I think it is a little ridiculous to let the Heisman voters decide what numbers we should retire.  Honestly, that is the least we could do for the guy that gave so much to this university.  With all due respect to Durant, he didn't do 10% for this school what Vince did.  I could go on for hours, but Deloss Dodd is a man of priciples and tradition.  And the same principles that keep the TX-OU game in Dallas (in stead of going home-and-home which actually makes more financial sense) keep Vince's number unretired.  You just have to take the good with the bad.

The Athletic department will not retire Vince Young's number because he did not win the Heisman Trophy.

Is that your own conclusion, or is there a source for that?

For the record, Cat's number should be retired before Vince's IMO. KD's number being retired before Vince and Cat is a joke.

Also, you are not the only one, this topic comes up in diaries every month or so.

I agree completely. Why do we only retire POY's numbers? Do other top programs do this as well?

We should decide for ourselves who deserves to have their numbers retired at our school. Obviously we would attach more importance to leadership and winning than individual accolades.

I posted something about this a while back, but I'll sum it up again.

To me, the fact that Kevin Durant's number was ever retired is just wrong. No disrespect to one of the very best basketball players to ever come through Austin, but how can you retire a guy's jersey who did nothing but win individual awards for one season? How can you retired the jersey of a guy who only stuck around for one season in the first place? Again, I am not criticizing his decision to leave, but a retired jersey  should be honoring contribution's to the entire program. His contributions to the program were minimal. (Do not read that as me having anything at all against KD. I absolutely respect him as a player and thoroughly enjoyed watching him play. I wish him the very best in the pro's and am damn glad that he graced us with his presence for one year. His jersey, though, is nothing special to me.)

I'm sort of on the fence about whether or not the 10 should be retired (if it were, though, I certainly wouldn't fight it), but if Vince's is hung up, Cat's damn sure better be as well.

As far as only retiring Heisman winners or players of the year... if that rule is true, it should be done away with. Completely. It is absurd.

Vince won the Maxwell in 05 right? If thats the case that award is given to the oustanding PLAYER OF THE YEAR, so there's your technicality for retiring the jersey.  

Retire #10 if we are in the business of retiring jerseys.

Reggie Bush won the award that was mostly decided by Kirk Herbstreit, and other sensationalists.  The vote was mostly based on Reggie running around on Fresno State late in the season.  The "tarnished" part is not even a factor in my mind, Mr. Bush still performed on the field, it's not like the money made him play better.

We got the ultimate satisfaction.  We beat them heads up, and believe it or not we were the better team.

Retire the number or don't retire numbers at all.

seriously.

can be dicey.  How far do you go back?  For the single most recent player?

If there were no POY or other restrictions for a player's number to be retired, number 10 for the University of Texas would have long been gone.  In my life time, it would have been retired after the 1970 season by #10 James Street.