Watch Rutgers coach Eddie Jordan graduate from Rutgers

This past season, Rutgers didn't just have student-athletes as a part of its basketball program. It also had a student-coach.

Head basketball coach Eddie Jordan has been working to complete his degree from what is now officially his alma mater after it was discovered when he was hired that he hadn't completed his degree back in the 1970s when he attended Rutgers. His old course of study no longer exists, so Jordan has been taking classes just like thousands of other students to complete his degree in the School of Management and Labor Relations at the university.

This weekend, he received his degree and walked in the school's commencement ceremony, an experience that you can tell from this Rutgers video, Jordan really seemed to enjoy.

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"It was a lot of work, but it was no more than any other student," Jordan said in the video. "I even did extra credit when I could. But as far as putting both tasks together, being a coach and being a student, it was challenging but it was rewarding.

"It's been a distraction the last three weeks because I've been thinking about the festivities and the ceremonies and commencement as opposed to doing my last finals and my last papers, but it's finally here, I'm finally done. For the sacrifices my mother made to send me to school when I was in high school, that's why I wanted to walk. I wanted to go through the entire commencement, go through the whole ceremonies. I just want to be a normal student. I know I'm not, but I enjoy it like I would if I would've graduated in '77."

It's really cool that Jordan participated in the commencement ceremony with his fellow students. And as he somewhat addressed in the video, it seems he now has at least a little bit of a first-hand idea of what his players are going through when it comes to time management and balancing school and basketball in the 21st century.

Congratulations, coach!