Chargers' Lynn will receive degree at UNLV commencement
Los Angeles Chargers head coach Anthony Lynn will receive his degree from UNLV during the school's commencement ceremony Saturday.
Lynn earned a Bachelor of Arts in interdisciplinary studies. Chargers chairman Dean Spanos will be among those in attendance.
"I just wanted my papers," Lynn said to ESPN's Eric D. Williams. "Mail me my damn diploma, I give it to my mom and I'm done.
"When I told my counselor, when I told her what my plans were, she'd just assumed that I was walking the whole time. I never assumed I was walking. The disappointment on her face when I told her I wasn't coming, it was tough. I thought about it. She made me rethink it. I decided to walk, because if it could inspire one person, then it's worth it."
Lynn began his degree while at Texas Tech in the 1990s and finished online at UNLV. He will miss the team's final two days of minicamp in order to attend the ceremony.
"Football has always been my No. 1 priority," Lynn said. "Sometimes that's good, sometimes that's bad. But I chose football over education, and I kind of did that a few years later when I had a chance to go back; I chose football again over education.
"And so at this time, I thought at some point, no more excuses - just go back and get it done."