Colt McCoy's Jersey To Be Retired

I wish that we had some kind of very exclusive Ring of Honor, but left all numbers in circulation. Or treat some of the more special ones like we used to treat #60.

But within the framework of how we do this, Colt definitely deserves it. Two-time Heisman finalist and all-time winningest QB makes it an easy decision.

Wish it wasn’t during the Baylor game though.

Colt was the second best #12 on Texas last year.

I have no problems with teams retiring numbers. I think it’s a great way to keep names timeless.

A retired number is no more self serving than winning the Heisman, imho.

Retire Ernie Koy’s #23!!!

They should put a pair of signed quan and jordan receiving gloves with that jersey…

I personally would like to see number 33 retired in honor of the legendary Scott Derry.

Whither Ryan Perrilloux? Funny how things work out. Congrats to Colt, winningest quarterback in the history of college football.

he was also 2006 big 12 offensive freshman of the year

“I personally would like to see number 33 retired in honor of the legendary Scott Derry.”

We retired Derry’s number in College Station at the Fran firing.

/fully aware Michael now wears 33

Congrats to Colt but without Jordan Shipley I don’t think he is anything more than above average.

I’m also opposed to jersey retirements when we could easily recognize them with a ring of honor.

We’ve established a policy of honoring National Player of the Year winners , with a couple of exceptions granted for Layne and Nobis. And with the exception of Nobis, great defensive players and linemen in general are being slighted with this system. No defensive backs, or receivers, either. Not to mention guys like undefeated and national champion, James Street, who wasn’t an All-American or POY, just a winner and a legend. So, the selection criteria are seriously flawed, imo.

None of that is meant to slight Colt in any way. I would have him in my ring of honor, too.

nordberg -
 
That’s how I feel about it. An exalted group, but no numbers retired.
 
magnus -
 
The Heisman is awarded by an external body. This is an internal recognition determined solely by the university.
 
Merhorn -
 
I like it.
 
paleo -
 
Colt put up a very good year when Shipley was still the ghost.
 
Blues -
 
You’re with me and nordberg in the Ring of Honor camp.

Paleohorn – then you’re an idiot.

I liked the old system of only retiring Heisman winners’ numbers, but then Vince got fucked over and we had to blow it up.

I guess this means we’ll never have a 12th Man program where one of our students gets to play on kickoffs to symbolize our burning desire to be prepared and hullabaloo sit down bus driver. That’s some bad bull right there! Sssssssssssssssssssss!

It’s being proven this year more than ever how important Colt and Shipley were.

As great as Colt was, and we are just now beginning to see his true greatness with the hot pile of suck that is our O, I feel his career is more of a what if than anything. What if our coaches didn’t run that sneak against K-State? What if Gideon managed to catch that ball? What if we don’t run that awful option play against ’Bama? No doubt Colt was great, but he seemed to always be the bridesmaid.

Is it just me, but does any one else feel that Cedric Benson has been put to the back burners in Texas football history? He obviously wasn’t Ricky or Earl, but he should get some recognition.

I think all college football teams should retire #15 in recognition of what Tim Tebow contributed to the sport.

I think Colt deserves it for the chick he just married, if nothing else.

Just retiring national players of the year or heisman winners only validates a system that only gives such awards to QBs and sometimes RB’s. A lot of our players that won national defensive awards are just as deserving. DJ, Orakpo, Huff, Ross.

But then, some of our all americans are just as good. Blalock, Crowder, Leonard Davis, Hampton, Hills, Jammer, Kindle, Redding, Shipley, Vasher, Roy, etc. And then there’s other favorite longhorns that have to be included — Lamar Houston

If we retired everyone deserving we wouldn’t have any numbers left. I like the team concept/no jerseys retired. Big ring of honor with Vince as the lord of the ring.

You know you’ve made it when you are tuned into an animated Minotaur.

“Colt was the second best #12 on Texas last year.”

Yep.

“You know you’ve made it when you are tuned into an animated Minotaur.”

Awesome. Laughed out loud.

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This I agree with. I know it’s impossible, but I’d like Earl Thomas to get some recognition as maybe one of the most talented players to ever set foot on campus, offense or defense. I dont think Texas fans will appreciate just how good he was until his 10th pro bowl. Guy had Ed Reed skills from day 1, but was always overshadowed in the QB-hero-worship culture that we live in.

oh well.

Only longhorns in history to be in the top 10 in heisman voting for 2 years:
Bobby Layne
Ricky Williams
Colt McCoy

We’re gonna run out of numbers….. after Greg retires.

No problem with the retirement, though I often find it humorous how quickly we retire jerseys for recent players, when it took years for others to get the same recognition. I understand for some it’s obvious they were great and should get an honor (jersey or ring), but a week after they leave seems a tad quick.

I am for a ring of honor over jersey retirements. Like the #60, I enjoy it when kids come in and want the honor of living up to a jersey. That’s awesome.

It does drive me crazy how small the numbers are in the North End. There’s plenty of space there, bump that shit up. The names and years are barely legible from the South End.

I am not particularly thrilled that Texas has enthusiastically joined in the college football jersey equivalent of grade inflation, but so be it.

Some of you are missing what this is about. It’s about bringing maximum recognition and honor to the University of Texas. It’s not about being the best athlete or baddest dude or even the best player.

