Nebraska...not feeling Frosty anymore

[Wild Hoss]

Because these dipshits don't deserve a raise for epic-style defeats, no conference title, bowl loss and 20-something final rank. Sure as shit not anybody on the defensive side.

Beck is OK in my book, but he's not a $700,000 coordinator by any stretch of the imagination. Christ, its his second year on the job.

[Mike]

We'll trade OCs with you and you'll save $42K in the process. Deal?

[entropy]

Mike...lol...no

Hoss beck deserves that money.

[Mike]

Last chance!

[Paul L]

Sweeten the pot with a couple medium Domino's pies

[Mike]

And a commemorative road jersey from the 2011 game at MSU. Yours free... if you act now.

[Jeff Buchanan]

..... but wait.....! If you call now .....

[THE_WIZARD_]

heh

[entropy]

Lol....

[Wild Hoss]

..... but wait.....! If you call now .....

...you'll take our OL coach as well, absolutely free?

[Pasadena Blue]

I presume Neb will start getting more money soon for joining the B1G, so they should have plenty to spend, even on coordinator mistakes. I wouldn't worry too much. More important is that Bo now has the resources to hire replacements if he so chooses.

[entropy]

McWilson is visiting Kentucky.... This could be two decomitts in two weeks.

[entropy]

Suttles commits to UNL

[entropy]

A few days after a national television commentator invoked I.M. Hipp's name to describe 119 galloping yards from Ameer Abdullah at UCLA last fall, Nebraska's famous walk-on received home-page Facebook visits from all kinds of former Huskers - Johnny Rodgers, Roger Craig, Terry Luck, Tony Davis, Rod Horn, Anthony Steels, Craig Johnson, Tim Wurth, Dan Hurley, Tim Hager, Rodney Lewis, Percy Keith and Oudious Lee.

"I watched the game and heard them mention my name," Hipp said with a laugh from his home in Virginia Beach, Va. "I was surprised, but to be honest, I was more focused on winning the first flight in my club (golf) championship the next day." And he did, shooting a 71 after a 72 the before.

The 1976 home-opener his sophomore season, when he started for the injured Rick Berns and set Nebraska's all-time single-game rushing record (254 yards on 28 carries), wasn't his most memorable game. That came the following season as a junior back-up to Berns, who rushed for 128 yards and scored three touchdowns in the Huskers' 31-24 win over No. 1 Alabama at Memorial Stadium.

After a Tough Loss, The Bear Sought Out Hipp

Berns was rightfully the star that day, but Hipp's story is equally intriguing. He was, after all, the player that legendary Alabama coach Paul "Bear" Bryant sought out on the field afterwards. Bryant was looking for the game's unsung hero, who grew up in the South and played a pivotal role in handing the Crimson Tide its only loss that season.

Hipp rushed six times for 38 yards. He also caught a 53-yard swing pass from Randy Garcia late in the second quarter when Nebraska trailed, 14-10. Two plays later, Berns scored to give the Huskers a 17-14 lead and, all of a sudden, a stadium exploded, sensing the prospects for a real, live upset on national TV.

"I had a great game," Hipp said. "What made it memorable was Bear coming over and wanting to know how I could come all the way from South Carolina to Nebraska and pass by Alabama."

Hipp started to answer but "a young man came by, got behind him and took Bear's checkered hat," Hipp recalled. "When he stole that hat, I was ready to run after him, tackle him and get it back."

Such a thought lasted all of one second. "Bear had this big, deep voice and said to me: 'Son, don't worry about that hat. I have a lot more of those at home, so let's just keep walking and talking so you can answer my question,' " said Hipp.

While Growing Up, Hipp Cheered for Nebraska

"I told Coach Bryant that when Nebraska and Alabama played a couple times in the Orange and Sugar Bowls when I was about 10 and 11and growing up in Chapin (S.C.), everybody in my house was cheering for Alabama, but I was cheering for Nebraska," Hipp said. "I told him it was always my dream to attend the University of Nebraska. I didn't have time to tell him the rest of the story."

But we do. Hipp broke his leg before his senior season in high school. "People didn't recruit me, so I sent letters to Nebraska, Alabama, USC and South Carolina," he said. "I wanted to go to South Carolina because it was so close to home. But at the same time, I wanted to go away."

Fortunately for Nebraska, "Tom Osborne was really the only one to respond," Hipp said. "He wrote me back and told me he'd be glad if I walked on and became a part of the program. The invitation was so gracious, I decided that day I was going to drive all the way to Lincoln as soon as possible because playing at Nebraska was always my dream, and if I didn't accept the invitation, how could my dream come true?"

