Epilogue: Ex-Husker went from failing classes to teaching them
Demoine Adams once had a GPA of 1.67. Now he's working on his doctorate.
But Adams didn't set out to become an academic. He didn't even know what graduate school was until he had almost finished his bachelor's degree.
He wanted just one thing: a path to the NFL.
* * *
Adams knew football could be his ticket out of Pine Bluff, Ark.
So before his senior year of high school, he got a job at an eight-screen movie theater. He needed to save $375 to attend Nebraska's summer football camp. Maybe there, he thought, a smaller school would see him and give him a shot.
He was 16 and alone when he got to camp. Undersized for a defensive end but fast, he caught the eye of Coach Tom Osborne.
A few months later, the kid from Pine Bluff committed to become a Husker.
But his playing career at Nebraska almost stopped before it started. While redshirting in his first fall on campus, Adams passed just six of the 15 credit hours he took.
With a GPA sagging below 2, he almost was sent back to Arkansas. But he asked for another chance.
He took 18 credit hours that spring, got tutors, started going to lectures and learned how to study. The athletic department sent people to make sure he wasn't skipping class and made him go to a daily study hall.
Then a funny thing happened: The kid who always scraped by in school, but never really cared much for it, discovered he liked learning.
He earned a 3.6 GPA, the highest in his life.
* * *
Raised by a grandma who didn't go to college and great-grandparents who didn't graduate from high school, school was never Adams' priority.
He stayed out of trouble, avoided gangs and got involved with his church. In school, he did his homework and got average grades.
But he never really learned to study. His friends didn't much care about school, and he preferred the football field to the classroom.
College, he thought, was just the next step on his way to NFL glory.
* * *
It all started to come together in fall 1999.
Just a year removed from failing nine of his 15 credit hours, Adams earned a 4.0 GPA.
"It was fun because he was so into it," said his academic adviser, Dennis Leblanc. "He was a guy that was not going to get discouraged, and he knew how to persevere."
Adams' playing career also started that fall, and he appeared as a reserve defensive end for Coach Frank Solich. He even scored a touchdown on a fumble recovery -- the first and last score of his life.
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