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Message: [QUOTE="Dick_in_MI, post: 4052443, member: 225"] You seem to be confusing Sean's current statements and my personal feelings about #44. Right from the start I have advocated for giving him the number. Right from the start. You are correct; the program currently has no story to tell. None. Of course it is about marketing SU football and the tremendous upside of keeping the tradition alive. Who does not understand that? Anyone? And from my personal communication with the AD they are botching it this year. Perhaps he will get it next year but I can understand how he might feel the way he now does. Everybody and their dog wants him to wear #44. The ghost of Joe Paterno probably wants him to wear it. But there is awkward hemming and hawing from SU, statements from Rob Konrad and Floyd's widow, and it has become a somewhat embarrassing circus for a kid who appears to be pretty humble. And I disagree with you; it has a LOT to do with Sean Tucker because if Sean didn't exist the number would be still locked in a vault, and it would be yet another year removed from past greatness without anyone caring. It is solely because of his performance this year that we are even having this discussion. As for "greatness", he is close to that by the standards of SU and certainly by the standards of the ten who have worn the number since Jim Brown. We get too hung up on Jim, Ernie, and Floyd; there were many before Jim and ten after him. Sean is as deserving as most of them and when he seemingly has to jump through hoops to please the self-appointed keepers of what little flame there is left in the tradition, is it any wonder why he might think about blazing his own trail? Of course it is a no-brainer to give him #44; you and I both know it and that is what has made it frustrating for we fans and very likely for Sean as well. [/QUOTE]

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