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[QUOTE="All4SU, post: 3942563, member: 381"]
First of all, one presumes the coaches would be smarter about who gets the number than fans on a fan board.

I go back and forth on this topic, but let me get out of the way that I don’t think it’s a stupid thing for fans to discuss in the off-season. It’s what fans do, or at least should do.

I have come around to the idea that the number should be un-retired. Not saying for Tucker (see my first sentence), but it is a legacy at SU and should be treated as such. And legacies live or they die. It’s great to have statues at Manley, but like everything else, upcoming generations will come to care less and less about those statues if they don’t have some relevance to the current program. Otherwise they just become statues for someone to tear down at some point in the future.

I think the number should be used very selectively for players who want to wear the number. There is nothing wrong with a future great player wearing #22 or #39 or whatever. New traditions are valid too. But if you’re going to keep talking about #44, and it’s obvious the University talks about it a lot, you have to leave open the possibility, the glimmer of hope, that another worthy candidate is out there somewhere and that at some time he can add his name (and likeness) to that list. If that possibility is gone forever, eventually the legacy will be too.
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