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Message: [QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 3945301, member: 5685"] Konrad was a fullback should he even have worn it? He was a great talent but his college stats did not fit the number 44. Owens was talented but production wise he did not live up to the number. The number has history in BBall too. Why limit it to RBs when we have had only 3 worthy 44s and none in the last 50 years? If kids don't live up to it then it just dilutes the number. Look at our top RBs all time or top single seasons. None of those guys wore 44. Had they worn the number it would still have meaning (Morris, Reyes, Csonka, Mungro, Walker, Dee Brown, Rhodes. Nance, plus the guys here while the number was retired DC3, Jerome Smith, PTG, Brinkley, Neal). If our top RBs are choosing not to wear it, how does that keep the tradition going? [/QUOTE]