Mikeyshooter said:
Am I the only one who is a little pissed off that his number is up in the rafters? I know my annoyance with Buzz influences my feelings, but the whole thing is starting to look stupid.
How is it "starting" to look stupid? Whether Wade pans out as a pro is completely irrelevant.
I don't like the way Buzz did it, but I don't mind his jersey being up there, just wish it would have been the typical way where we bring him back in a few years, show a highlight video, etc. Retiring it on his last game was a little silly, though at least it served as a pretty clear final nail that Buzz was trying to get out of here.
I do think you need some kind of set rules for hanging up a jersey though just to prevent awkward debates about it. For us I'd say something like being a first-team All-American once or first team all-conference twice is pretty good.
Under those qualifications, we'd need to add a handful of jerseys from back in the day.
First Team All Americans: Broussard, Beasley
2x all conference: Lennox, Parker, Davis, R. Wright, V. Smith, Wilbert
If you want to make it more exclusive then make it first-team all-conference three times. That eliminates Lennox, Parker, Wright, and Wilbert and just leaves Vernon Smith.
In the Big 12/SEC era we've only even had a couple first-team All-league players (Wright, Law, Sloan, Turner, House, Jones, Davis and Taylor.) Taylor is the only one who did it twice, and he also did it this year for his third.
We can keep debating until the end of the internet exactly how good he was, but being a three-time first-team all-league player is an incredibly worthy accomplishment.
