re: Most famous Non athlete alumnis from each school.

I've got copies of Suttree, Child of God, Blood Meridian, and All the Pretty Horses lying around various places (car, bathroom, work, etc.) for when I have some time to just read a few pages. I don't really have to pick up and follow a narrative with him (I mean, I have read his narratives before and they're perfectly fine). Instead, I can be content with just reading a random chapter from one of those books and marveling at the prose. Faulkner shares that same quality, only he didn't seem to care a ton for punctuation (that whole stream of consciousness movement came through at times). McCarthy can, at times, have a Hemingway-like simplicity to his syntax and it's enthralling. Great command of rhythm.

Rip torn
Neil Boortz
Khalid Al Falih(aramco pres)
Rita LeBlanc(saints owner)
Dr. Red Duke(cool mofo in real life)
Frank White(AR governor)
President of GA tech(forgot his name)

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I've got copies of Suttree, Child of God, Blood Meridian, and All the Pretty Horses lying around various places (car, bathroom, work, etc.) for when I have some time to just read a few pages. I don't really have to pick up and follow a narrative with him (I mean, I have read his narratives before and they're perfectly fine). Instead, I can be content with just reading a random chapter from one of those books and marveling at the prose. Faulkner shares that same quality, only he didn't seem to care a ton for punctuation (that whole stream of consciousness movement came through at times). McCarthy can, at times, have a Hemingway-like simplicity to his syntax and it's enthralling. Great command of rhythm.

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I've got 'em too.

Suttree was supposed to be more narrative AND it's about Knoxville in a time I want to know more about so it's the one I sought out most and it was damned hard to find. I love wandering prose or even prose that's just poetry but what threw me off most was the lack of quotation marks. I'm not used to seeing that. Also, that there IS a narrative there (I mean it's obvious that there is one) made me search too much; instead of just immersing myself in this wild prose based poetry. But since this one is about Knoxville, I think it's made it harder in a sense because I want to know everything.

I need to just allow myself to immerse on the first read, enjoy the poetry and rhythm, and resign myself to reading it again to tease out more. It just doesn't allow anything else and I need to roll with it. I'm already hooked on the story but this one has been challenging.

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So if we could narrow this down to ONE person who GRADUATED from an SEC school who is the most well-known...who would it be?

We could do two categories...living and deceased.

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Dead most famous/well known (unfortunately not in a good way) for Alabama using the above criteria (graduate) most (in)famous is George Wallace.
Living most recognized by name generally I would say Jim Nabors.

You really have to read him multiple times across multiple books. It's almost like learning a different language, his diction and syntax is that unique. But once you familiarize yourself with it and start to unravel what he's doing with his sentences, it's goddamned amazing.

I don't know if this is just one of those cases in which a writer was born with it in his veins or if he just read and revised and worked his way into this kind of writing. I like to think the former because it saves me from realizing so relatively early in my life that I have next to no discipline in comparison. Guys like McCarthy and Nabokov and Faulkner have an understanding and command of the language that at least gives off the illusion of immense patience with their word choice and line editing (chances are they probably really do have that patience, too). Be it my lack of self control or that I was just born into a world of insurmountable visual stimulus (or both), I have a hard time imaging that I'll ever get to that level of thought.