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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.
Nebraska will play host to both
duals at the Bob Devaney Sports
Center swimming pool.
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RETIRE from page 7
Oklahoma State, Kansas State and
Texas have never retired a basketball
jersey.
“Since I’ve been here, I don’t
think it over has been discussed,”
Oklahoma State Coach Eddie Sutton
said. “As a coach, I would be in favor
of retiring jerseys. I’m not sure who
decided the policy, but something
needs to be done about it.”
But coming up with a uniform
policy on the retirement of jerseys
among the Big 12 coaches is diffi
cult
“(Graduation) should be one of
the criteria for having that honor
bestowed upon you,” Colorado
Coach Ricardo Patton said.
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
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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
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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.”
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