Ex-Huskers star Lawrence Phillips sentenced to 10 years in prison

CNN/SI ^ | Friday October 3, 2008

[PurpleMan]

ormer football star Lawrence Phillips was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison, two years after he was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon.

The 33-year-old former Nebraska running back has been jailed since August 2005, when he drove onto a field near Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and his car struck three boys, ages 14 and 15, and a 19-year-old man, who suffered cuts and bruises. The car narrowly missed three other people, prosecutor Todd Hicks said.

[fatez]

I am CU grad and hate Nebraska. Osborne gets a bum rap. He had thousands of kids thru his program and had a great record of graduation. A few were bums. Only Phillips is responsible for what he did. Coach Osborne tried to help and was taken apart for it. No good deed goes unpunished.

[GOP_Raider]

A product of Tom Osborne's filthy Nebraska football program.

That having been said, Osborne was a GOP Congressman representing Nebraska's first district for a few terms. (I don't have Osborne's voting record in front of me, so if the rest of you want to excoriate him for that, be my guest.)

Also, I'm not sure that I would go as far as to say that Osborne's Nebraska program was "filthy". SMU, Miami, maybe Oklahoma...okay. But "filthy" wouldn't have been the adjective I would have used.

[cincinnati65]

I'm not about to jump into the middle of a collegiate football argument; however, I would offer that I am absolutely shocked that a fine young man such as Lawrence Phillips would find himself on the wrong side of the law once again.

My beeber is officially stuned.

[eyedigress]

Unless he broke the law.

[Lumper20]

You nailed it. It was Devaney. The other schools have far more if not as much dirt. Heck, we had Pacman Jones here in Nashville. Now, no one can tell me he was not a thug in college.

[Lumper20]

You nailed it. It was Devaney. The other schools have far more if not as much dirt. Heck, we had Pacman Jones here in Nashville. Now, no one can tell me he was not a thug in college.

[phoenix0468]

Whatever, Lawrence Phillips was the only “news item” to ever really come out of the Tom Osborne era. I’m an OU fan and I have more respect for Tom then I ever would for that criminal kingpin named Barry Switzer.

[Bluepool]

Tailback, 300 Football players on scholarship is a stretch, Osborne had just as many scholarship players as any other major football program.
What Osborne had was an overachieving walkon program made up of mostly in-state players, and highlighted with a recruits that rarely if ever was in the top ten of recruiting classes.
What people outside of the state rarely understood was that the walkons pushed the 4 and 5 star recruits to their best capabilities.

As for Eric Crouch, he’s running a business in Omaha. You can’t expect much of an NFL career from an option QB.

[Tailback]

Tailback, 300 Football players on scholarship is a stretch

You're right, that was an exaggeration. Why don't you tell me how many scholarship athletes were on the Nebraska football team in 1987?

Osborne had just as many scholarship players as any other major football program.

Let me guess, like Notre Dame which has stunk since the 85 scholarship limit, Florida State which had been steadily declining since the scholarship limit, or Penn State which has been steadily declining since the limit.

What people outside of the state rarely understood was that the walkons pushed the 4 and 5 star recruits to their best capabilities.

And amazingly, after the 85 scholarship limit, those walk ons were a complete non factor, and Nebraska is now lucky to attend a bottom tier bowl game.

[Nonperson]

Did your university’s football team have a defensive unit known as the “Lynch Mob”?

[aft_lizard]

You are delirious. In 1992 the NCAA enforced the 88 limit rule and in 1994 the 85 limit was enforced, in that time from 1994-1997 Nebraska went 60-3 and won three championships. A few all-americans from those teams were walk-ons.

I bet you are one of those inbred hicks in Missouri who think that there actually was a county scholarship program as well.

[aft_lizard]

ALso it wasnt but two years ago Stweart Bradley, and a few years before that Barret Ruud, were highly drafted linebackers who were walk-ons and are now both franchise players for their respective teams.

[Tailback]

You are delirious. In 1992 the NCAA enforced the 88 limit rule and in 1994 the 85 limit was enforced, in that time from 1994-1997 Nebraska went 60-3 and won three championships.

Wow, you're a genius! So lets say that the class of 1991 and 1992 all redshirted. When would they have been seniors and playing their last year of NCAA football? Thanks for proving my point.

[aft_lizard]

WHat point? That you do not know NCAA scholarship rules or roster rules? THe most they could have had is 95 scholarship players on the roster as holdovers from the prior rule before 1992. THis isnt per year mind you, the most you can put on scholly in a single year is 25 and a cumulative total for the whole team of 85(or then 88 or 95). There are such a thing as grey shirts and prop players but the prop players have gone the way of the dodo and are replaced by Jucos and still count towards the scholarship totals.

[rhema]

Tom Osborne is a class act. His mentoring program speaks for itself.

Speaking of which . . .

[nonliberal]

That was kind of a Yogi Berra moment for you.

Bobby Knight won clean unless he broke the law. Lol.

[PurpleMan]

Div 1 Teams that are true scholar athletes

Navy

and then

Army & Air Force

BTW: “Canoe U” will defeat “Sky Blue U” today.