Famous Rutgers Alumni

[SoCalwarrior]

Figured I start yet another board tradition and post a photo collection of our upcoming opponent's famous alumni.  Starting with Rutgers.  Feel free to add to the list if I miss someone important.

How many can you name?

[NateDoggMarq]

I dont know if I would want Ally McBeal as a listed great alumni

But Rudie Huxetable  Fantastic!!!

[SoCalwarrior]

Not great, but famous.

Actually that's writer/activist/rapper Sista Souljah, but I see the Huxetable resemblance.

And for you saints out there, the scantily clad woman at the bottom attended Rutgers on scholarship with a double major in Business and Japanese.  She would later go on to win the AVN's Female Performer of the Year.

[bma725]

Compared to a couple of the female alums pictured, Ally McBeal is a distinguished alum.  When your other choices are reality TV drunk or aging pornstar...suddenely bad TV actress doesn't look so bad.

[rocky_warrior]

I don't know what's worse - that I immediately identified Asia Carrera, or that I spent time and looked up her bio - she's quite the scholar (really!) 

http://www.answers.com/topic/asia-carrera

[bma725]

I don't know what's worse - that I immediately identified Asia Carrera, or that I spent time and looked up her bio - she's quite the scholar (really!) 

http://www.answers.com/topic/asia-carrera

What's worse is not only did I know it was her, but I knew that she's technically not an alum.  She attended Rutgers, but didn't graduate.

[spiral97]

wow.. she created her own unreal tournament skins?? wow..

she kind of reminds me Summer Williams, the houston cheerleader who is an aerospace engineer for the Jacobs Engineering Group (NASA's main scientific support contractor) - or, quite literally, a rocket scientist.

[spiral97]

I don't know what's worse - that I immediately identified Asia Carrera, or that I spent time and looked up her bio - she's quite the scholar (really!) 

http://www.answers.com/topic/asia-carrera

What's worse is not only did I know it was her, but I knew that she's technically not an alum.  She attended Rutgers, but didn't graduate.

According to most official definitions of "alum" you are not required to have graduated from the school in question, merely attending it is sufficient.  See dictionary.com's definition.

[77ncaachamps]

Who's in the bottom right?

[IAmMarquette]

Who's in the bottom right?

Ruthie, an (recovering?) alcoholic cast member of MTV's the Real World. Hawai'i season I believe.

[MUDPT]

Is bottom right Ruthie from Real World Hawaii?

Embarassing, I might know that.

[🏀]

Let's see...

I spy James Galdofini, Mr. Magoo?, David Stern, Bill Bellamy, L.J. Smith, and Jeff Torborg?

[IAmMarquette]

Let's see...

I spy James Galdofini, Mr. Magoo?, David Stern, Bill Bellamy, L.J. Smith, and Jeff Torborg?

Alexei Lalas...

the aforementioned Asia Carrera, Ruthie, Calista Flockhart...

Who's the dude in the glasses, top right?

[MUCam]

Dude in the top right: Guy from game show, if my feeble mind serves me well. Perhaps the champion of champions from Jeapordy?

(This is a guess based on whatever memory my beer has left me endowed with).

[spiral97]

Dude in the top right: Guy from game show, if my feeble mind serves me well. Perhaps the champion of champions from Jeapordy?

(This is a guess based on whatever memory my beer has left me endowed with).

Well.. I'll let you phone a friend.. or poll the audience.. heck I'll even let you 50:50 it if you want....

[MURFC]

The guy in the  glasses is from 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.'  He used his last lifeline, on the $1M question, to call his dad and explain that he was about to win the game.  It was pretty impressive....the guy just killed every question.  If my memory serves me correctly, he was an IRS agent or attorney.

[dwaderoy2004]

and i don;t think anyone has pointed out jim valvano yet.  everyone should be forced to listen to his speech at the espy's...

[spiral97]

The guy in the  glasses is from 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.'  He used his last lifeline, on the $1M question, to call his dad and explain that he was about to win the game.  It was pretty impressive....the guy just killed every question.  If my memory serves me correctly, he was an IRS agent or attorney.

IRS agent.. and also the first million dollar winner on the show.

[TVDirector]

Mr. Magoo and Paul Robeson would be my favorites.

[The Lens]

and i don;t think anyone has pointed out jim valvano yet.  everyone should be forced to listen to his speech at the espy's...

Why does he give good pointers on how to run a dirty program?

I wish cancer upon no one but dying early did wonders for his legacy...I call it the JFK Syndrome.  Cruel but true, IMO.

[Mayor McCheese]

and i don;t think anyone has pointed out jim valvano yet.  everyone should be forced to listen to his speech at the espy's...

agree, one of the best things Ive heard in my life

[dwaderoy2004]

and i don;t think anyone has pointed out jim valvano yet.  everyone should be forced to listen to his speech at the espy's...

Why does he give good pointers on how to run a dirty program?

I wish cancer upon no one but dying early did wonders for his legacy...I call it the JFK Syndrome.  Cruel but true, IMO.

wow.  i think his legacy is as a man who tried to help others on his way out.  yeah he wasn;t the most honest recruiter of all time, but wouldn't you rather be remembered for the good you did in your life and not the bad?

[The Lens]

I just get sick of the canonizing him that ESPN does.

[muhoosier260]

don't ask me how i remember this, but the who wants to be a millionaire guy is john carpenter, on his million dollar question (which had something to do with ronald reagan being an actor i think) he used his phone a friend to call his dad to tell him that he had just won a million dollars. the crowd and regis loathed him for being a smart cocky IRS agent. I wish i could remember lectures this vividly

[Eye]

Question was US President that appeared on Laugh In. Answer was President Nixon.