How many more f#$king numbers to do you people want to retire? Jesus it is out of hand as it is.......Pitt needs to unretire a few numbers to be honest......Love Fitz but #1 shouldn't have been retired...
It is a dumb policy
Disagreed.
Pitt has some absolutely ridiculous talent in its history, and retiring some of their numbers is a nice way to honor that.
Fitzgerald is arguably the greatest college WR of all time.
Dorsett,
Fralic, and
Green were all named 1st Team All-Century by SI in 1999 (we were the only school with more than 1 in the best-22).
Ditka was 2nd Team All-Century in the same article.
May won the Outland Trophy.
Goldberg was top-3
twice for Heisman, 2x AA, was the clear leader on 2 national champs, and was #12 draft pick. Those 7 plus
Aaron Donald (every award possible, dominant stats) should be automatic. May has the weakest credentials of this group, but he won the Outland so I'm putting him in (Regarding using that logic to put Antonio Bryant on the list since he won the Biletnikoff: a) the Outland covers far more players than the Biletnikoff, b) Bryant wasn't a unanimous AA, c) Bryant got no Heisman votes [whereas 10 different players got at least one #1 vote], d) his stats weren't that crazy [May's crazy stat: gave up 0 sacks over 2 years], e) 63rd overall pick).
I'm going No on Covert, Schmidt, and Marino.
Covert was basically a 1x AA with no awards.
Schmidt is most famous for a speech he gave before an upset, was a 1x AA, was the 85th draft pick, and played on teams that were a combined 10-18.
Marino was a super-duper pro and played on great Pitt teams, but he has almost as many interceptions as TD's at Pitt, had all his stats beaten by Van Pelt who was behind a much worse line, 0x AA, 4th and 9th in Heisman voting, and no big awards.
Give me those 8 above, and keep the bar set at their level.
