The Alumni Bracket

[LordJeffBuck]

The Alumni Bracket

The Wall Street Journal took the teams in the NCAA tournament, as seeded, and "played" the games as if each team was comprised of the school's influential alumni instead of the actual players. The criteria for selection of alumni was made in accordance with "a proprietary statistic called Gross Overall Fame (GOF), which was based on a complex algorithm that we'd prefer not to explain at this time." In other words, they made the selections more or less at random.

As you might imagine, Harvard is the odds on favorite to win this tournament, with a team comprised of:

1. Theodore Roosevelt
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. John F. Kennedy
4. John Adams
5. Bill Gates

There was no room for such notables as Mark Zuckerberg, Matt Damon, Yo-Yo Ma, Ben Bernanke, John Roberts, Henry Kissinger, Al Gore, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

Ohio State's team was pretty weak, with:

1. Dwight Yoakum
2. Roy Lichtenstein
3. R.L. Stine
4. James Thurber
5. Richard Lewis

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Lichtenstein and Thurber can stand up to any two on any school's list. The other three are head scratchers.

Wisconsin is pretty strong though
Wisconsin (2)Frank Lloyd Wright, architect
Charles Lindbergh, aviator
Dick Cheney, former vice president of the U.S.
Saul Bellow, writer, “Herzog”
John Muir, naturalist/author

I'm not sure that I'd consider Cheney a real alumnus since he just used the university to hide out in a Ph.D program to avoid the draft, walking away from it right after the draft was ended. He should be on Wyoming's list.

 

[Thump]

The Alumni Bracket

The Wall Street Journal took the teams in the NCAA tournament, as seeded, and "played" the games as if each team was comprised of the school's influential alumni instead of the actual players. The criteria for selection of alumni was made in accordance with "a proprietary statistic called Gross Overall Fame (GOF), which was based on a complex algorithm that we'd prefer not to explain at this time." In other words, they made the selections more or less at random.

As you might imagine, Harvard is the odds on favorite to win this tournament, with a team comprised of:

1. Theodore Roosevelt
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. John F. Kennedy
4. John Adams
5. Bill Gates

There was no room for such notables as Mark Zuckerberg, Matt Damon, Yo-Yo Ma, Ben Bernanke, John Roberts, Henry Kissinger, Al Gore, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

Ohio State's team was pretty weak, with:

1. Dwight Yoakum
2. Roy Lichtenstein
3. R.L. Stine
4. James Thurber
5. Richard Lewis

Dwight Yoakam didn't even graduate from OSU so not sure how he is on that list.

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

Dwight Yoakam didn't even graduate from OSU so not sure how he is on that list.

thats the problem with these list. They consider anyone who "attends" as being an Alumni of that school. they don't actually care if they graduate because Bill Gates wouldn't be on the list for Harvard.

 

[AKAK]

The Alumni Bracket

The Wall Street Journal took the teams in the NCAA tournament, as seeded, and "played" the games as if each team was comprised of the school's influential alumni instead of the actual players. The criteria for selection of alumni was made in accordance with "a proprietary statistic called Gross Overall Fame (GOF), which was based on a complex algorithm that we'd prefer not to explain at this time." In other words, they made the selections more or less at random.

As you might imagine, Harvard is the odds on favorite to win this tournament, with a team comprised of:

1. Theodore Roosevelt
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. John F. Kennedy
4. John Adams
5. Bill Gates

There was no room for such notables as Mark Zuckerberg, Matt Damon, Yo-Yo Ma, Ben Bernanke, John Roberts, Henry Kissinger, Al Gore, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

Ohio State's team was pretty weak, with:

1. Dwight Yoakum
2. Roy Lichtenstein
3. R.L. Stine
4. James Thurber
5. Richard Lewis

The Alumni Bracket

The Wall Street Journal took the teams in the NCAA tournament, as seeded, and "played" the games as if each team was comprised of the school's influential alumni instead of the actual players. The criteria for selection of alumni was made in accordance with "a proprietary statistic called Gross Overall Fame (GOF), which was based on a complex algorithm that we'd prefer not to explain at this time." In other words, they made the selections more or less at random.

As you might imagine, Harvard is the odds on favorite to win this tournament, with a team comprised of:

1. Theodore Roosevelt
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. John F. Kennedy
4. John Adams
5. Bill Gates

There was no room for such notables as Mark Zuckerberg, Matt Damon, Yo-Yo Ma, Ben Bernanke, John Roberts, Henry Kissinger, Al Gore, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

Ohio State's team was pretty weak, with:

1. Dwight Yoakum
2. Roy Lichtenstein
3. R.L. Stine
4. James Thurber
5. Richard Lewis

I'd have gone with:


1. Curtis LeMay (to bomb the other teams)
2. Roy Lichtenstein
3. R.L. Stine
4. James Thurber
5. Patricia Heaton's Boobs

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Scanning the Wikepedia page, my five would be:

1) Lichtenstein
2 )Thurber
3) LeMay
4) Jesse Owens

5) pick one from among Charles Kettering or for a contemporary and/or political pick, Sherrod Brown or John Kasich.

Honorable Mention: Ron O'Neil. Who? Why? You say.

Because Superfly. That's why.

 

[ScriptOhio]

The Alumni Bracket

The Wall Street Journal took the teams in the NCAA tournament, as seeded, and "played" the games as if each team was comprised of the school's influential alumni instead of the actual players. The criteria for selection of alumni was made in accordance with "a proprietary statistic called Gross Overall Fame (GOF), which was based on a complex algorithm that we'd prefer not to explain at this time." In other words, they made the selections more or less at random.

As you might imagine, Harvard is the odds on favorite to win this tournament, with a team comprised of:

1. Theodore Roosevelt
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. John F. Kennedy
4. John Adams
5. Bill Gates

How would Harvard even hope to win a tournament, JFK is the only athlete? Hell, Gates is a nerd, Adams was just 5'7", and FDR would be in a wheel chair.

 

[muffler dragon]

Ohio State's team was pretty weak, with:

1. Dwight Yoakum
2. Roy Lichtenstein
3. R.L. Stine
4. James Thurber
5. Richard Lewis

Need more Li'l Jon

 

[Jagdaddy]

Where the hell's Tug Speedwell on that list? Also, I'm unconvinced that Jack Nicklaus, Les Wexner, and Jesse Owens, and surely many more, are less influential by any measure than Richard Lewis.