Troy Aikman Is Now a College Graduate

by Mark HastyFiled under: Oklahoma, UCLA, Campus, General CFB InsanityOkay, so maybe your cousin who's on the 12-year undergraduate plan isn't such a slacker after all. Former UCLA and Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman (right) finally graduated from UCLA on Saturday, more than two decades after he left for the NFL.Aikman is already a member of the Pro and College Football Halls of Fame. Though he is a native Californian, Aikman attended high school in Oklahoma and started out playing for Barry Switzer's Oklahoma Sooners. Aikman proved to be ill-suited for Switzer's run-oriented offense, however. Switzer helped Aikman transfer to UCLA after Aikman lost his starting job to Jamelle Holieway. At UCLA, Aikman won the 1988 Davey O'Brien Award.Tom Landry, whose Dallas Cowboys held the first pick in the 1989 NFL Draft, thought Aikman was just the quarterback he needed to bring the glory days back to Dallas. There was, of course, just one little problem with Landry&#...