Mt. Rushmore vs. the gravel pit

[Born Boiler]

Fox presented a revised Mt. Rushmore for Purdue hoops during the amaizing mauling of Michigan, a graphic of Johnny Wooden, Rick Mount and Glenn Robinson joined by Zach Edey, who replaced the previous Final Four star and the No. 1 pick in the 1980 NBA Draft, Joe Barry Carroll.

Methinks all five should be set in stone, only fitting for basketball. A starting lineup. And Purdue has more great players to stand for the 50 flagpoles leading to that consensus All-American scene, all worthy without a Stretch, Murphy aside. Terry Dischinger and Dave Schellhase lead that way.

Some of us will still beg to differ on calling Edey Purdue’s “all-time scorer.” While that’s true for total points, Mount’s 32.3-point career scoring average beats Edey’s 18.2 by 14.1 points per game. That difference alone tops Robbie Hummel’s career scoring average (14.0) as well as the career averages for 30 other fellow 1,000-point scorers out of Purdue’s total of 57 – namely, JuJuan Johnson (13.7), Todd Mitchell (13.7), Keith Edmonson (13.1), Chad Austin (13.1), Cuonzo Martin (13.1), Eugene Parker (13.0), Jaraan Cornell (12.8), Dennis Blind (12.6), Melvin McCants (12.4), Steve Reid (12.3), A.J. Hammons (12.1), Brian Cardinal (12.0), Brad Miller (12.0), Braden Smith (11.9), Vince Edwards (11.9), Woody Austin (11.6), Fletcher Loyer (11.4), David Teague (11.4), Isaac Haas (11.2), Bruce Parkinson (10.9), Trevion Williams (10.8), Stephen Scheffler (10.5), Mike Robinson (10.0), Kenneth Lowe (10.0), Jerry Sichting (9.9), Drake Morris (9.9), Terone Johnson (9.8), Matt Waddell (9.2), Dakota Mathias (8.1) and Rapheal Davis (7.7). Too big a gap to ignore.

Coach Wooden belongs on Purdue’s all-campus Mt. Rushmore, too, piloted by Neil Armstrong and Gus Grissom with Orville Redenbacher providing snacks and rotating seats with Amelia Earhart, Roger Chaffee, Elwood Mead, Charles Ellis, Games Slayter, Brian Lamb, Pete Dye, Drew Brees, George Peppard, Herman Cain, Ruth Siems, Gene Cernan and Sully, among others. Packed plane.

indinia, on the other hand, has given the world Jim Jones (killed 918 at Jonestown), Emily Harris (murderess and Patty Hearst kidnapper), Tim Durham (50 years for corporate fraud) and Jared Fogle (from Subway to 15 years for child abuse and porn), plus an occasional drop-in named Charles Manson. Nice rock pile there, heh? They don’t wear those devils’ pitchforks for nuthin’.

 

[boilerzz]

Some of us will still beg to differ on calling Edey Purdue’s “all-time scorer.” While that’s true for total points, Mount’s 32.3-point career scoring average beats Edey’s 18.2 by 14.1 points per game. That difference alone tops Robbie Hummel’s career scoring average (14.0)

You can downplay Edey's because of the more games played and thus lower average. But if you do, you should also downplay Mount's because of the lack of defense played and the much higher scoring games in his era.

At the end of the day, Edey holds the most points scored ever for Purdue and Mount holds the highest scoring average ever for Purdue. They are both in the record book and should be lauded as such.

 

[Chi-Boiler]

The next question is going to be, who does Braden Smith replace? Especially if there's another FF or NC in the next 2 years.

 

[Do Dah Day]

You can downplay Edey's because of the more games played and thus lower average. But if you do, you should also downplay Mount's because of the lack of defense played and the much higher scoring games in his era.

At the end of the day, Edey holds the most points scored ever for Purdue and Mount holds the highest scoring average ever for Purdue. They are both in the record book and should be lauded as such.

Mount got only 3 years and NO 3-point line ... Mic drop

 

[New Pal Boiler]

Some of us will still beg to differ on calling Edey Purdue’s “all-time scorer.” While that’s true for total points, Mount’s 32.3-point career scoring average beats Edey’s 18.2 by 14.1 points per game.

Mount took almost 400 more shots in his career than Edey did. So he more than made up for the lost year by jacking up 27-28 shots a game.

 

[boilerzz]

Mount got only 3 years and NO 3-point line ... Mic drop

I guess we can subtract 1 point from Edey's total for the points scored record then.

The rest of it was addressed in my prior comment.

 

[boilerzz]

Mount got only 3 years and NO 3-point line ... Mic drop

Mount shot 48.3% on 1885 shots while Edey shot 62.1% on 1490 attempts. ....mic drop.

Or we can just celebrate them both without getting into a pissing match over different eras.

 

[New Pal Boiler]

Mount shot 48.3% on 1885 shots while Edey shot 62.1% on 1490 attempts. ....mic drop.

Or we can just celebrate them both without getting into a pissing match over different eras.

And let’s not get into defense and rebounding…

 

[HarrysPostGame13]

Fox presented a revised Mt. Rushmore for Purdue hoops during the amaizing mauling of Michigan, a graphic of Johnny Wooden, Rick Mount and Glenn Robinson joined by Zach Edey, who replaced the previous Final Four star and the No. 1 pick in the 1980 NBA Draft, Joe Barry Carroll.

Methinks all five should be set in stone, only fitting for basketball. A starting lineup. And Purdue has more great players to stand for the 50 flagpoles leading to that consensus All-American scene, all worthy without a Stretch, Murphy aside. Terry Dischinger and Dave Schellhase lead that way.

