The Rock Camp held this week from Monday to Friday at the MSU Community Music School featured The Outer Vibe, a band whose group members taught camp participants different aspects of being in a band, as well as ways to perform and expand their musical skills.
Michael Nichols is a dive instructor at ZZ Underwater World, 2016 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing. The dive center coordinates with MSU, Lansing Community College and other venues to offer classes, and offers its own dives for all levels of experience. Nichols, who was certified in 2004, has done more than 800 dives since then, and said, “Everything is exciting about diving.”
Still in Colorado, Van Dyke began to miss football and decided he wanted to try coaching. His former high school coach, Rich Hulkow, was named the head coach at Olivet College on Dec. 23 and offered Van Dyke the position of quarterbacks coach for the Comets. Van Dyke accepted the job, which Hulkow said he could have as long as he went back to school to graduate.
Van Dyke made his first AFL start Feb. 12 against the Grand Rapids Rampage. He appeared in just two games with the Avengers before he was released by the team and picked up by Grand Rapids, where he ended the season and decided to call it quits from football for good.
After spending some time away from football, Van Dyke came back to the Giants in January 2004 and was allocated to NFL Europe. He was drafted by the Cologne Centurions and went on to lead the league in 2004 in passing yards (2,003) and touchdowns (16). When Van Dyke went back to New York, he was stuck behind Eli Manning, Kurt Warner and Jesse Palmer on the depth chart and was released Sept. 5. Finished with the NFL, Van Dyke signed with the Arena Football League’s Los Angeles Avengers on Nov. 1.
Going undrafted in the 2002 NFL Draft, Van Dyke was signed by the Seattle Seahawks. Joining Matt Hasselback and Trent Dilfer, Van Dyke was with the team until he was released at the end of training camp, before the 2002 season.
After competing with Smoker for the starting quarterback job throughout the spring and fall practices, Van Dyke came off of the bench in all but one of the six games he appeared in. Up until the Spartans’ matchup with Minnesota on Oct. 20, Van Dyke and Smoker again were sharing snaps. But after suffering a broken jaw and concussion against the Gophers, his career at MSU was over. To prepare for the NFL, Van Dyke stopped going to school and focused on football instead.
As the heir to the starting job Bill Burke held on to for two years, Van Dyke was expected to have a breakout season in 2000. However, 17 offensive snaps into the first game against Marshall, he bruised his right thumb when he was hit by two Thundering Herd defenders. Freshman Jeff Smoker came in to replace Van Dyke, and the two split time the rest of the season.
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