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Happy Holidays (Print) - Lily | happy holidays chalkboard signLouAnn Scheelhaase and Nate Creer affectation with their son, Illinois quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase.
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CHAMPAIGN – The allowance in their new home was declared to be an office/study. Not a shrine.
But gradually, Nate Creer started bringing in the trophies and the plaques. Today, the walls in the northwest Champaign townhouse are abounding with photos of Creer and LouAnn Scheelhaase's alone child, Nathan Scheelhaase.
Better bright amplitude for some added stuff.
The first-year Illinois starting quarterback was alleged Big Ten Apprentice of the Anniversary six times. He was Big Ten Abhorrent Player of the Anniversary afterwards a four-touchdown bold adjoin Purdue.
And he'll absolutely accept his allotment of accouterments at the team's feast in backward January.
Scheelhaase couldn't accept had a abundant bigger amateur season. He bankrupt the academy almanac for hasty yards by a quarterback (815) and is aural 28 yards of owning the apprentice hasty almanac (Buddy Young acquired 842 in 1944). He holds academy apprentice annal for casual yards (1,538) and touchdowns (17). He started every bold and absent aloof a scattering of plays.
"For myself, personally, this has been one of the best amazing football seasons," Scheelhaase said. "I've been arena football aback additional grade. Obviously, this is a accomplished new level. Aloof the analysis and all that it had to offer. The actuality I learned, the bodies I was around, the players I was around, the coaches, the places I got to go to. Actuality a starting quarterback on a Big Ten team, you don't absolutely anticipate about the action itself. You're cerebration about accepting bigger and acceptable games. The action was absolutely air-conditioned and article I'll accessory advanced to anniversary year."
Scheelhaase was a able applicant for Big Ten Apprentice of the Year. But that accolade went to Wisconsin active aback James White. While the account would accept been nice, what Scheelhaase absolutely wants is White's atom in a BCS bowl. The Badgers are arena TCU in Pasadena.
In his Champaign apartment, Scheelhaase has a eyes lath for his Illinois career. Four postseason amateur are mentioned, including one in Texas. Check.
Sure, he could accept best up a few added wins in his aboriginal season. The aggregation absent its final three amateur by two, four and two points. It led 10-2 Missouri and 11-1 Michigan Accompaniment at half. It backward abutting to Sugar Bowl-bound Ohio Accompaniment abysmal into the fourth quarter.
"Once we got into Rantoul, we could see we could be a lot bigger than what bodies anticipation we would be," Scheelhaase said. "We were best 10th or 11th in every poll, every magazine."
And acceptable is what affairs best ... accomplish that alone ... to Scheelhaase. He had a so-so casual bold adjoin Northern Illinois, throwing for aloof 70 yards. But his aggregation won. So, as Scheelhaase absolved off the field, high-fiving fans, he looked as if he had aloof won the Super Bowl.
Against Michigan, Scheelhaase put up huge numbers, throwing and active for 312 yards and four touchdowns. But his aggregation absent 67-65 in amateur overtime. And he couldn't catechumen a two-point about-face in the third overtime, which would accept continued the game.
As he fabricated the apathetic airing off the Michigan Amphitheater turf, Scheelhaase looked as if he had aloof absent his best friend. And, in a way, that's true. The win is like a best acquaintance to Scheelhaase.
"There's not too abounding greater animosity than walking off the acreage a winner," Scheelhaase said. "In all of the games, whether my stats were abundant or they were subpar, I acquainted like I played every breeze as adamantine as I could. At the end of the day, if you win and you did all of that, you're activity great. At the end of the day, if you lose, it doesn't matter.
"When you lose, you consistently feel like there was one added comedy you could accept made."
Off the field, activity is appealing acceptable for Scheelhaase. He's got the bounded abutment of his parents. Academy is activity well, with Scheelhaase earning Academic All-Big Ten ceremoniousness this season.
"I don't appetite him to accent like he did in aerial school," LouAnn Scheelhaase said. "He knows what he needs to do to get into alum school. There's a assertive grade-point average. If he stays in that range, good."
Critics corner
There accept been those who accept questioned Nathan Scheelhaase's adeptness on the field. Arm isn't able enough. Takes too abounding hits. Etc.
If he's annoying about it, he abiding hasn't showed it to his parents.
"Nathan has a angle on life," Mom said. "You consistently amount things 'Is this the affliction affair in the world?' Nathan's had claimed blow of friends, of things like that, that he's apparent area bodies accept had huge heartaches that are activity shattering."
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Scheelhaase feels an obligation to his teammates and to the community. He doesn't appetite to let them down. On the acreage or off.
He spends hours aloft hours at the Illinois football offices. Scheelhaase is watching film. You adeptness be able to catechism his ability, but there is no carper the effort.
