Monday, June 26, 2017

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS DAN VAUGHN?


Tag on along as well follow FP Central Quarterback Dan Vaughn on his summer college tour

Friday, June 16:  Yale University in New Haven, CT  
Nickname: Bulldogs (It must be a Vaughn thing)
Mascot: Handsome Dan (Figures, right?)
Applied for Admissions (2016):  31,455
Accepted (2016):  1,972  (6.3%)
SAT Average:  2,265
ACT Average: 34
Annual Tuition & Fee's: $49,500 (Includes health care. Does not include Room and Board)




Saturday, June 17: Columbia University, NYC
Nick Name: Lions
Mascot: Lion
Notable Alum: Lou Gehrig (Baseball Hall of Fame), Sid Luckman (4 time NFL MVP), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (US Supreme Court), Warren Buffett (Multi-Billionaire), Robert Kraft (Owner NE Patriots), and United States Presidents Barack Obama, Theodore Roosevelt & Franklin D. Roosevelt




Sunday, June 18: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Nickname: Big Read
Mascot: Touchdown, the Bear
Acceptance Rate: 12.5%

  • One of only three land granted Universities in the USA and the only one in New York
  • Ranked fifth in the world for student who go on to receive their  PhD
  • 31 Marshall Scholars & 28 Rhodes Scholars
Notable Alum:  Lee Teng-hui - former president Taiwan, Mario GarcĂ­a Menocal - former  president of CubaJamshid Amuzegar - former  prime minister of Iran, Stephen Friedman - Chairman of Goldman Sachs, Andrew Tish - Chairman of Lowes, James McLamore - founder of Burger King, Myra Hart - Founder of Staples, Robert Adkins - devolped the Atkins Diet, Henry Helmich - developed the Heimlch maneuver, Wislon Greatbatch, invented the pacemaker, C. Evertt Koop - Sormer Surgeon General of USA, Jon Rubinstein, created the iPod, Thomas Midgley, invented Freon, Glenn "Pop" Warner, founder of American Football.


Tuesday, June 20: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Nickname: Tigers
Mascot: Princeton Tiger
U.S. News & National Report Ranking: #1 College / University in USA

  • 41 Nobel laureates
  • 21 National Medal of Science winners
  • 14 Fields Medalists
  • Abel Prize winners
  • 10 Turing Award laureates
  • National Humanities Medal recipients
  • 209 Rhodes Scholars
  • 126 Marshall Scholars
Albert Einstein, though on the faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study rather than at Princeton, came to be associated with the university through frequent lectures and visits on the campus.









Thursday, June 22: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Nickname: Quakers
Endowment: $10.715 Billion (5.7% increase from the prior year) Seventh largest endowment of 815 ranked colleges and universities.


  • Bosts 25 billionaires, which is the most of any university in the world at the undergraduate level
  • 33 US Senators
  • 42 US Governors
  • 14 Heads of State
  • 2 US Presidents
  • 158 Members of US House of Representatives
  • Benjamin Franklyn was primary founder
  • First US Medical School and first university teaching hospital
  • Home of Wharton School of Business considered the best overall graduate business school in the world.
  • First University in the world to award a PhD to an African-American woman.
Sixth most selective school in the country accepting 7.7% of applicants in the regular admissions cycle.

Sunday, June 25: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Nickname: Harvard Crimson
Mascot: John Harvard, the pilgrim
Endowment: $34.541 Billion Largest in the world. Has regained all losses from the great recession as of 2011. 

  • Oldest University in the world, established in 1636
  • Acceptance rate of 5.2%, second lowest in USA
  • 32% of students are undergraduate while 64% are graduate students.
  • Harvard Library system contains 80 branches, holding 18,000,000 volumes and is considered the largest academic library in the USA
  • Ranked first in business, education and medical research for postgraduate schools by US News and World Report.
  • 27% of students are international students
  • The forward pass in American football was legalized in 1906 at the suggestion of Walter Camp and is considered perhaps the most significant rule change in sports history according to "The History of American Football", published in 2006.

Notable alum include former US Presidents: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklyn D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, George W. Bush, Barack Obama; Microsoft Founder Bill Gates; Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg as well as Ban Kimoon, Secretary-General of the United Nations and other world leaders.




