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[QUOTE="newmexicuse, post: 2212228, member: 57"]
The numbers should definitely be handed out. The question is how to use them.

If you want to use it as a reward then I would say give them to the top returning seniors each season. Maybe some kids would even come to the Cuse simply for opportunity to compete to wear one of those numbers in the due course of time.

If you want to use it to more immediately help the team, then you use it as a recruiting tool. Some are against this because Evans did not work out relative to expectations (which are only increased if a kid wears # 22 or # 11). I think just because staff made a "mistake" on one kid it doesn't mean that they won't get it right more often then not in the future. The problem; however, is that the time they get it wrong would mean tying up the numbers for four years.

And then again, it does not have to be an either or situation. If the staff wants a recruit badly enough & handing out 22 gets the commitment - why not ? At other times use the senior rule.

The one thing I do not like is the idea of giving it to returning underclassman. Then you are tying up the number for multiple seasons while not being able to use it as any kind of a tool to improve the team.
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