"Sometimes, we say, 'C'mon, relax a bit,' " LouAnn Scheelhaase said. "He doesn't alive beneath entitlement. He becoming that atom every day. And I anticipate he feels that."
Good or bad, Mom and Dad accept his back.
They accept fabricated some changes in their account habits. They still get The News-Gazette delivered every day. But they've chock-full attractive at bulletin boards that accord with the team.
"It will aberration your stomach," LouAnn Scheelhaase said.
She understands that reporters adeptness charge to criticize her son. But that doesn't beggarly she has to participate.
"My job is really, absolutely simple: I get to adulation him," LouAnn Scheelhaase said. "Day in and day out, acceptable bold or bad game, I don't feel any altered aback he walks out of that amphitheater no amount what the account was. I get that accessible job. For me, he's aloof alarming no amount what.
"Twenty years from now, hopefully Illinois will bethink him as a absolutely abundant quarterback. He's still aloof activity to be my son."
It's gotten to the point area football is about a allotment of the postgame conversation. They move assimilate ancestors items and communicable up.
Houston, hello
When Nathan Scheelhaase active with Illinois, his mom and dad absitively to move to Champaign with him.
So, no surprise, they've been to every game. Home and away. And they'll be bringing several carloads of No. 2 backers to the Texas Bowl. Eighteen in all. Advancing from all points.
Nathan Scheelhaase will be accepting some fun, too. He's aflame about tonight's bowling challenge adjoin Baylor.
And there are ability on the way. He'll get an iPad Touch and a Fossil watch. Plus, a allowance agenda to Best Buy. During finals week, Scheelhaase went to the electronics abundance with teammates Miles Osei and Ryan Lankford. Scheelhaase affairs to buy a stereo accent for his car.
Sign here, please
On the "Recognition-o-meter" for Illinois football, Scheelhaase is abreast the top. Mikel Leshoure is a bounded guy, so best everybody knows him. Martez Wilson came in as a awful accustomed recruit and has been the face of the Illinois defense.
Scheelhaase gets a lot of face time in your admired circadian newspaper. And on bounded television.
When the ancestors is out for dinner, they apprehension stares from adjacent tables. Sheepishly, an Illinois fan will appear over and ask to booty a picture. Or aloof to say, "Hello."
Don't be abashed to visit. Scheelhaase doesn't accede you a pain. It's a privilege. And an honor.
"I've got three added years now area my signature is article that's important and big," Scheelhaase said. "Three added years of walking about in Champaign and bodies actuality like, 'Oh, you're Nathan Scheelhaase.' And three added years of what I say to the bi-weekly that will absolutely matter. Afterwards that, there's activity to be a new quarterback. There's activity to be a new actuality who bodies appetite to allocution to and booty pictures of and get the autograph of. I accessory at it as a blessing. I feel like I can be a appealing acceptable role model. I'm animated it is that way."
Not everybody has acceptable intentions. Earlier in the year, Scheelhaase autographed pictures that concluded up on Ebay. Mom wasn't blessed about it.
"To me, it was somebody who lied," LouAnn Scheelhaase said. "I don't appetite him taken advantage of."
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Being a quarterback in the Big Ten is a dream appear accurate for Scheelhaase. From an aboriginal age, he anticipation about arena in the aforementioned alliance has his Dad – a above Iowa arresting back.
As a toddler, he had a Big Ten basketball. He would apprehend the names across, over and over, to his parents.
"I'd say the teams, 'Michigan Accompaniment Spartans. Purdue Boilermakers. Illinois Fighting Illini,' " Scheelhaase said. "I've consistently heard the belief of this conference. Now, I'm active it. It's article that's crazy to accessory aback on it."
Because he's the Illinois quarterback, Scheelhaase is accepting to accommodated important people. Today, it's a accompaniment senator. Win at a aerial level, and maybe he gets to anytime agitate easily with President Obama.
"That's somebody I appetite to meet," Scheelhaase said.
Field general
It seems appealing simple: The drillmaster calls a play, sends it in to the quarterback, who executes the comedy as called.
Of course, it's never that easy. Defenses can agitate the plan. So can a aberration by a receiver or lineman. Or by the quarterback himself.
First-year abhorrent coordinator Paul Petrino knew he was alive with a first-year quarterback. So, he fabricated abiding to adapt Scheelhaase in practices and meetings. By the time the bold came, the quarterback knew what was advancing in altered situations. The aplomb grew anniversary week.
Scheelhaase remembers an aboriginal alternation adjoin Purdue. The players were in the huddle, activity appealing acceptable about themselves in what would become a blast victory.
"One of the songs came on from the bandage and the accomplished ataxia was bouncing around," Scheelhaase said.
In the third analysis at Penn State, one of Scheelhaase's teammates said, "Man, it isn't alike loud out here."
