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OT - NC State retiring Russell Wilson's # at their spring game

bananasnblondes
bananasnblondes Member Posts: 15,573
edited October 29 in Mariners Baby! + NFL + NBA + Other Sports
Kinda like getting your ex girlfriends name tattooed on you after she dumps you and goes on to become a model, no?

More or less pathetic than UW hanging Roy's # two years after he graduated?
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    edited March 2014
    At least Roy finished at UW. Definitely more.
    He_Needs_More_Time said:

    Retiring Brandon Roy's jersey isn't at all pathetic.

    Retiring Wilson's jersey when he left to Wisconsin is really pathetic though.

    this

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  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 26,094 Standard Supporter
    Talk about riding your old player's (who you let go) coattails now that he's a big star
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  • LoneStarDawg
    LoneStarDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 13,703 Founders Club
    Equally as pathetic as retiring martell webster as the first 5* under romar's regime
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  • whlinder
    whlinder Member Posts: 5,375
    bananasnblondes said:


    More or less pathetic than UW hanging Roy's # two years after he graduated?

    Disagree

    http://sdb.admin.washington.edu/sisDegreeValidation/Public/default.aspx
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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,211
    Absolutely ridiculous. Particularly given that NC State ran Wilson out of town for Mike Glennon.

    Retiring numbers in college football should pretty much be saved for the best of the best. And even then, probably not so much.
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    whlinder said:

    bananasnblondes said:


    More or less pathetic than UW hanging Roy's # two years after he graduated?

    Disagree

    http://sdb.admin.washington.edu/sisDegreeValidation/Public/default.aspx
    Hello there. Brandon Roy majored in Basketball at the University of Washington. After four years of excellent performance in studies for his chosen major, including a senior year where he was arguably the greatest basketball major in school history, Brandon graduated from the UW basketball program with honors and was immediately successful in his chosen career field, making millions out of the gate and then getting a massive raise just three years out of school.

    #StudentAthlete
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    CuntWaffle said:

    When Brandon Roy retired for his first time Lebron said that the NBA just lost the best shooting guard in the league. LBJ doesn't really like to give other players credit besides himself unless he is asked by the media, to go out of his way and say that speaks volumes.

    Roy was incredibly fun to watch, he didn't have the jaw dropping dunks everyone loves to see now days but he brought the same wow factor by making people look like fucking morons when he had the ball. He could finish with multiple defenders in the paint and knew how to get to the free throw line.

    If the guy didn't have such fucked up knees he could have gone down as legendary.

    Disagree

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uAbdiCOJZM

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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 11,453
    CuntWaffle said:

    dnc said:

    CuntWaffle said:

    When Brandon Roy retired for his first time Lebron said that the NBA just lost the best shooting guard in the league. LBJ doesn't really like to give other players credit besides himself unless he is asked by the media, to go out of his way and say that speaks volumes.

    Roy was incredibly fun to watch, he didn't have the jaw dropping dunks everyone loves to see now days but he brought the same wow factor by making people look like fucking morons when he had the ball. He could finish with multiple defenders in the paint and knew how to get to the free throw line.

    If the guy didn't have such fucked up knees he could have gone down as legendary.

    Disagree

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uAbdiCOJZM

    Yes he could dunk but that is not what you remember him for. You remember him being cold blooded like this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61dRAp0voaM

    And stuff like this

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_155kjVqd4
    I was actually at Spirit Mountain Casino when Roy hit that shot. Entire casino fucking erupts in joy. Very memorable moment for me.
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  • CuntWaffle
    CuntWaffle Member Posts: 22,500
    edited March 2014
    He_Needs_More_Time said:

    CuntWaffle said:

    dnc said:

    CuntWaffle said:

    When Brandon Roy retired for his first time Lebron said that the NBA just lost the best shooting guard in the league. LBJ doesn't really like to give other players credit besides himself unless he is asked by the media, to go out of his way and say that speaks volumes.

    Roy was incredibly fun to watch, he didn't have the jaw dropping dunks everyone loves to see now days but he brought the same wow factor by making people look like fucking morons when he had the ball. He could finish with multiple defenders in the paint and knew how to get to the free throw line.

    If the guy didn't have such fucked up knees he could have gone down as legendary.

    Disagree

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uAbdiCOJZM

    Yes he could dunk but that is not what you remember him for. You remember him being cold blooded like this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61dRAp0voaM

    And stuff like this

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_155kjVqd4
    I was actually at Spirit Mountain Casino when Roy hit that shot. Entire casino fucking erupts in joy. Very memorable moment for me.
    Yup and Romar couldn't even get to a fucking elite 8 with a talent like this. 99% of colleges will never get to see a player of this caliber play for them.

    But hey we made the Sweet 16 with elite talent as always.
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