Which Alumni would you have put on this recruiting tweet?

[Capt. Tuttle]

Kathrine Switzer - a good name to know, if you don't. Kathrine Switzer recalls marathon barriers, pushes for inclusion in 2018 commencement address

 

[OrangeDW]

Eh. College students that aren’t morons understand that the world didn’t start in 2012. This list is fine.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

Suzanne Pleshette
Story Musgrave
Albert Einstein - not that Albert Einstein. An English Lit major from Syosset.

Suzanne is a Finch college alum

 

[Noexcuse]

If a recruit’s parents need to use google to understand a reference to a “famous” person, then that’s probably not a great name to drop to a recruit in a tweet like this.

Well, to be honest I had to goog Robert Duffy, not exactly a household name. As politicians go Rudman is definitely more notable imo. At least I didn't bring up Alfonse D'Amato.

 

[SUFaninNJ]

Sorkin would definitely be a good addition. I had no idea who Duffy was either.

 

[Cheriehoop]

Suzanne is a Finch college alum

Sadly she’s also been dead for a number of years,

 

[NJCuse97]

Well, to be honest I had to goog Robert Duffy, not exactly a household name. As politicians go Rudman is definitely more notable imo. At least I didn't bring up Alfonse D'Amato.

I met both Senators D’Amato and Biden at a pre-game event thrown by Buzz Shaw. It was in the Ernie Davis room (now Club 44 I believe) before the Pitt game in 1992. I told D’Amato I was an Architecture major and he chastised me and all Architecture majors because his work-study grant when he was a student was cleaning in Slocum Hall and we were all slobs. Lou Gosset Jr. was there too, because his son was at SU at the time.

 

[Cusedad2X]

David Falk

 

[CuseLegacy]

And Lou Reed.

 

[bnoro]

I don't know half the people named in this thread and I'm 28...

 

[CuseLegacy]

I don't know half the people named in this thread and I'm 28...

But you are such an "old soul".

 

[IthacaMatt]

WHERE'S LOU REED? Vanessa Williams represents SU's Music but not Lou Reed???
Add in Suzanne Somers in the acting category, too. What the hell, people.

 

[djorange1989]

WHERE'S LOU REED? Vanessa Williams represents SU's Music but not Lou Reed???
Add in Suzanne Somers in the acting category, too. What the hell, people.

Suzanne Somers didn’t go to SU.

 

[MSOrange]

Suzanne Somers didn’t go to SU.

Why do you have to ruin our fun with all these rules we have to stick by??

 

[hoopsupstate]

Suzanne Somers didn’t go to SU.

Yes she did

 

[orange79]

Yes she did

No, she didn't.

 

[IthacaMatt]

Suzanne Somers didn’t go to SU.

She's in that university video with the Lou Reed song. Kind of surprised to hear that.

 

[MSOrange]

No, she didn't.

Agree. She did not. Appears this may be the confusion I guess. A simple Google search and reading Suzanne's bio would also tell you this isn't true.

OT: Suzanne Somers

 

[orange79]

She's in that university video with the Lou Reed song. Kind of surprised to hear that.

No, she isn't. That's Betsey Johnson, fashion designer.

 

[IthacaMatt]

No, she isn't. That's Betsey Johnson, fashion designer.

That's not Suzanne Somers? I know that designer Betsy Johnson went to SU; she's mentioned earlier in the commercial. Here's a screen capture.

 

[djorange1989]

That's not Suzanne Somers? I know that designer Betsy Johnson went to SU; she's mentioned earlier in the commercial. Here's a screen capture.

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nope that isn't her. not exactly sure who that is, but isn't Suzanne

 

[CuseLegacy]

Doppleganger. It's, as orange79 stated, Betsy Johnson.

 

[EastCoast2]

Lexington Steele... college kids know who he is...

 

[721Comstock]

I thought Pete Yorn would be much more successful than he ended up being.
Really dug his 1st album, musicforthemorningafter.

But yeah - Lou Reed is an unexcusable absence on the music side of things.
Especially since he provided the soundtrack song "Head Held High" for the Syracuse commercial than ran for the past several years.
See the screenshot posted above by IthacaMatt for reference.

 

[NJCuse97]

I thought Pete Yorn would be much more successful than he ended up being.
Really dug his 1st album, musicforthemorningafter.

But yeah - Lou Reed is an unexcusable absence on the music side of things.
Especially since he provided the soundtrack song "Head Held High" for the Syracuse commercial than ran for the past several years.
See the screenshot posted above by IthacaMatt for reference.

I love Lou Reed as much as the next guy, but there isn't a highschool football recruit in the country, or even Sweden where Rutgers recruits, that knows who Lou Reed is. Your best bet would be to tweet out "the guy who wrote and performed 'Walk on the Wild Side' went to SU" and even then I'm not too confident. Andy Warhol made Lou Reed famous and they don't know who Andy Warhol is. Tell me that SuperBowl ad with him eating a Whopper wasn't awkward. Nobody knows who these people are anymore!