[entropy]

11 colleges with the smartest athletes

Posted on January 14, 2013

The dumb jock might not yet be a thing of the past, but it definitely appears that more and more student athletes are realizing only about 1% of them are going to go pro and they’d better hit the books. Both the NCAA and the federal government put out stats on college student athletes’ graduation rates, and although it’s not at all our intention to downplay the incredible achievement of graduating from college, we thought we’d try to pinpoint the schools with the most athletes who not only pass, but do it with flying colors.
•Baylor University:
BU’s on-field reputation in the Big 12 has been growing in recent years, but its athletes have been dominating the classroom consistently for a while now. The Spring 2012 semester was the 11th in a row for its teams to produce a record number of Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll members (which requires a minimum 3.0 semester GPA), at 304. Sixty-five earned a perfect “four-oh.” Across all sports, the Bears’ cumulative GPA was 3.14, the eighth consecutive term the number topped 3.0.

•American University:
It’s not unusual for cumulative GPAs for all Eagle athletes to end up at 3.3 for the term, or 3.37, or, as happened last spring, 3.42. The school regularly fields teams that receive the best average GPA for their sport and division in the entire country, and it’s always at or near the top for schools with the most students making the Patriot League Honor Roll.

•University of Nebraska-Lincoln:
Husker sportsters pay the school back for providing them with some of the nation’s most amazing athletic facilities by killing it grades-wise. No school in the country has more Capital One Academic All-Americans or NCAA Top Eight Award winners to its name. The school has also been quick to jump onto the leaderboards of a relatively new NCAA educational achievement program called the 1A FAR Academic Excellence Award (for recent grads with at least a 3.8 cumulative GPA), turning out 10 recipients in 2011 and 17 more last year.

•University of Wisconsin-Green Bay:
Draw your own conclusions about the fact that this perennial home for scholar athletes has no football team. All we know is you’d have to go back nearly to the turn of the millennium to find a semester UWGB’s sports teams didn’t combine for at least a 3.0. The 3.27 cumulative GPA scored in Spring 2012 was the 25th time to put up at least a triple. The lady’s basketball team deserves a special shout-out, being 31 semesters into a 3.0 or better streak.

•Winona State University:
This public school in Minnesota was recently named one of the best regional universities in the country by U.S. News & World Report. Warrior athletes are certainly doing their part to make that so with their streak of six semesters breaking not the 3.0 but the 3.2 GPA mark. Their Fall 2012 marks were their best ever, with an average of 3.28. Sixty jocks earned perfect 4.0s and 135 made the Dean’s List.

•University of Toledo:
Of the 15 sports teams UT fields, 14 put up GPAs of at least 3.0 in Spring 2012, good enough for a personal best 3.266 GPA for all the athletes combined. It marked the seventh consecutive “winning season” for the sporty guys and girls in which they earned at least a group 3.1, and the 12th time in 14 tries they received at least a 3.0. Nearly 71% of individual athletes scored a 3.0, also a school record.

•Idaho State University:
Although the Bengals probably couldn’t be considered a powerhouse in anything other than men’s track and field, these athletes punch above their weight when they’ve got a Scantron in their hands. The 3.18 GPA the players pulled off in Fall 2012 was the sixth consecutive and 12th in 14 semesters that they collectively broke the coveted 3.0 mark. More than a third of the school’s 315 student athletes grade points of at least 3.5.

•University of Montana:
As happens with many of the schools with dual threat athlete-braniacs, the Grizzlies and Lady Griz routinely notch better scores as a group than the rest of the student body. Such was the case in the Fall 2012 term, when the athletic department’s 3.09 GPA stomped the general population’s 2.83. The semester was the players’ 15th straight of a 3.0 or better.

•Montana State University:
In-state rival Montana might have twice as many wins in their head-to-head football matchups, but MSU holds its own in the gradebook. In the fall of 2012 semester, varsity teams assembled a solid 3.15 collective GPA, continuing an incredible streak of 22 semesters reaching at least the 3.0 level. The Fighting Bobcats also snagged their second-ever Big Sky Conference Presidents’ Cup — “the ultimate reward for all-around [academic] excellence in the Big Sky Conference” — joining Montana and Weber State as the only schools to win at least twice.

•New Mexico State University:
There’s nothing wack about the Aggie athletes’ academic performances (they’re in the WAC … OK, so that was bad). The school was tops in the conference in 2011-2012 on the strength of their 184 all-academic ballers, runners, and swimmers, who together racked up the department’s 14th consecutive semester of 3.0 GPA or better. Eighty-four individual athletes managed at least one perfect 4.0 semester in the 2011-2012 academic year, and all the athletes even chipped in for 5,000 total hours of community service.

•University of Central Florida:
For six years running, UCF has been at the top of the heap in the C-USA conference for athletes landing on the Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll. For Fall 2012, the jocks’ tallied a 3.11 GPA, more than enough to keep their 10-time streak of 3.0-or-better terms alive. Fourteen Knights earned four-point-ohs and five teams broke their previous records for single-semester GPAs.