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Congrats to Trent Tucker for having his jersey retired last night. He is truly a Gopher great and continues to do good things in the Twin Cities community.
The U of M's "jersey retirement policy" change in 2004 states "only the jersey now is retired and not the number of the former student-athlete". Their reasoning for this is "to preserve a broad range of numbers that could be worn by current student-athletes on a team". Even though Trent Tucker has had his jersey retired someone can still wear his number because we want "to preserve a broad range of numbers that could be worn by current student-athletes on a team". Gopher hoops has a long history and now has only five players with "retired jerseys". Are we really concerned with running out of jersey numbers for our 13 student-athletes on the roster? To me this seems pretty lame. Why do we even put up a banner with "Trent Tucker 32" in the rafters then? Why not just "Trent Tucker" since we didn't retire his number?
Wondering what you all think of the U's policy?
The U of M's "jersey retirement policy" change in 2004 states "only the jersey now is retired and not the number of the former student-athlete". Their reasoning for this is "to preserve a broad range of numbers that could be worn by current student-athletes on a team". Even though Trent Tucker has had his jersey retired someone can still wear his number because we want "to preserve a broad range of numbers that could be worn by current student-athletes on a team". Gopher hoops has a long history and now has only five players with "retired jerseys". Are we really concerned with running out of jersey numbers for our 13 student-athletes on the roster? To me this seems pretty lame. Why do we even put up a banner with "Trent Tucker 32" in the rafters then? Why not just "Trent Tucker" since we didn't retire his number?
Wondering what you all think of the U's policy?