Ellis Hobbs on graduation day
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Ellis Hobbs on graduation day
Daily News staff
As we told you last week, new Eagles cornerback Ellis Hobbs was heading back to Iowa State for graduation day after finishing the degree that he promised his mother he would get.
Hobbs was among 2,500 students who took part in the ceremony Saturday in Ames, Iowa.
"I think it’s just about finishing," Hobbs said. "Finishing something you start, I always try to do that, no matter what. I made a promise to my mother a long time ago, that was the one thing she was concerned about even before the NFL, before the draft. She said 'Promise me you’ll get your degree, promise me you’ll walk.' Even as busy as I am, I made a promise to her. I think it’s just to make my family proud. The first-born graduating, it’s a good moment right now."
Here is more from Hobbs in a Q&A he did with the school's Web site, gocyclones.com
Good to hear!!!— Huge- Good job, Ellis.— moderndaymesh
- A GOOD EXAMPLE FOR ALL KIDS....GOOD LUCK BROTHER HOBBS....— BADFLY
- good for you, ellis.— tg
- good for you, ellis.— tg
- As Tyra Banks would say, SO WHAT !!(Stern fans will get that one)— friedmozzarella
- From the Des Moines Register: "A rose to Ellis Hobbs, the former ISU cornerback now playing in the NFL, who completed his bachelor's degree four years after leaving Iowa State. Hobbs has a secure job with the Philadelphia Eagles and an annual salary upward of $2 million, so the college degree was more about keeping a promise to his mother. "He told me when he left Iowa State to go to the pros that he'd get his degree," Nettie Hobbs told the Register's Randy Peterson. She told her son "he'd have to deal with me," if he didn't. So congratulations to the grad. And, happy Mother's Day, Mrs. Hobbs.— atp2007
- He's so busy doing what exactly? He is a football player.— scars73
- Iowa State? That's like the 13th grade.— Will T.
- hobbs did not go to college to change the world, but it is good to see he did place a real value on graduating. to scars73 and Will T, going back and completing the program is actually a very hard thing to do when you do not need to bother. This young man will have a good life after football. Congradualions.— dutchman
- Congradualions— tampaPhillyfan
- Congradualions haha— tampaPhillyfan
Comment removed.- Will T: That is not fair to him. He did something he promised his mother and that is admirable. Demeaning a college program is not a fair thing to do and I am sure the college would take issue with your ocmments.— Horlet
- Yay! Now he can get a good job with a good salary! Sorry, I know he promised his mother, but that's just stupid.— dviljoen
