This year's 8th year senior in the Big Ten

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You know, the guy that just won't graduate.

My nomination is David Lighty.
 

He should be the clear cut winner. However, my nomination just to fill the board is Mike Tisdale.
 

David Lighty hands down. Either that or a white big guy from Wisconsin.

In football it has to be the MSU QB Cousins, I honestly think he been there for a better part of a decade.
 

Lighty is a good call for sure.

To me this is the "Jess Settles" award, but could be named after any one of these guys who seem to last forever. I know Mike Bauer was one Gopher who had that effect on other teams.

The junior class award should be Matt Gatens from Iowa. I recently checked to see if he still had another year of eligibility and he's only a junior. Maybe it's the thinning hair or playing on a horrible team, but it seems like he's been around for a long time already.
 

David Lighty and Mike Tisdale are both deserving. The big, white guy from Wisconsin this year is Keaton Nankivil. I'd also like to throw Durrell Summers into the mix.
 



Dr.Don would be the hands down favorite (66th birthday today), if I felt like it. But I would rather drink beer. And I am busy enough with the WalMart parking lots.
 

The worst was Hoosier Tom Coverdale. I swear he played for 15 years.
 




I was just a little guy but Granville Waiters (sp?) from OSU would be nostalgic pick. The dude looked like he was 62 years old as a Senior long before Oden arrived on the scene.
 

Dallas Lauderdale would look older, but he shaved his head bald so you won't see his receding hairline anymore.
 

Brian Cardinal somehow got 4 doctorates and remained eligible allllllllllll the way
 

The Gophers once upon a time had a guy who really did play 8 years. In those days, you just had to be enrolled in school to play, there were no limits. So this guy played 4 years as an undergraduate and then 4 more years in graduate school. I think his last year was maybe 1903 or 1904. His name is Michael Kieffer and he got a couple of big steals late in the Yale game of 1902. Yale was regarded as the best team in the east, and the Gophers were unbeaten and regarded as the best team in the west, so pretty much everybody agreed the winner would be the national champion, seeing as how there was no NCAA tournament in those days. And the Gophs won. And at least 1 observer called them the national champs again in 1903, and then they were pretty much unanimously named national champs, albeit mythical, in 1919. So the Gopher basketball team actually has 3 national titles to its name. Probably no trophies, however. And that 8 year man helped 'em win 2 of them.
 



sunnyday2 said:
The Gophers once upon a time had a guy who really did play 8 years. In those days, you just had to be enrolled in school to play, there were no limits. So this guy played 4 years as an undergraduate and then 4 more years in graduate school. I think his last year was maybe 1903 or 1904. His name is Michael Kieffer and he got a couple of big steals late in the Yale game of 1902. Yale was regarded as the best team in the east, and the Gophers were unbeaten and regarded as the best team in the west, so pretty much everybody agreed the winner would be the national champion, seeing as how there was no NCAA tournament in those days. And the Gophs won. And at least 1 observer called them the national champs again in 1903, and then they were pretty much unanimously named national champs, albeit mythical, in 1919. So the Gopher basketball team actually has 3 national titles to its name. Probably no trophies, however. And that 8 year man helped 'em win 2 of them.
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I'll be damned. That guy is older than I.
 



Jess Settles is certainly a good choice (as mentioned above). Another Iowa player who never seemed to go away was Kevin Boyle who played in the late 70's.
 

Perhaps FOT would be another good choice.
 



I'm sure some Marquette fans would be floored that Mbakwe is only a junior this year...
 

Adam Boone was about 33 when he graduated.

Greg Oden looked like he was going through a midlife crisis.
 



Taylor Battle. I keep forgetting he didn't graduate
 

Battle

I agree with Battle. Kalin Lucas also..

From the other side of the fence I am sure people are saying Hoffarber and Nolen
 

Lighty Diebler and Lauderdale have all been around forever.
 


I agree w/ Sour, Tom Coverdale did play for a decade at least. however, my only real comment in this thread is: David Lighty is STILL playing college ball???? how does he have any eligibility left?? I really assumed he was a senior last season. huh.
 

TheHofferette said:
I agree w/ Sour, Tom Coverdale did play for a decade at least. however, my only real comment in this thread is: David Lighty is STILL playing college ball???? how does he have any eligibility left?? I really assumed he was a senior last season. huh.
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Lighty had a medical redshirt his first junior year, 08/09.
 

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