Woody Paige on Tennessee

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As he signed off today on ESPN he had drawn a picture of the state of Tennessee and in the middle it read "Hoop's King".:good!:
 
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yeah earlier in the show the panel had a discussion of who was the number 1 state in basketball. woody choose tn and so did blackenstone.
 
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When Woody really gets his gums flapping he reminds me a little of Rowdy Roddy Piper.
 
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Doesn't being a former student technically make him an alum? I don't think it matters whether or not he graduated in order for him to be an alumni.
 
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Woody may be from Tennessee, but I can't stand him. His reporting is terrible, and he's the biggest bandwagon UT sports fan ever, not saying there's anything wrong with that just that he receives too much hype from jumping on and off of UT
 
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Jaytrain5 said:
Doesn't being a former student technically make him an alum? I don't think it matters whether or not he graduated in order for him to be an alumni.
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I'm still wanting to know why ESPN considers him a graduate of UT?
 
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He was born in Memphis and named after Woodrow Wilson. I thought this was interesting:

"A brouhaha occurred in July 2001 over one of Paige's columns. He reported that an employee at Invesco, which had the naming rights to the Denver Broncos stadium, Invesco Field at Mile High, claimed that the nickname for the stadium inside the company was "The Diaphragm," after its shape. The CEO of the company threatened Paige and the Post with legal action over the allegations, but had to retract the lawsuit when it was discovered that the story was true." [3]
 
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Jaytrain5 said:
Doesn't being a former student technically make him an alum? I don't think it matters whether or not he graduated in order for him to be an alumni.
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No. You have to graduate from a school to be considered an alumnus. Would you put Coker on the alumni list? Didn't think so.
 
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volfan55 said:
No. You have to graduate from a school to be considered an alumnus. Would you put Coker on the alumni list? Didn't think so.
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Wrong.

a·lum·nus (
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The dictionary is your friend.
 
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I understand. You should check before you make such broad statements though. Facts are much better than "well, that's what I thought..." :)

:good!:
 
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in that particular dictionary definition alumnus is colloquially described redundantly as a graduate or former student. They are meant to be one and the same. You cannot be an alumnus if you did not graduate from a particular university.
 
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This is a pretty interesting question. I too had always heard that the proper usage of "alumnus" was for people who had actually graduated from a particular institution, but all the dictionaries I can can find -- including my OED, which is of course as close to an ultimate authority as there is -- include the "former student" usage as well. My usage guides don't address it, as they're fixated on the misuse of the plural "alumni" as a singular noun (e.g., "I'm an alumni of UT.") The "former student" usage doesn't bother me, of course, but I'm curious -- from where, then, did the notion that it applies only to graduates come?

From Latin alere, meaning "to nourish," if any other word nerds care about that sort of thing.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
This is a pretty interesting question. I too had always heard that the proper usage of "alumnus" was for people who had actually graduated from a particular institution, but all the dictionaries I can can find -- including my OED, which is of course as close to an ultimate authority as there is -- include the "former student" usage as well. My usage guides don't address it, as they're fixated on the misuse of the plural "alumni" as a singular noun (e.g., "I'm an alumni of UT.") The "former student" usage doesn't bother me, of course, but I'm curious -- from where, then, did the notion that it applies only to graduates come?

From Latin alere, meaning "to nourish," if any other word nerds care about that sort of thing.
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i just explained in the above post exactly how the definition should be interpreted.

I can explain this further but I have an idea that it would be a waste of my time. If you want to believe that anyone who has ever attended a school is considered an alumnus, go ahead. It's just not correct.
 
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I, too, thought you had to graduate to be considered. But looking at Merriam-Webster's definition, you only needed to attend. Weird.
 
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Mullet said:
i just explained in the above post exactly how the definition should be interpreted.

I can explain this further but I have an idea that it would be a waste of my time. If you want to believe that anyone who has ever attended a school is considered an alumnus, go ahead. It's just not correct.
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Please, explain.

I'm sure many here would be interested in having this clarified.

So, only a graduate can be considered an alumnus? Let's say Chris Lofton decides to hang up his sneakers and his textbooks next week...is the most prolific scorer in UT history not an alumnus?
 
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