The practice of retiring college athletes’ numbers has always been a curious one to us. Players cycle through college every couple years, whereas pro athletes at least have the ability to stay with a team and keep numbers in use for an extended period of time before meriting a number retirement.
But with the opportunity for so many players to have an impact on a school over so many small individual periods of time, we’d think number retirement rules at the college level should probably be pretty stringent, or even, perhaps, non-existent.
At least one school’s football program falls into the latter category: apparently the University of Oklahoma doesn’t retire football players’ numbers. So says Stiles Points, reading from a book titled Soonerology Trivia Challenge.
