Word: nebraska
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Confronted with the choice between a full-ride athletic scholarship at perennial national title-contender Nebraska and Division I-AA, non-playoff-attending Harvard, Copple decided that he ought to get more out of college than gridiron glory...
...with academics,” Copple said of his head-turning decision. “A degree from Harvard is a lot different from a degree from Nebraska, Texas or Oregon. Not that they’re bad schools, but when it comes to grad school or getting a job after college, Harvard’s reputation is a little bit better...
...ties to the university actually care about what happens on that patch of land across the river from the main campus. In general, if you’re a high school football stud with NFL dreams, your first stop on that road is going to be a school like Nebraska, Virginia, Oregon, or Colorado State—all schools that heavily recruited Copple...
...there are a select few professional players who spend their college years in the Ivy League. And Harvard coach Tim Murphy, knowing where Copple was coming from, artfully suggested to the kid from Lincoln Southeast High to get in touch with another Nebraska transplant—former Crimson captain, starting tight end and one-time NFL player Chris Eitzmann...
...don’t get a lot of kids from Nebraska,” Murphy said. “They don’t really know what it’s about, how will they fit in. Sometimes their perceptions are great in some respects—like academically—but not so great in other respects. They perceive a lot of arrogance, a lot of pretensions, or that you need to come from money. We try to give them real information...