At halftime of the Mississippi State game.
Dude was a coverage nightmare.
Dude was a coverage nightmare.
Alshon's jersey # being retired
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Putting his name on the press box or retiring his jersey #? I highly doubt we’re retiring the #1. Though I know they use weird language dealing with these things. I guess I should just ask where you are hearing this from?
Well-deserved for Alshon, though I am a bit shocked Marcus Lattimore didn’t happen. I know he had 2 major injuries, but everyone knew what Lattimore meant to those teams. Wondering is the relationship with the university is worse than expected…
Connor Shaw needs to be honored too. We also have some great players overlooked that played before the Spurrier era. Sheldon Brown, Duce Staley, Steve Taneyhill, John Abraham, etc…
I’m all for putting his number up in the stadium to be honored, but the whole retiring of the jersey thing is kind of dumb if you ask me. #1 is still going to get worn so nothing is really getting retired.
I saw on a Payton manning show what Denver did for the retired # 18 jersey, after unretiring it for Peyton, and then after his retirement.
I thought it was kind of funny looking
I thought it was kind of funny looking
That looks terrible. They should’ve just put another 18 up there with Manning.I saw on a Payton manning show what Denver did for the retired # 18 jersey, after unretiring it for Peyton, and then after his retirement.
I thought it was kind of funny looking
The post I saw said they are retiring his #1 jersey. However that is to be interpreted.
I have no issue with retiring Alson's jersey (or number, or whatever they want to call it), except that not having yet honored Shaw in the same way seems like a gaping hole to me. We honor these guys for what they did for us, not for their NFL careers. Our all-time winningest QB should be up there.
Agree Shaw should be honored. I’d say there is some criteria to this as well. Both Clowney and Alshon were All-Americans. Wonder how the selections are made.
I disagree. Create a Ring of Honor. Add people to that. Stop calling it retiring the number. In fact, put all numbers back in circulation. Sterling will get over it in due time.
It is crazy we’re doing so much of this for football, when Michael Roth still hasn’t been honored for baseball. When it comes to dominating their sport, Roth > Alshon.
We just need to stop calling it retiring numbers. But we are SO FAR behind in honoring those great players that have played for us…glad to see us waking up.
Going forward I’d like to see some criteria though. One, if a guy transfers out, that disqualifies them. I’d also like to see only players who played here for 3 years, unless they did something crazy like win the Heisman. Shoot, it would be nice to say they had to graduate. Doesn’t mean 4 years, but they can come back to finish if they leave early.
In my opinion, Spurrier should be honored before Alshon. Obviously criteria is different for coaches. Not that Alshon isn’t deserving. Though I’d say he’s on the fringe. I do appreciate the fact that he stayed in state and chose us over So Cal and produced big time. That probably puts him over the edge and same with Clowney who was honored last season.
What you propose takes this issue of "retiring" numbers or jerseys out of play. But as long as that issue is in play, I am in diametrical disagreement with what is being done now.
What needs to happen is that such retirements need to be extremely selective and current players ought to be accorded the same level of exclusivity in their commemorations as players of the past. It's an honest difference of opinion, but I am unmalleable on this point.
What is done now downgrades both the player and the specialness of the honor itself. But I don't think we need to duck the issue with an expedient alternative. I say correct the "retirement" practice where it has gone wrong.
I think we agree more than you think. I too believe the honor should be more selective. I just don’t think any jersey # should be retired.
I do still feel we have some players that have been overlooked in the past. Spurrier tried to recognize by putting records up in the stadium, but those can change. Which I think is kind of the point…it needs to be selective because hopefully we have more successful players in the future to honor.
If we start honoring 1 player every season all of a sudden, we’re going to run out of room for a bunch of names that produced a mediocre history.
Selectivity is the key to all of it, but the retiring of numbers has many years of precedent behind it. I think it is a tradition that need not go away.
What you do for George Rogers need not be as pedestrian as what you do for Marcus Lattimore. Rogers is number retirement territory; Lattimore is not. It's easy to see the distinction.
There are still plenty of available numbers, or should be if the system hasn't been abused. Don't make it about recruiting snotty-nosed kids that might turn out to be not even worth having, and statistically speaking, probably won't be nearly as good as the player whose exploits led to the number's original retirement.