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Wilkinson Over Switzer
Published: 2/6/2009 12:23 PM
Last Modified: 2/6/2009 12:23 PM

ESPN.com is running an interesting angle whereby states are asked to list the four most important sports figures, ever.

Check out Alabama for power.
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In a piece in Friday's World, Bill Haisten did his own Tulsa Mt. Rushmore, the city's top four.

Getting back to Oklahoma's top four list, many list Barry Switzer over Bud Wilkinson.

That's not right.

Wilkinson dusted off this state and established a winning streak that seems unbreakable; and none of his players were pictured nationally in prison gear.





Reader Comments 10 Total

BOBDOG (4 years ago)
Amen to pick Bud over Barry.
Have that (4 years ago)
when you look at all the states and their rosters for what they have as thier Mt. Rushmore it starts to raise some questions to me...

Barry Sanders is on 3 states (Kansas, Oklahoma, Michigan)

So is Hank Arron (Alabama, Georgia, Wisconsin)

and there are 13 other athletes that are up on two different states.

my question is, where is the line drawn for "where this person is from"? is it where they were born? where they became famous? where they ended their carrer or began it?

this whole list is a little bunk to me...should be a set system and no repeats.

Take Michigan for example...no Ty Cobb, but he is on Georgia...hello? seriously? he spent 20+ years with the tigers and single handedly changed the game of baseball...yet they put Steve Yzerman on there? a great hockey player, yes, but never once led in any statistical catigory, born in canada, and played for the canadian olympic team

there are just too many faults with this list...as there are with most ESPN polls that leave the voting up to the retarded masses.

World Picker (4 years ago)
HT: You're right, the bit could stand some rules.

Now it's like: Anybody who did ten minutes of a sport in any state qualifies.

ESPN has become a pain in the backside hasn't it.

It hired a woman to critique its on-air stuff, and she was so good and tough, they didn't renew her contract!

It's like a private club, Nerds Gone Batty

Tex Taylor (4 years ago)
Barry Switzer? My Lawd, Barry is a disgrace to the entire state, I don't care what his record was, and a Brad Henry shill to boot.

Best bumper sticker I ever saw:

"Barry had it in for Larry"
Greg (4 years ago)
You know the saying "What have you done for me lately?"? Switzer is the contemporary choice. I don't think he embarrassed the state. Had he been the one pictured in prison rags it would be different.

Wilkinson's success beget Switzer's success so every list should have Bud at the top.
stan (4 years ago)
The bootlegger's boy turned into the bootlicker's boy when he worked for Jerry Jones in Dallas. The only way Switzer wins is by the number of miscreants that he recruited to fire automatic weapons while at OU.
Nit Picker (4 years ago)
World Picker;

In my absence you became even a bigger bigot, and have now moved down into the ranks of a fourth rate hack. Indeed,you are still a coward and afraid to sign your column with your real name.

I had hoped you would become a man and identify yourself, but alas. you are still a clucker.

Just read all your hypebole about the NC Game in Miami.
Garbage. Check your own archives-you never said 90% of the stuff you claim you said BEFORE the game. You are either on drugs or a liar. Or maybe both.
How in the name of Jimmy the Greek you ever keep your job is a mystery.
Talk about an overrated recruit on signing day!
Maybe you have some compromising photos of TW biggies in your safe deposit box. It would explain a lot.

The SEC is still as overrated as you are. Bowl games mean nothing, idiot. No way one can justify the PAC 10 Big 10 incest at the Rose Bowl. No way anyone can justify most of the big bowl games and NC games being an SEC home game. Clearly conferences ratings are just a bunch of World Picker(crap)as far as bowl games are concerned.
And btw; Texas still lost to Texas Tech and Florida still lost to Mississippi.
You are TW's answer to Loopy Les.
Vern (4 years ago)
It's really hard to compare Bud against Barry. The rules were diffrent. If Barry's 1985 team played Bud's 1955 team, it wouldn't be close. Barry would hang a half a hundred on them by half time.
OSUNDN (4 years ago)
NITPICKER / NITWITTER, (if that is your real name). When did you get out of jail?
cowboy (4 years ago)
Cowboy Clinton,AR As a native born Tulsan and advid OU fan both Bud and Barry have their good and bad points.Bud classy and distinguished.Barry,brash and out going.Both winners!Both recruited to their style.Bud gets my vote --he set the ball rolling and all others are compared to the standard he set.
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