No

+1 merhorn

retire the jersey but not the number

How about we retire GD’s offense? Big ceremony and pretend it is a great honor, perhaps Mack will fall for it.

Primus inter pares.

Hang #12 on the wall.

McCoy’s record pales beside that of James Street. I guess I am too old to appreciate a bunch of stats and no hardware.

Woodrow Bombay

I agree wholeheartedly with everything you typed…and I would have paid good money to see you say that in person.

Why do they retire jersey numbers and not allow players to wear them? I remember Tommy Nobis saying he was against them retiring his number and not allowing future players to have his number. At this rate, Ryan Roberson’s number 33 will be off the shelf and we will have six number 4’s our there.

I have a hard time seeing retiring a number for one Big XII championship. Arguably he got fucked out of a Heisman and a shot at a crystal ball, but those are the breaks. Put Colt in this seasons offense and we’d just see more quickly (and accurately) thrown dropped passes and probably him leaving the field on a stretcher as he would be our entire running game (with possibly more putrid blocking than last year). I wish Shipley would have had a 15th year of eligibility, would have helped GG out a lot.

Maybe I’m just cynical but this just seems like a Mack/Dodds distraction from how quickly fucked this season is becoming.

Then again, can’t really argue with nordberg’s logic for retiring Colt’s number.

Nice try Bill. And it’s funny, since conference championships and BCS games are oh so common in college station.

We should retire it with an asterisk next to it.*

Colt had the toughest job of any Texas QB in following the greatest college football player to ever play the game. He then went out and won more college football games than any other college QB in history. That takes a lot of skill, a lot of good to great players around you, and a little bit of luck. I can see retiring the number just for the job he did in following a legend.

However.

I’m about hardware. It’s tough to award the retirement based on one conference championship.

I have more of an issue with Mack having only 2 big 12 titles than colt’s jersey being retired for getting 1 of those, but that’s a different thread. Congrats to Colt.

Agree with the Ring of Honor over number retirement, but since it’s already an established tradition, hell yes Colt deserves it. Basing it on how many conference or national titles the player was a part of is just dumb. How many conference/national titles did Earl and Ricky win? 2 conference titles for Ricky and 1 for Earl (tied for another); Ricky never sniffed a national championship game and Earl played for one national title, when Texas got hammered by ND. Yeah, I know they were Heisman winners. Colt should’ve been too. He deserves the honor.

A lot of players have won one confernce title. David Green is not a Georgia icon. Merely a really good player for them.

Colt was the best player in the country in 2008. Here’s a stat for you (you would know it if you read the 2010 “Eyes of Texas” magazine)-
Colt had 5 different game winning drives in the final 2 minutes of the game. That’s more than Vince Young, Tim Tebow, and Sam Bradford…added together. Colt won a bunch of games and he had a whole hell of a lot to do with it.

Colt is unique among retired Longhorn numbers in that he is the only one who was not head and shoulders athletically. Layne was a big QB for his day, and Nobis, Campbell, Williams and Young were all rare combinations of size, strength and speed. The fact remains that Colt got it done anyway.

Ring and add:

Street

This is going to come back and bite us when number @# wins the Heisman in 2053.

This kind of smacks of a Mack Brown juice boxes for everyone move…Colt was a dynamic player, and certainly in the pantheon of UT greats. But he’s just outside Layne/Nobis/Campbell/Williams/Young territory.

Or to put it this way, if you had to choose from Colt and the other five up there to win one game from their respective eras, how many names would you call before his?

@ hornseverywhere………still peeing my pants on the Scott Derry……

@ Sailor “You know you’ve made it when you are tuned into an animated Minotaur” FTW.

Retiring jerseys is pretty stupid. It’s a dumb way to honor someone……by removing a number from the lineup? That sounds more like a dishonor type of punishment for a disgrace.

In case nobody but Magnificent Bastard has noticed, single and double digit numbers are a finite resource. So until we get off a base 10 system, you gotta think about this.

Why don’t we retire their jocks, or face masks, or maybe the jock and facemask? Formal retirement is a crappy honor, and I bet retirees miss seeing their number out there.

A statue is much better. We just retire jerseys like blind lemmings because we aren’t sure what else to do. It’s like slipping a $20 in a birthday card because you forgot to go shopping.

By this methodology, we could argue to close the stadium and never play on the field again…..in his honor. Just go build a new one. For great President’s and Generals, why don’t we retire their suits or uniforms?

And President Roosevelt, “we hereby retire your suit size 40 Long, as a token of the greatest honor we can bestow upon thee for your service to our country, no one shall ever were a suit your size again!” Sweet!!

Like when Commodus said to his father Caesar after the Roman victory in Germania. “I shall sacrifice a hundred bulls in your honor father!” His father replied “Save the bulls, honor Maximus, he won the war”.

Maybe we should just leave it at that.

It’s too soon – there’s a reason the pros arent eligible for HOF the year after they retire. This smells to me more like an opportunistic marketing/recruiting/PR deal. Drayton McLane would be all for it.

“Congrats to Colt but without Jordan Shipley I don’t think he is anything more than above average.”

I guess you missed the 2006 season.

This fresh retire is stupid, ridiculous, and overall lame. And why now? Before a big game? Freekin Coaches workin the Fans. I think the world of Colt. I mean No one can ever be 10 or 12 forever? Does MB think we don’t have history here, and it all started when they got here? They ain’t gonna retire Ingram, you can bank on that.