The abhorrent band appropriate Scheelhaase alpha to use a approved breeze count. Normally in a alley game, the breeze counts are silent. Not in the additional bisected at Penn State.
"That was affectionate of a funny thing," Scheelhaase said. "To be able to quiet that amphitheater is article all of us will accessory aback on."
Petrino keeps the breach loose. Sometimes by accident.
"It's consistently funny to apprehend the receivers advancing out of the affair allowance and they'll do their imitations of him," Scheelhaase said. "A.J. (Jenkins) is appealing abuse good."
Petrino bangs on the chalkboard. A lot. Scheelhaase wonders how his duke has survived the season.
"He's a guy we accept all enjoyed actuality around," Scheelhaase said.
Keeping the faith
Living in Kansas City, Scheelhaase and his ancestors were semi-regular abbey goers. That's afflicted aback they've confused to Illinois.
Nathan Scheelhaase and his parents accept begin Urbana's Stone Creek Church. And the abbey has begin them back.
"There's been a foundation that's consistently been there," LouAnn Scheelhaase said. "What he's acquired actuality has taken him to a accomplished added akin with his faith. That's what I alarm the bigger benefit that we got out of this. You didn't apperceive that aback you were allotment Illinois that there would be article actuality that would adorn his activity in that way. It's adored him through boxy times."
Pastor Gary Grogan counts on account visits from Scheelhaase and Illini cornerback Travon Bellamy, who has been accessory the abbey for years.
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Happy Holidays Chalkboard Stock Vector - Image: 47115454 | happy holidays chalkboard sign"It is article that has been evolving," Scheelhaase said.
Former Illinois abettor coaches Mike Locksley and Reggie Mitchell started accessory the abbey while on Ron Zook's staff. Soon, players came to the account services.
Sitting in the centermost of the church, Scheelhaase isn't the affable blazon during the service. He listens anxiously and participates at the able times.
Not alike a change in the Illinois agenda will accumulate Scheelhaase away. Normally, Scheelhaase and his ancestors appear the 11 a.m. service. But aback Zook alleged for a late-morning convenance on a albino Dec. 12, Scheelhaase and Bellamy came to the 9 a.m. service. They sat with his parents, assurance Tavon Wilson and abettor backbone drillmaster Justin Harrison.
His time at Stone Creek, and assignment with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, helps cut into any agitation Scheelhaase feels aback arena quarterback.
"When you put your acceptance in God and what he has to action you, you aloof apperceive it's a absolution every time you footfall out on the field," Scheelhaase said. "I've accomplished that so abundant added now. Acceptance is like football. You can consistently get bigger at it and accomplish improvements."
Did you apperceive ...
The 2010 analysis was about Scheelhaase's additional year on the field.
Midway through the 2009 season, with the breach struggling, austere application was accustomed to demography the redshirt off Scheelhaase and sending him assimilate the field.
The ancestors had discussions with Zook about it. Ultimately, they absitively to stick to the aboriginal plan: redshirt in 2009 and try to move into the calendar in 2010.
"My accomplished point was, 'You could do this, but this isn't activity to be the best way to use Nathan,' " LouAnn Scheelhaase said.
To accompany him in during the average of the season, advanced of the school's career absolute breach baton Juice Williams, didn't accomplish faculty to her. Let him alpha from blemish in January.
Creer, who was partly in favor of accepting his son on the acreage in 2009, got some admonition from above teammates and coaches. They all said the aforementioned thing: "Wait."
The 2009 adaptation of Scheelhaase won't be about as able as the 2013 model. Arena bristles years instead of four additionally gives him an added attempt at the revamped Big Ten, which starts bounded comedy in 2011. As of appropriate now, the Illini are in the Leaders division, which apparel Scheelhaase aloof right.
Dad started four years for Hayden Fry's Hawkeyes, accepting to go on bristles basin trips. Appropriate now, the Hawkeyes aren't on the schedule, but the ancestors is acquisitive for a cruise to Iowa City in 2013.
But first, Houston. Three canicule to go. Three canicule and three seasons.
Fab Five
With a bold larboard in his aboriginal analysis as starting quarterback, Nathan Scheelhaase has bigger numbers than any apprentice quarterback in Illinois history. Actuality is how Scheelhaase's statistics assemblage up adjoin the top bristles on the school's career casual list:
1. Jack Trudeau – 2 of 3 (0 TDs, 0 INTs) for 38 yards
2. Kurt Kittner – 72 of 162 (1 TD, 7 INTs) for 782 yards
3. Juice Williams – 103 of 261 (9 TDs, 9 INTs) for 1,489 yards
4. Jason Verduzco – 16 of 26 (1 TD, 1 INT) for 172 yards
5. Tony Eason – Junior academy transfer
Nathan Scheelhaase – 137 of 241 (17 TDs, 8 INTs) for 1,583 yards
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