Big Ten Icons-who you got for the Top 5?
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HAWKEYESTATE4ever
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Nile Kinnick (Duh!)
Bob Sanders (Bob Sanders is the only guy who could beat Chuck Norris' asss!)
Chris Kingsbury (need I say more?)
Jess Settles (longest Big Ten career of all-time!)
Matt Roth/Pat Angerer (these two tie for a spot in the top due to their straight badassness!!!)
Bob Sanders (Bob Sanders is the only guy who could beat Chuck Norris' asss!)
Chris Kingsbury (need I say more?)
Jess Settles (longest Big Ten career of all-time!)
Matt Roth/Pat Angerer (these two tie for a spot in the top due to their straight badassness!!!)
spliff45
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VintageHawkeye
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Higby has to be in everyone's top 5. No brainer. 
thejumper5
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I like the first four, but not Wooden. He is a Pac 10 icon much more than a Big 10 icon. I think rule number 1 of Big 10 icons has to be, "If the general public strongly associates them with a school that isn't in the Big 10, they're out of the mix for the top spots." I honestly think that Iowa will have two top ten guys in Nile Kinnick and Dan Gable. One of them may be in the top 5.
Don't count out Gerald Ford.
fulsaasfan
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Nope, current wrestling coach Tom Brands was #50.
Cybsball20
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Having Steve Alford ahead of Jack Nicklaus pretty much ruins any credibility with this list...
99topdawg
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Correct. If I am interpreting it correctly, coaches are not on the list.
imported_ankle23
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then you know then fufred that gable would not be on this list.
HawkinGoferLand
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Kinnick may make top 5. (#1 in my book )
In addition to winning Heisman playing both offense and defense, he punted (led the nation), returned kicks and kicked FGs. PLUS, he led the Iowa basketball team in scoring as a Soph which was 15th in B10 AND played baseball, dropping that after Soph yr.
) In addition to winning Heisman playing both offense and defense, he punted (led the nation), returned kicks and kicked FGs. PLUS, he led the Iowa basketball team in scoring as a Soph which was 15th in B10 AND played baseball, dropping that after Soph yr.
I admittedly have no idea at all when it comes wrestling, I knew Gable was a coach I had no idea if he was a star wrestler at Iowa too. Wrestling isn't my thing.
HawkinGoferLand
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Gable starred as a wrestler at Iowa State not Iowa, unfortunately. He was 181-1 in college losing only his last match. Won an Olympic Gold medal in German and did not give up a single pt.
As coach at Iowa, won 9 straight NCAA Titles (15 in his 21 yrs as coach) and 21 straight B10 Titles. Coaching record was 355-21-5.
As coach at Iowa, won 9 straight NCAA Titles (15 in his 21 yrs as coach) and 21 straight B10 Titles. Coaching record was 355-21-5.
Rawkhawk73
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The list has nothing to do with what they did professionally.....it was only their accomplishments while they were a student athlete. As much as I dislike Alford, I actually think he was a little low here.
Cybsball20
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Didn't Nicklaus win a couple of US Am's, a couple of National titles, and place in PGA Tournaments while at OSU? I think that dwarfs anything Alford did.
