falls somewhere between 68 and 70 on my list. 

[rayl456]

Kevin Kline

[Stuhoo]

49 minutes ago, Dave from Dayton said:

Somehow, it seems that Dr. Kinsey should get an 'honorable' mention. No, he wasn't an alum...so what?!

Right there with Jared from Subway and Jim Jones?

FWIW, I have Tijan Jobe ranked higher than many of the names I'm reading.

 

[OliviaPope40]

Here's what I got from ChatGPT:

Isiah Thomas

Lilly King

George Taliaferro

Steve Alford

Calbert Cheaney

Honorable Mentions

Cody Zeller

Scott May

Mark Spitz (attended IU before transferring; not typically counted as an IU alumnus)

Amanda Beard (trained at IU)

[jermhoosierfan]

I am here to nominate the voice of sports in my childhood, Dick Enberg.

[Magnanimous]

20 hours ago, OliviaPope40 said:

Here's what I got from ChatGPT:

Isiah Thomas

Lilly King

George Taliaferro

Steve Alford

Calbert Cheaney

Honorable Mentions

Cody Zeller

Scott May

Mark Spitz (attended IU before transferring; not typically counted as an IU alumnus)

Amanda Beard (trained at IU)

Mark Spitz’s wiki says he graduated from IU in 1972.

Joe Buck didn’t graduate, and as of now, neither has Fernando…I’m sure he’ll have an IU graduate degree to his name when it’s all said and done.

[Magnanimous]

His social commentary aside, James Watson is top 5 in terms of significance.

[AZ Hoosier]

That list has to include Will Shortz... the university created a major just for him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Shortz

In addition to names already mentioned, I'd add:

• Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia co-founder)
• Michael Higgins (president of Ireland)