Ndamukong Suh Donated 123 iPads To Nebraska Football Team

by Sean Yuille on Jul 31, 2010 1:33 PM EDT in Detroit Lions News Comment 16 comments

While we wait for news about Ndamukong Suh's contract to break, I wanted to pass along this story from Sean Callahan of HuskersIllustrated.com:

Pretty cool...Ndamukong Suh donated 123 ipads to the Nebraska football team making them the first known pro or college team to have them.

Suh previously donated $2 million to Nebraska's strength and conditioning program and $600,000 to NU's engineering school. iPads vary in price depending on what features they have and how much memory you get, but if he got the NU football team 123 iPads with Wi-Fi and 32 GB of memory, it would have cost him around $74,000. That's not exactly a ton of money to someone who is about to get around $40 million guaranteed, but then again, it's not like he's required to give back to his school. So to that, I say job well done, Ndamukong.

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He's a classy guy.

I like that he doesn’t forget where he came from. Hopefully 30 years from now, he’ll be appearing at a bunch of charity functions as “Ndamukong Suh, Hall of Famer, Super Bowl Champion” in the Detroit area.

by RobertPorcher on Jul 31, 2010 1:54 PM EDT reply actions

It obvious

Suh is aware he didn’t get here by himself. Boom or Bust I will be a fan of this guy. Class Act he’s what you want all rookies to be.

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by The Profiler on Jul 31, 2010 2:01 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

I think the pertinent question is

what are they going to be reading on them?

[...]when Giants coach Steve Owen, a certified defensive genius, was asked how he planned to stop Nagurski, he said: "With a shotgun, as he’s leaving the dressing room."

by NobodySpecial on Jul 31, 2010 2:12 PM EDT reply actions

Game plans

It would be a great if they could put the game plans and films on them. That way the players could study them where ever they want.

by BBlades on Jul 31, 2010 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions

Would they be easy to hack?

[...]when Giants coach Steve Owen, a certified defensive genius, was asked how he planned to stop Nagurski, he said: "With a shotgun, as he’s leaving the dressing room."

by NobodySpecial on Jul 31, 2010 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions

for someone that knows how to.. i would tink yea

by det32 on Jul 31, 2010 2:33 PM EDT up reply actions

ipad is probably more secure than a paper playbook

They can encrypt and password-protect any content they want. Books don’t have any protection from hacking.

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by n4ry4 on Jul 31, 2010 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions

yes and no.. easyer to get the ipad b/c you can acses t from a computer.. u cant do that with papper

by det32 on Jul 31, 2010 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions

That's what I was thinking

Wouldn’t be surprised if they create an app for something like that. Would be pretty cool.

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by Sean Yuille on Jul 31, 2010 2:34 PM EDT up reply actions

And for the security reasons

I bet they are not the 3g versions. Possibly they will lock the wifi off.

I could see some compsci football fans of an opposing university seeing this as a challenge: break the ipad AND get all of NUs playbook. Tempting.

by ATL Lion on Jul 31, 2010 3:24 PM EDT up reply actions

Isaiah Ekejiuba's will be #50

Big shoes to fill! lol

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by Leapin Lion on Jul 31, 2010 2:39 PM EDT reply actions

the shoes are actually undersized, but they might work well in a different system

Hey that's a timeout, I can play right? yeah, get me--get the F-- Help me up...I can throw the ball if you need me to throw the ball...

by n4ry4 on Jul 31, 2010 2:40 PM EDT up reply actions

He likes dogs

But do you think he has any snakes?

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by Leapin Lion on Jul 31, 2010 2:43 PM EDT up reply actions

Zing!

by ATL Lion on Jul 31, 2010 3:24 PM EDT up reply actions

Good on him

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by Hyperion Ecta on Jul 31, 2010 8:08 PM EDT reply actions

am I allowed to disagree?

Sure donating things is definitely cool, but couldn’t he have donated them to, I don’t know, a high school? Or bought 74 iMacs for an elementary school somewhere? what he did was basically buy a bunch of toys for his friends. It’s definitely nice, but I don’t think it’s particularly noble.

by sgdbw90 on Jul 31, 2010 11:47 PM EDT reply actions