So the reports of him not going to class all semester were probably exaggerated? I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked.
YahooGerry was suspended for the final game of his Huskers career — one interception short of the school record, too — and was forced to watch his team lose to Tennessee, 38-24, in the Music City Bowl. The suspension was over an academic violation in which Gerry told Shutdown Corner he “had a class predicament” after he thought he was “going to get a bone thrown [his] way” but did not.
“I was disappointed in myself,” he said. “ … I missed a chunk of my group project and I came up three credits short from an online class.”
Gerry flew down to the bowl game on his own dime along with his family and tried to offer up whatever support he could without being able to play.