Auburn Hate Week! Thursday - Alums, Co-Eds, Cheerleaders

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  I thought for the holiday I would take a slightly more lighthearted approach to the Iron Bowl and compare the Alumni and the female hotness at both Universities.

Alumni:

 For a "Cow College", Auburn has a lot of Technical and Engineering Alums.

Non Athlete Alumni:

1. Walter Riggs - Father of Clemson Football
2. Alvin Vogtle - Fighter Pilot and Inspiration for Steve McQueen Character
3. Hank Harsfield - Shuttle Astronaut - Featured in The Dream is Alive
4. Clifton Williams - Gemini and Apollo Astronaut - Killed flying T-38 Aircraft
5. Fob James - Alabama Govenor
6. Ken Mattingly - Apollo and Shuttle Astronaut - Famous for getting booted from Apollo 13 flight
7. James Voss - Shuttle Astronaut
8. Kathryn Thornton - Shuttle Astronaut (I add her because I work with her neice)
9. Jan Davis - Shuttle Astronaut
10. Jimmy Wales - co-founder of Wikipedia
11. Taylor Hicks - American Idol (Attended but did not graduate)
    
12. Jimmy Buffet - Singer (Attended but did not graduate)

Pretty good list.  Lot of space flight on there.  How about Alabama? On their Wikipedia page, their list has to be broken down by category there are so many!

1. Winston Groom - Author Forest Gump
2. Harper Lee - Author To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Kathryn Scott - First female band director in United States
4. Bernard Madoff - Ponzi Scheme dude - (I DIDN'T KNOW HE WENT TO BAMA!!)
5. Jim Nabors - Actor
6. Sela Ward - Acress
7. Bob Riley - Governor
8. Jess Sessions - Senator
9. Richard Shelby - Senator
10. Don Sigelman - Governor
11. George Wallace - Governor

Advantage:  Push

If you like politics, then Alabama is your place.  You pretty much have to be a member of one of the Machine fraternities or sororities to get anywhere, but it is possible.  If you like engineering and Space Travel, Auburn may well be your place.  I want to give this to Alabama, but given my current "real" job where I teach about Space, I'll have to at least bring this to a push

What About Athletic Alumni?

Auburn:

1. Charles Barkley
2. Bo Jackson
3. Ronnie Brown
4. Frank Thomas (baseball)
   
5. Vince Dooley
6. Shug Jordan
7. Kevin Greene
8. Carnell "Cadillac" Williams
9. Jason Campbell
10. Carlos Rodgers
11. Kristy Coventry (Olympic swimming Gold Medalist)
12. Brandon Jacobs
13. Tim Hudson (baseball)

Not a bad list, Here is Alabama:

1. Paul W. "Bear" Bryant
2. Joe Namath
3. Ken Stabler
4. Bart Starr
5. Dwight Stephenson
6. John Hannah
7. Don Hutson
8. Ozzie Newsome
9. Derrick Thomas
10. Cornelius Bennett
11. Shaun Alexander
12. Chris Samuels
13. DeMeco Ryans
14. Glen Coffee
15. Roman Harper (I HAD A CLASS WITH HIM!)
    
16. Antwan Odom
17. Rece Davis (Sportscaster ESPN)
    
18. Mo Williams (Basketball)
19. Latrell Sprewell (Basketball)
20. Mel Allen (The Voice of the Yankees)
21. Terin Humphrey (Olympic Silver Medalist - Gymnastics)
22. Anne Poleska - Olympic Bronze Medalist - Swimming (I HAD A CLASS WITH HER!)

Advantage:  Alabama

I didn't even write out all the good Alabama names I found.  You can look at the complete list here for Auburn and Alabama.

Thats all well and good and I'm glad we got the serious stuff out of the way.  Now, its time for the Women!

There is no good way to determine which school has the best looking girls.  They are both fantastic.  I'm just using the small sampling of photos I've been able to find online of girls wearing the gear from each school.

Alabama:

 

Pretty good Quality for Alabama.  Now, Auburn:

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Advantage:  Auburn

Not really that I think the Auburn chicks are cuter, because they really aren't.  I love my Crimson Chicks!  But, Auburn girls were easier to find on a google image search.

The Cheerleaders:

Funny cheerleader story.  At the 2003 Iron Bowl, ESPN interviewed an Alabama male cheerleader who on national television confessed he grew up an Auburn fan and was rooting for Auburn despite being an Alabama cheerleader.  The next day, he was off the team.  But, there will be no male cheerleaders here.  Time for more SEC women:

Auburn:

And Alabama:

Advantage:  Alabama

Much like the Auburn co-ed search:  The Alabama cheerleaders were MUCH easier to find online quickly.  Plus they amazingly gorgeous.  Even though those candid shots of the girls rolling around on the grass are great, they are still Auburn and I have to throw up a little bit when I see them.

That's it for today!  Happy Thanksgiving, continue hating Auburn!  ROLL TIDE!

ONE MORE DAY!!!!!!

Tomorrow's Post:  Game Analysis and prediction