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On the "History & Stats" tab above, I found a section on retired jersey's....At the bottom of the page, Trent Tucker was listed with #33 by his name. Then I realized the photo of Tucker scoring a basket, showed him wearing the #32. I thought about the current Gophers (Rodney #33 and Trevor #32) and wonder if Tucker gave back his Jersey or agreed to un-retire it? Anybody know?
 

The U retires jersey's, not numbers.

Go Gophers!!
 

I might be making this up, but I seem to remember they used to retire numbers and it changed with Tucker. I think the reasoning was they wanted to honor more people, but still have the uniform numbers available. I believe the first four numbers were retired.

I googled it, but couldn't find anything...so I am probably making it up.
 

When did they retire McHale's jersey?

Wikipedia says 1980, but Shasky wore that number too.
 



In the case of McHale, Thompson, Brewer and Hudson, those numbers are retired. When they began looking at other people they wanted to honor, they decided to begin retiring jerseys, rather than numbers. They will still honor the first four by not giving those numbers out (as I understand), but beginning with Tucker, the jersey is retired, but the number is not.
 


alltimetwinsfan said:
In the case of McHale, Thompson, Brewer and Hudson, those numbers are retired. When they began looking at other people they wanted to honor, they decided to begin retiring jerseys, rather than numbers. They will still honor the first four by not giving those numbers out (as I understand), but beginning with Tucker, the jersey is retired, but the number is not.
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That's what I thought, but I couldn't find where I saw/heard it, maybe it was on TV when they were retiring his jersey.
 

wow! That makes no sense to me....Of course the Jerseys are retired...Who's gonna wanna wear a 35 year old jersey...But the numbers not being retired kinda defeats the purpose of the honor...Dumb!
 




brucekaupa said:
When did they retire McHale's jersey?

Wikipedia says 1980, but Shasky wore that number too.
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McHales retired jersey important, brucekaupa changing his profile picture, epic. Bruce, why the change of photo? No seriously why?
 


Moses87 said:
wow! That makes no sense to me....Of course the Jerseys are retired...Who's gonna wanna wear a 35 year old jersey...But the numbers not being retired kinda defeats the purpose of the honor...Dumb!
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Sounds dumb to me also. No one on the Iowa team wears Chris Street's No. 40. Why retire the jersey but not the number?
 



UofMdad said:
Sounds dumb to me also. No one on the Iowa team wears Chris Street's No. 40. Why retire the jersey but not the number?
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Because it honors the player that wore the jersey..no one else will have the name with the number...and in recruiting, many kids will only come if they can wear their favorite number that they had in high school
 

DocfromDarwin said:
Because it honors the player that wore the jersey..no one else will have the name with the number...and in recruiting, many kids will only come if they can wear their favorite number that they had in high school
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If there are any recruits that petulant, I'd tell them to go F # @ K themselves.
 

DocfromDarwin said:
Because it honors the player that wore the jersey..no one else will have the name with the number...and in recruiting, many kids will only come if they can wear their favorite number that they had in high school
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I can see it now. 5 star Diamond Stone wants to play for Iowa, but because he can't wear #40 he decides to play for Iowa State. Panic time in Iowa City.
 

UofMdad said:
I can see it now. 5 star Diamond Stone wants to play for Iowa, but because he can't wear #40 he decides to play for Iowa State. Panic time in Iowa City.
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Then there are probably the ones that don't really care about wearing the same number that they had in HS, all they worry about is having their name on the back their jersey..........no way they would show up if teammate already was wearing that..............................oh wait.:cool:
 

If I couldn't have my favorite number, I would choose a PWO at NDSU instead of a scholly at Minnesota.
 

Moses87 said:
On the "History & Stats" tab above, I found a section on retired jersey's....At the bottom of the page, Trent Tucker was listed with #33 by his name. Then I realized the photo of Tucker scoring a basket, showed him wearing the #32. I thought about the current Gophers (Rodney #33 and Trevor #32) and wonder if Tucker gave back his Jersey or agreed to un-retire it? Anybody know?
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I just remembered...........back in the day, players would have an even number for their home uniform and an odd number for their road uniform, usually the next number up. I remeber this being true for HS, can't say for sure about college. Anyone remember?
 

station19 said:
I just remembered...........back in the day, players would have an even number for their home uniform and an odd number for their road uniform, usually the next number up. I remeber this being true for HS, can't say for sure about college. Anyone remember?
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I remember that as well... Back in my HS days, I was 10 and 11. Not sure if they did that for college or not...
 

#10 White Home
became #11 Dark, away. Etc.

I was the first coach in our conference who went with the same numbers home or away. The reason was, when I was coaching, I put the home numbers in the scorebook at an away game. It cost us 5 technicals, by rule, to change the numbers at the start of the game. We still won the game by double digits, but man it was embarrassing to start the game down 4-0 (they missed one of the 5), plus they got the ball out of bounds to start the game. My boys just laughed with me, we all shook our heads, and went to work. But I can guarantee you, they never let me forget that incident.

From that point on, I always used the same numbers on both home and away uniforms.
 

Moses87 said:
wow! That makes no sense to me....Of course the Jerseys are retired...Who's gonna wanna wear a 35 year old jersey...But the numbers not being retired kinda defeats the purpose of the honor...Dumb!
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The issue is logistics and almost all schools now do it this way. Heck, go to Illinois, they have about 30 jerseys hanging in the rafters.

The key problem is there are literally only 36 possible jersey numbers in college basketball. Thinking this through, schools started to realize (assuming that college basketball continues to exist for a long time), that 100 years from now, a program could quite easily be down to only a handful of usuable jersey numbers if they kept retiring the actual number.
 

tjgopher said:
The issue is logistics and almost all schools now do it this way. Heck, go to Illinois, they have about 30 jerseys hanging in the rafters.

The key problem is there are literally only 36 possible jersey numbers in college basketball. Thinking this through, schools started to realize (assuming that college basketball continues to exist for a long time), that 100 years from now, a program could quite easily be down to only a handful of usuable jersey numbers if they kept retiring the actual number.
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HUH?
 



BucktheFadgers said:
The refs only have 5 fingers on each hand....you figure the rest out.
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Yeah it sank in after I posted but what the hell, other sports make it work without refs using fingers. Hell, give them a 7-fingered glove to use.
 



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