As of right now Iowa State does not retire jersey numbers.
Message from Brock for Tomorrow Night
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CycloneErik
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Which is fine, it's the argument from one poster that Brock wouldn't be worthy that has people laughing or face palming.
Best publicity Iowa State has had in my memory and I go back to the time when a man could farm 100 acres and make it.
Isn't it North Carolina basketball that retires jerseys, not jersey numbers? Why can't we do the same? Let's stop being so stingy in acknowledging the players that have made such great contributions.
Does anyone have any better full coverage of the Seneca tribute and where the band formed like the run and he ran through? All I ever saw was a tiny bad quality clip on "X".
Pretty cool to get them both back in same year.
Pretty cool to get them both back in same year.
I think that is what we do at ISU for basketball at least. I don't think we do that for football, but we definitely could.
I don’t give a rats ass what the “requirements” are or are not. If we retire jerseys, Brock Purdy deserves to have his retired. Period.
KU fans, how do you feel about this video being made before you come to town?
Hear me out, ant the VERY least we an either were big 12 basketball champions 5 times or the big 12 football champions once.
At the very least.
I'm pretty sure the numbers are retired at ISU - at least that is what has happened thus far.
14 was retired for Hornacek and Wegner,
20 was retired for Thompson,
32 was retired for Hoiberg
35 for Abdul-Aziz and Stevens
44 for Grayer
I've heard some say the numbers aren't retired but nobody has worn any of these jersey numbers since the retirement ceremony.
I'm not a fan of retiring numbers for football. There are already more players than available numbers, why compound the problem? Retire a jersey and maybe not use it for a decade or so after the jersey ceremony but don't retire the number for good.
his fiance is an iowan. he is officially connected here for life (he woulda been anyways cuz he's a g). we have trapped him here. great success
According to this article they don't retire numbers. Maybe the programs just doesn't use them out of respect. Wasn't there a big curfuffle when Breece wore 28 because he was the first since the Davis brothers? Sort of an unofficial retirement.
https://iowastatedaily.com/175973/sports/retirement-of-jerseys-a-rare-honor-for-truly-great-players/
Yeah, I've seen that article. As far as I know that is the only source saying they aren't retired but it does sow some doubt. This Iowa State University AD document talks about retired jerseys on the top of p. 67 but then says retired numbers on the caption of the photo on the bottom of p. 69.
But that is about BB. FB is a different case and the only retired number is a guy that the head coach more than half a decade ago thought was the perfect scholar-athlete but not that spectacular of football player. It is something of a headscratcher - why him? But in practice they don't ever really retire football numbers.
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#20 was actually worn for one season in the 80s, until someone remembered that Thompson's number had actually been retired.
The thing was, that "retirement" consisted of Bill Strannigan grabbing the mic on Senior Day and just declaring that nobody would ever wear #20 at ISU again. Unilateral decision, from all reports.
The same thing basically happened with Mike Cox (#30, football). Clay Stapleton just decided to do it on his own. And there was even some disagreement at the time as to the semantics, whether it was the number or the jersey being retired. Some folks believe that the retirement was also partly Stapleton offering up a "**** you" of sorts to Iowa, who sent two coaches to Ames to poach Cox after he was enrolled and on campus at ISU.
