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1 BERGMAN from page 7 Hocking said. “Danny had two world-class coaches before me who predicted him to be a failure. I’m so proud that they were wrong.” Originally from Alpine, Utah, Bergman started training with his sister, a world champion diver. Bergman went undefeated throughout his high school career and was a four-time state champi on. His rate of success didn’t drop when he came to Nebraska. As a sophomore, Bergman placed sev enth at the NCAA Championships in the 1-meter competition last year. “I want to place high at the NCAA’s. That’s all I want to say about that,” Bergman said. “But I can say that I want to win both the 1 and 3-meter boards at the Big 12 Championships.” Hocking said he has never doubted Bergman. The two have worked closely together since. Bergman started diving at Nebraska three years ago. “Coach and I have a lot more than the normal athlete-coach rela tionship,” Bergman said. “He treats me like a human being - so I do the same for him” Hocking said his respect has to do with understanding that Bergman has great intentions, no matter how crazy he may seem at times. “There’s nobody that wants to do better than he does,” Hocking said. Bergman and the rest of the Nebraska men’s swimming and div ing team will take on Minnesota Friday, and the women will face Texas A&M. 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With that policy, former Buffalo point guard Chauncey Billups, who perhaps is CU’s greatest all-time player, wouldn’t have his jersey retired. Oklahoma Coach Kelvin Sampson said he struggled with that same topic when the Sooners were debating on whether to retire Wayman Tisdale’s jersey. Tisdale, a three-time All American, left Oklahoma after his junior season to play professional basketball. “You look at what he's accom plished, and he is a great ambassador for your university,” Sampson said. “He is so well-respected, and every thing he’s about is first class. “Then you look at what he’s done for this university. For us not to retire Wayman’s jersey because he doesn’t have his degree is penalizing Wayman the wrong way.” With the appeal of big money and lucrative NBA contracts luring col lege kids away, Iowa State Coach Tun Floyd said it’s getting more difficult to have a graduation rule for retire ment of jerseys. “You’d love to have a rule about graduation,” Floyd said. “But it would be very difficult to tell a young man, who is leaving after his sopho more year, you couldn’t retire his jer sey because he hasn’t graduated. “Every situation is different A lot of it might have to do with the history and tradition of your school.” Floyd said die decision to retire jerseys shouldn’t be made solely by the coach, but by a consensus deci sion from the coach and athletic department Kansas’ Roy Williams said a pos sible requirement for retirement could be players who earn player-of the-year or consensus All-America honors. “It’s really difficult,” Williams said. “You can’t Retire their jerseys every two orthfbc years. There’s a lot more teqms nbw and a lot more atten tion. There’s also more players and more good players. So we feel that when we retire a jersey, let’s make it special.” Huskers vary honors NU from page 7 female athletes. But that hasn’t meant retiring every NU All-American volleyball player’s jersey. In Pettit’s 21 years, Nebraska has been awarded 31 All-Ameri$a certify seysLy-*! | \ Yjf *- f Ipf/ ^ Cathy Noth, Karen Dahlgren, Lori Endicott and Allison Weston all had their jerseys retired. All four were two-time All-Americans and all had done something else of significance, Pettit said. Noth and Endicott both went on to play for the U.S. National Team, while Dahlgren was die 1987 Honda Broderick Award recipient. Weston won the 1996 Morgan Trophy. A Nebraska football player must win a national award, such as a Heisman Trophy, or a Butkus, Outland, Lombardi or Unitas award to have his jersey retired. Nebraska Sports Information Director Emeritus Don Bryant said the Huskers used to retire players’ numbers, but because of the large amount of national award winners, the university decided just to retire jerseys and keep numbers in circula tion. “We just couldn’t keep taking numbers out,” Bryant said. However, no Nebraska football player will ever wear No. 60 again. All-American Tom Noyak wore NoJ(jO wheruhe-jaiavfi^frdm 1946 lo ik#amfhad his number retired after the 1949 season. Bryant said when the university decided to just retire jerseys, it left Novak’s num ber retired. Two Nebraska basketball play ers - Dave Hoppen and Stuart Lantz - have had their jerseys retired. Both Hoppen and Lantz were two-time all Big Eight selec tions and are among Nebraska’s top-10 career scorers. Nebraska Wrestling Coach Tim Neumann said the wrestling pro gram doesn’t retire uniforms, but it does honor different wrestlers by inducting them into Us hall of fame. ‘ % ^r-^The recognition is not just important,” Pettit said. “It is impor tant to the tradition and promotion of your sport.” 1