Some of us will still beg to differ on calling Edey Purdue’s “all-time scorer.” While that’s true for total points, Mount’s 32.3-point career scoring average beats Edey’s 18.2 by 14.1 points per game. That difference alone tops Robbie Hummel’s career scoring average (14.0) as well as the career averages for 30 other fellow 1,000-point scorers out of Purdue’s total of 57 – namely, JuJuan Johnson (13.7), Todd Mitchell (13.7), Keith Edmonson (13.1), Chad Austin (13.1), Cuonzo Martin (13.1), Eugene Parker (13.0), Jaraan Cornell (12.8), Dennis Blind (12.6), Melvin McCants (12.4), Steve Reid (12.3), A.J. Hammons (12.1), Brian Cardinal (12.0), Brad Miller (12.0), Braden Smith (11.9), Vince Edwards (11.9), Woody Austin (11.6), Fletcher Loyer (11.4), David Teague (11.4), Isaac Haas (11.2), Bruce Parkinson (10.9), Trevion Williams (10.8), Stephen Scheffler (10.5), Mike Robinson (10.0), Kenneth Lowe (10.0), Jerry Sichting (9.9), Drake Morris (9.9), Terone Johnson (9.8), Matt Waddell (9.2), Dakota Mathias (8.1) and Rapheal Davis (7.7). Too big a gap to ignore.

Coach Wooden belongs on Purdue’s all-campus Mt. Rushmore, too, piloted by Neil Armstrong and Gus Grissom with Orville Redenbacher providing snacks and rotating seats with Amelia Earhart, Roger Chaffee, Elwood Mead, Charles Ellis, Games Slayter, Brian Lamb, Pete Dye, Drew Brees, George Peppard, Herman Cain, Ruth Siems, Gene Cernan and Sully, among others. Packed plane.

indinia, on the other hand, has given the world Jim Jones (killed 918 at Jonestown), Emily Harris (murderess and Patty Hearst kidnapper), Tim Durham (50 years for corporate fraud) and Jared Fogle (from Subway to 15 years for child abuse and porn), plus an occasional drop-in named Charles Manson. Nice rock pile there, heh? They don’t wear those devils’ pitchforks for nuthin’.

Ray Ewry is near the top of all-campus as well. Guy won 8 Olympic Gold Medals and was an absolute badass. His wiki page is worth the read for those not familiar with him.

 

[BoilerDaddy]

I never saw Wooden or Mount play so I don’t even try to compare them to the players that I have followed, but Purdue has had two incredible players in Robinson and Edey. If you were to put together a team of the 5 best players in all of college basketball since 1990, you could make a case for both of them being on it.

 

[Tommaker]

I never saw Wooden or Mount play so I don’t even try to compare them to the players that I have followed, but Purdue has had two incredible players in Robinson and Edey. If you were to put together a team of the 5 best players in all of college basketball since 1990, you could make a case for both of them being on it.

I'd love to see a an EA sports game where you could take the greatest players of all time from a school and pit them against another schools GOATs, and it uses the algorithm of their college stats to generate their playing ability. Probably wouldn't play it, but I'd love to see it. Or does that already exist?

 

[Lee3370]

The next question is going to be, who does Braden Smith replace? Especially if there's another FF or NC in the next 2 years.

Lets say Smith stays another year and shatters the assist record. I still dont think you replace any of the current top 4 with him unless he wins a national championship.

I would guess if Smith wins the Wooden award you could think about replacing ironically Wooden with Smith which is beautiful irony.

 

[Lee3370]

I never saw Wooden or Mount play so I don’t even try to compare them to the players that I have followed, but Purdue has had two incredible players in Robinson and Edey. If you were to put together a team of the 5 best players in all of college basketball since 1990, you could make a case for both of them being on it.

So you are talking about the only guy to ever score 30 points a game in the big ten and a 2 time Wooden award winner.

Also, ironically, Edey is number 2 all time scoring in a season in the big ten to Robinson.

You could argue that both belong in top 5 big ten players since 1990, but you could further argue that Robinson and Edey are number 1 and number 2 on the list.

 

[Boileratthebeach]

Wooden was a 3x all American, poy, and led Purdue to its only national championship. I’d put him at #1 or #2 between him and Edey. He’s ahead of Big Dog imo.

 

[Born Boiler]

Mount took almost 400 more shots in his career than Edey did. So he more than made up for the lost year by jacking up 27-28 shots a game.

And Edey took 350 more free throws.

If he’d shot 84.3 percent, like Mount did, instead of 70.6 percent … same distance, same defense … he’d have finished only 13.1 points per game behind Mount for his career instead of 14.1.

For the record, Dave Schellhase (28.8), Terry Dischinger (28.3), Glenn Robinson (27.5), John Garrett (19.8) and Carl Landry (18.4) finished closer.

 

[Chi-Boiler]

They were both awesome.

The end.

 

[boilerzz]

And Edey took 350 more free throws.

If he’d shot 84.3 percent, like Mount did, instead of 70.6 percent … same distance, same defense … he’d have finished only 13.1 points per game behind Mount for his career instead of 14.1.

For the record, Dave Schellhase (28.8), Terry Dischinger (28.3), Glenn Robinson (27.5), John Garrett (19.8) and Carl Landry (18.4) finished closer.

Most played in different eras. Landry wasn't at Purdue as a freshman. Why are we doing this?

 

[Born Boiler]

Most played in different eras. ... Why are we doing this?

To relive glory days with glorious Boilermakers.

The more everyone says, the better they all sound and the more they’re all remembered.

And then, just as they all did, we kick some loosier ass.

 

[BoilerAndy]

The next question is going to be, who does Braden Smith replace? Especially if there's another FF or NC in the next 2 years.

Aw, if people can propose adding the current and previous presidents to the real Mt. Rushmore, there's no reason for us to limit ourselves to 4 players. 😉