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Post by rayb_14 on Aug 11, 2004 15:06:28 GMT -5
who retires jersey numbers in wvb?
lbsu? nebraska?
anyone else?
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Post by BeiBei on Aug 11, 2004 22:15:19 GMT -5
For Long Beach
May
White
Scott
All POY
Not sure about Nebraska
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Post by GoBigRed on Aug 11, 2004 22:21:25 GMT -5
I believe NU is
Noth
Weston
Dahlgren or Kruse
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Post by BearClause on Aug 11, 2004 22:57:49 GMT -5
I see a basic problem in retiring numbers. The large majority of volleyball players wear low numbers (1-25), and if you actually "retire" the use of a number, you'll have to move to larger numbers if your list of retired players starts getting large. I'm looking at the Stanford roster, and they've got 14 players - and all their numbers are from 1 to 15. If there was a program that has the most players worthy of number retirement, they would be it. Over the past few years, I can only recall one player on any team wearing a number higher than 25 (53 I believe).
Now - if you just "symbolically" retire a jersey (i.e. display it prominently) and allow that number to be used, then it may not be that big an issue. There a few professional leagues that have retired a number across all teams. The first was the NHL with Wayne Gretzky's #99. The second was Major League Baseball with Jackie Robinson's #42; a few players, such as the Yankees's Mariano Rivera, were grandfathed in.
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Post by IdahoBoy on Aug 11, 2004 23:11:34 GMT -5
I see a basic problem in retiring numbers. The large majority of volleyball players wear low numbers (1-25), and if you actually "retire" the use of a number, you'll have to move to larger numbers if your list of retired players starts getting large. I'm looking at the Stanford roster, and they've got 14 players - and all their numbers are from 1 to 15. If there was a program that has the most players worthy of number retirement, they would be it. Over the past few years, I can only recall one player on any team wearing a number higher than 25 (53 I believe). Now - if you just "symbolically" retire a jersey (i.e. display it prominently) and allow that number to be used, then it may not be that big an issue. There a few professional leagues that have retired a number across all teams. The first was the NHL with Wayne Gretzky's #99. The second was Major League Baseball with Jackie Robinson's #42; a few players, such as the Yankees's Mariano Rivera, were grandfathed in. Don't forget Kim Glass at Arizona. |
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Post by FloridaPerson on Aug 11, 2004 23:56:41 GMT -5
Over the past few years, I can only recall one player on any team wearing a number higher than 25 (53 I believe). Jane Colleymore was 33 and Jackie Robinson was 56, And that's just from last year's Florida Gators team. |
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Post by BearClause on Aug 12, 2004 0:40:50 GMT -5
Jane Colleymore was 33 and Jackie Robinson was 56, And that's just from last year's Florida Gators team. OK - you got me there. And yeah - Kim Glass wears 86. My main recollection was of one Cal player wearing 53. I'm just thinking that low numbers seems to be the norm in volleyball. Actually "retiring" numbers might work against that. I also remember the animated TV show "Futurama". The 3000 New New York Mets had retired all their whole numbers, and all of their players wore fractions. ;D |
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Post by BeiBei on Aug 12, 2004 4:51:10 GMT -5
For Long Beach May White Scott All POY Not sure about Nebraska I forget to add Cross Battle |
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Post by GoBigRed on Aug 12, 2004 8:40:52 GMT -5
NU's other is Endicott
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Post by 7thWoman on Aug 12, 2004 10:22:17 GMT -5
Roberta Gehlke, UCSB
#6 I think
I'm not sure if we have any others but I don't think so.
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