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HOF football/basketball players from small time colleges

GoldenageGoldenage Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited November 29, 2022 12:55PM in Sports Talk

Example

Larry Bird. Indiana State

Sweetness. Jackson State

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  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Clyde Frazier - Southern Illinois

    #LetsGoSwitzerlandThe Man Who Does Not Read Has No Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read. The biggest obstacle to progress is a habit of “buying what we want and begging for what we need.”You get the Freedom you fight for and get the Oppression you deserve.
  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,179 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Scottie Pippen.

    Dennis Rodman.

    Earl Monroe.

  • MaywoodMaywood Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lyle Alazado, Yankton College/South Dakota, which closed in 1984 and is currently the site of a Federal Prison. :D

  • LandrysFedoraLandrysFedora Posts: 2,209 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Charles Haley, James Madison

  • JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 11,901 ✭✭✭✭✭

    John Randle, Texas A&M Kingsville.

    Division ll, undrafted.

    2013,14 and 15 Certificate Award Winner Harmon Killebrew Master Set and Master Topps Set
  • BullsitterBullsitter Posts: 5,744 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Darryl Dawkins, Maynard Evans High School, Orlando Florida

  • GroceryRackPackGroceryRackPack Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭✭✭



  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,360 ✭✭✭✭✭

    How about the GOAT wide receiver.
    Jerry Rice: Mississippi Valley State.

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,179 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Moses Malone.

    Kobe Bryant.

  • GoldenageGoldenage Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dr. J. UMass

  • GoldenageGoldenage Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Greatest QB of all time

    Terry Bradshaw

  • VikingDudeVikingDude Posts: 1,358 ✭✭✭

    @Maywood said:
    Lyle Alazado, Yankton College/South Dakota, which closed in 1984 and is currently the site of a Federal Prison. :D

    What?!?! I'm in Fargo and I never knew that!!!!!

  • jay0791jay0791 Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭✭

    Calvin Murphy
    Took Niagara university to national title and made the HOF.

    I've been there its tiny.

    Collecting PSA... FB,BK,HK,and BB HOF RC sets
    1948-76 Topps FB Sets
    FB & BB HOF Player sets
    1948-1993 NY Yankee Team Sets
  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

    John Stockton Gonzaga before anyone knew where they school was.

    #LetsGoSwitzerlandThe Man Who Does Not Read Has No Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read. The biggest obstacle to progress is a habit of “buying what we want and begging for what we need.”You get the Freedom you fight for and get the Oppression you deserve.
  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Mo Cheeks - West Texas State

    #LetsGoSwitzerlandThe Man Who Does Not Read Has No Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read. The biggest obstacle to progress is a habit of “buying what we want and begging for what we need.”You get the Freedom you fight for and get the Oppression you deserve.
  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,142 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bill Russell - University of San Francisco.

    Steve

  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,142 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Steph Curry - Davidson College (named for my 5th great-grandfather, Brig Gen William Lee Davidson).

    Steve

  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,179 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Steve Nash - Santa Clara.

  • GoldenageGoldenage Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @SanctionII said:
    Moses Malone.

    Kobe Bryant.

    Thought they never went to college?

  • GoldenageGoldenage Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @SDSportsFan said:
    Bill Russell - University of San Francisco.

    Steve

    I remember USF being pretty good in the 70s. They would score a zillion points per game.

  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Goldenage said:

    @SDSportsFan said:
    Bill Russell - University of San Francisco.

    Steve

    I remember USF being pretty good in the 70s. They would score a zillion points per game.

    The Quinten Dailey years. He was with the Bulls when they drafted MJ.

    #LetsGoSwitzerlandThe Man Who Does Not Read Has No Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read. The biggest obstacle to progress is a habit of “buying what we want and begging for what we need.”You get the Freedom you fight for and get the Oppression you deserve.
  • AFLfanAFLfan Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Maywood said:
    Lyle Alazado, Yankton College/South Dakota, which closed in 1984 and is currently the site of a Federal Prison. :D

    Seems somehow appropriate. Lol

    Todd Tobias - Grateful Collector - I focus on autographed American Football League sets, Fleer & Topps, 1960-1969, and lacrosse cards.
  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,179 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lyle Alzado was a maniac of a player, both for the Broncos and later for the Raiders. He was also a heavy user of steroids to build up his muscle mass (the steroids contributed to his craziness both on and off the field). He retired from football and continued to bulk up and use steroids. If I recall, in his earlier 40's he attempted a comeback into the NFL and was even more roided out. I do not recall if he made it onto an NFL roster but I remember his comeback efforts being covered by the sports media.

    He died in his late 40's or early 50's, likely due to the damage done to his body by his use of steroids (and likely other substances).

    When he played for the Broncos there were news stories about him, including his days as a college player at Yankton College. His exploits on and off the field during college were similar to those he had as an NFL player.

  • galaxy27galaxy27 Posts: 8,065 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JoeBanzai said:

    John Randle, Texas A&M Kingsville.

    Division ll, undrafted.

    it was called Texas A&I back then

    Darrell Green went there too

    (the U i graduated from was in the same conference at the time)

    you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet

  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Where is LarryAllen?

    Larry Allen began his college football career at Butte Junior College in Oroville, Calif. before transferring to Sonoma State, a Division II school near San Francisco.

    #LetsGoSwitzerlandThe Man Who Does Not Read Has No Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read. The biggest obstacle to progress is a habit of “buying what we want and begging for what we need.”You get the Freedom you fight for and get the Oppression you deserve.
  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Goldenage said:
    Greatest QB of all time

    Terry Bradshaw

    Also Fred Dean went Louisiana Tech

    #LetsGoSwitzerlandThe Man Who Does Not Read Has No Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read. The biggest obstacle to progress is a habit of “buying what we want and begging for what we need.”You get the Freedom you fight for and get the Oppression you deserve.
  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,112 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @SanctionII said:
    Moses Malone.

    Kobe Bryant.

    Hard to be from "small-time colleges" if you never went to college at all.

  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas

    Cliff Harris and Ken Houston

    #LetsGoSwitzerlandThe Man Who Does Not Read Has No Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read. The biggest obstacle to progress is a habit of “buying what we want and begging for what we need.”You get the Freedom you fight for and get the Oppression you deserve.
  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Los Angeles Rams drafted Andy Robustelli, an end from tiny Arnold College, in the 19th round of the 1951 National Football League Draft

    And they complain about the turf nowadays.

    #LetsGoSwitzerlandThe Man Who Does Not Read Has No Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read. The biggest obstacle to progress is a habit of “buying what we want and begging for what we need.”You get the Freedom you fight for and get the Oppression you deserve.
  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,112 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Joe Dumars - McNeese St

  • firstbase23firstbase23 Posts: 459 ✭✭✭

    Damian Lillard-Weber St

    Matt

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