Friday, June 23, 2017

Keyshawn Johnson Yanks Son From Nebraska Football Team After Weed Bust So He Can ‘Mature’ For Six Months

Keyshawn Johnson (left) was the number one pick in the 1996 NFL Draft
20 June 2017 - LINCOLN, NE — Keyshawn Johnson Jr. — one of the most touted wide receiver recruits in recent Nebraska football history — is taking an extended leave of absence from the Husker program in hope of returning in January, his father, Keyshawn Johnson Sr., said Tuesday night.
The younger Johnson had enrolled at NU in January, a semester early, in hope of playing in 2017. He returned home to Calabasas, California, Tuesday after what the elder Johnson called a joint decision among himself, Nebraska coach Mike Riley and the Huskers’ athletic department. Keyshawn Johnson Sr. wants his son to “mature” for six months before considering a return to the school.
“You’re in college now,” Johnson Sr. said. “You’re an adult. You’re not a kid. You take a look at it from afar and let me know how important it is to you.”
Riley confirmed via text the younger Johnson’s leave of absence.
The elder Johnson, who had an 11-year NFL career, said he’s on the same page with Riley, who used to be his offensive coordinator at USC. That relationship — forged more than two decades ago — helped Riley and Nebraska start a “Calibraska” recruiting movement in Los Angeles. Johnson Jr. — a four-star recruit in the 2017 recruiting class from Calabasas High School — was a centerpiece, but hardly the only recruit.
Calabasas quarterback Tristan Gebbia also enrolled early and has drawn raves from Husker coaches and teammates for his work ethic and preternatural grasp of the game. Husker safety Marquel Dismuke is from the same school. NU’s top 2018 recruit, cornerback Brendan “Bookie” Radley-Hiles, played his junior year at Calabasas, too.
Johnson Sr. said he’s in “full support” of Riley, receivers coach Keith Williams and the rest of NU’s staff. He wants to see more maturity from his son.
“One thing you will not do as my son is you will not embarrass Nebraska, you will not embarrass Mike Riley and you will not embarrass this family,” the elder Johnson said. “If you mature and you’re ready to resume your football career and academic goals, then Nebraska will be ready to embrace you.”
On Twitter, Johnson Jr. wrote the words “bounce back.” He had a rough start at NU in January. He was struck with an illness that set him back physically and caused him to miss some time in spring practice. He appeared in the spring game, catching one pass for 7 yards. He lost a fumble at the end of that play.
In June, Johnson was cited on suspicion of marijuana possession after, according to a University of Nebraska-Lincoln police report, a dorm hall director detected marijuana use coming from a dorm room. Johnson was reportedly found with less than an ounce of marijuana and drug paraphernalia on a Friday afternoon.
Less than two weeks later, he’s back at home with his dad, the No. 1 pick in the 1996 NFL draft and longtime pro football analyst. Johnson Sr. said he wasn’t sure about his son’s opinion on the leave of absence.
“I never asked him,” Johnson Sr. said. “At the end of the day, I don’t think that decision was in his hands. He squandered that decision. He still wants to play football, and he still wants to play for Nebraska. But if you don’t do the things you’re supposed to do, under the guidelines of me, it’s not going to happen.”
Because of the illness and slow start, Johnson wasn’t necessarily a candidate to burn his redshirt in 2017, but his departure for this season thins the receiver room. Nebraska now has seven scholarship wideouts on the roster, and one of those is technically Zack Darlington, the extra-point and field goal holder who’s thrown more career passes as an emergency quarterback than he’s caught passes. The others are senior De’Mornay Pierson-El, juniors Stanley Morgan and Keyan Williams and freshmen JD Spielman, Jaevon McQuitty and Tyjon Lindsey, and all six may have to log significant snaps. Walk-ons Bryan Reimers, Gabe Rahn, Conor Young and others should be in the mix, too.
NU has had a number of receivers leave the program or be dismissed in the last 24 months. Kevin Gladney, Jariah Tolbert and Glenn Irons left in 2015. Derrion Grim enrolled early in 2016, impressed coaches in spring practice, and then abruptly left just before fall camp in 2016. He’s now at Fresno State. Lavan Alston left the program before the 2016 Music City Bowl. None of that quintet logged a career catch at NU.
This story is from www.omaha.com