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Is this supposed to negate the fact that the ESECPN conference leads the nation in arrests?

LP played 20 years ago, so according to you & Jigs, it's irrelevant.

Like I told you before, we don't know exactly what the deal was with the cellmate. Maybe he needed killing.
 
Found dead in his cell this morning. Suspected suicide. He won't have to fight his demons any longer.

Folks are always so eager to cast stones, but they seldom know the rest of the story. Sadly, Lawrence's story will never be fully known, let alone understood.
 
Lawrence Phillips was found dead Wednesday at Kern Valley State Prison, according to USA Today Sports.

The report, citing California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Terry Thornton, cites the death as a suspected suicide.

Guards at Kern Valley State Prison found Phillips unresponsive in his cell shortly after midnight. He was taken to an outside hospital and pronounced dead about 1:30 a.m., the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said, per The Associated Press.

The former Nebraska running back was serving a seven-year term for felony assault with a deadly weapon and was set to serve an additional 25 years for a domestic assault on his girlfriend.



In 2015, he was charged with the murder of his former cellmate, Damion Soward. Soward was found unresponsive in his cell in the Kern Valley State Prison in Delano, California, in April of last year.


In 2015, he was charged with the murder of his former cellmate, Damion Soward. Soward was found unresponsive in his cell in the Kern Valley State Prison in Delano, California, in April of last year.

Former NFL RB has been incarcerated since 2008


Phillips tied a Nebraska school record by rushing for 100 yards or more in 11 straight games in 1994. Phillips ran for 1,722 yards during the regular season en route to Nebraska's securing an undefeated season and national title.

He helped the Cornhuskers to another title in 1995.

He had various disciplinary problems while in college, including an infamous 1995 incident in which he was arrested after being accused of dragging his girlfriend down the stairs by her hair.

Phillips was drafted No. 6 overall by the St. Louis Rams in 1996, but lasted just three seasons in the NFL.

He last played professional football in 2003 with the CFL's Calgary Stampeders.
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Naturally, the article makes no mention of the dozen or more times Soward was caught with razor blades or edged weapons of some kind during his "unfortunate incarceration". It also fails to mention the stabbing that LP endured before Soward's death. The rumor persists that Soward's murder was staged so LP could take the fall for it. LP was charged for the murder, but to my knowledge was never convicted for it. Yellow journalism at its finest. We'll never know the truth of the matter, but the LP story is about as sad as a story can get. The only time he was truly free up until today was when he had a football cradled and was rushing towards the goal line.

Like I stated earlier, some people just need killing.
 
My favorite memory of LP was the 94 K State game in Manhattan. I think the MildCats were ranked #1 going into that game. Frazier & Beringer were hurt, do 3rd string QB got the start. The weather sucked, and LP injured a hand, was in plenty of pain, and actually was sidelined for almost half the game.

Basically it was hand the ball to LP and turn him loose. The MildCats went into the game ranked #1...but they didn't end the game the #1 team. We went on to win the National Championship that season, and the next as well.

Amazing what a 3rd string QB and an injured RB did against the #1 ranked team that day. ;-)
 
He was a great guy alright. If he'd just not been arrested those 15 or 20 times for harming others.

As a thug and felony criminal, he could have had anything he wanted. Except he was given so many second chances he thought he could get away with anything.
 
loomixguy said:
My favorite memory of LP was the 94 K State game in Manhattan. I think the MildCats were ranked #1 going into that game. Frazier & Beringer were hurt, do 3rd string QB got the start. The weather sucked, and LP injured a hand, was in plenty of pain, and actually was sidelined for almost half the game.

Basically it was hand the ball to LP and turn him loose. The MildCats went into the game ranked #1...but they didn't end the game the #1 team. We went on to win the National Championship that season, and the next as well.

Amazing what a 3rd string QB and an injured RB did against the #1 ranked team that day. ;-)
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that was a #2 Nebraska beating a #16 KSU by a final of 17-6. try getting facts before typing my liberal husker friend.... KSU was ranked #1 in 1998, just 10 years after a Sports Illustrated article calling them "futility U" where KSU was considering dropping football all together. we went on to lose in double overtime to aTm in the title game that year....
 
Mike said:
He was a great guy alright. If he'd just not been arrested those 15 or 20 times for harming others.

As a thug and felony criminal, he could have had anything he wanted. Except he was given so many second chances he thought he could get away with anything.
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Had LP played for an SEC school, he would have gotten away with anything, at least during his college career.
 
Tragic life. So much compromised by uncontrollable deamons. That story is told far too often. I don't know if those kind of monsters are made by terrible background or just as easily being pampered and adulation. LP ran his race and his greatness was as extreme as his evil. This version is just so hollowing.
 
loomixguy said:
Mike said:
He was a great guy alright. If he'd just not been arrested those 15 or 20 times for harming others.

As a thug and felony criminal, he could have had anything he wanted. Except he was given so many second chances he thought he could get away with anything.
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Had LP played for an SEC school, he would have gotten away with anything, at least during his college career.
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He got away with anything & everything in the Big 8. During his college career....................

Lot of people say that set the tone for the rest of his life. TO will have to live with that.
 
Being suspended/benched for a fair amount of the season is getting away with anything & everything?

Don't worry about TO. He did what he thought was right. Some people can't be saved.
 
And your "God" Saban thinks that LP was one of the top 2 RB's he'd ever seen in his life.

Had LP kept his nose clean, he would have been a shoo in for the Heisman. Once LP was out of the Heisman picture, the media hatred for Nebraska kept Tommy Frazier from Heisman contention...and after LP, Tommy had as legit a shot at it as anybody. But that's OK. The Huskers are used to it.

Haters gonna hate.
 

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