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[QUOTE="BKCuse, post: 1774096, member: 3920"]
You guys who don't want to use 44 are nuts. We need every possible angle to improve this program and using one the the most historic numbers in the history of sports is an incredible resource.

Leave it in the rafters and it does us no good.

Use it to lure elite RB's to wear Orange and it raises the profile of the entire program AND Davis, Little and Brown.

I think Dino "gets it" since he said no one we're recruiting this year is worthy of it.  And you don't offer it to a recruit to wear day 1 freshman season (although that was done for many kids in previous decades) but rather you let kids earn the right to wear the number by excelling on the field, in the classroom and as a citizen for 1 or 2 years on the Hill before you award the jersey. By then he will be a respected leader of the team and there will be no animosity in the locker room.

BUT you certainly dangle this to the 5 star RB's and tell them if they earn it they will instantly be in the Heisman conversation once they put it on.

and for the record there are PLENTY of elite recruits who aren't entitled brats - that's just silly to say.
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