Cool piece of college sports trivia

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  1. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    LSU is the only one (there is a Notre Dame HS that has had a #1 in the baseball draft. Guess that doesn't count.)
     
  2. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    Did you know Southern has had a #1 baseball pick? 1975, catcher Danny Goodwin to the Angels. (I didn't know either)
     
  3. Tiger_fan

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    they also missed Indiana and Virginia
     
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    i count:

    --thirteen NFL and NBA: LSU, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio State, Michigan State, Indiana, NC State, Virginia, Utah, UCLA, Oklahoma, Syracuse, Notre Dame

    --six NFL and MLB: LSU, Oregon, Nebraska, Miami, Rice, Vanderbilt

    --two NBA and MLB: LSU, North Carolina

    --one NFL, NBA, MLB: LSU

    --eight with four or more total in NFL/NBA/MLB: Notre Dame (6), USC (5), Oklahoma (5), LSU (4), Auburn (4), Georgia (4), Michigan (4), Ohio State (4)
     
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    LSU and Tulane had back-to-back #1 picks: 1960 Billy Cannon/1961 Tommy Mason... interesting times for the LSU/Tulane rivalry
     
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    clone
     
  7. tirk

    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    they still doing lobo jokes in rome? dumb question. they do the same thing everyday for 20 yrs straight now, orenthal.
     

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