42 days until the Season Opener
With two weeks to go before camp begins, the incoming freshmen have now been assigned their jersey numbers.
I don't know why these numbers tend to mean so much to fans like us... but they just do.
Here are some random numbers from the roster page that caught my eye:
-There will once again be two #1's. Junior punter Paul Delaney will share that number with freshman WR Trevor Bell.
-Freshman QB Trevor McDonagh gets #7, the number made great for Columbia by Johnathan Reese who is still our all-time greatest rusher.
-Fellow freshman QB Hank Trumbull gets #18, the number all-time great QB John Witkowski wore for the Lions in the early 1980's.
-Nick Gerst's younger brother Mike Gerst will get #36, Nick is #34.
-Defensive player-turned RB Ben Walker still has #52, (shared with incoming LB sensation Alec Davison). That may not stand, as I'm not sure an RB is allowed to have a number higher than 49.
-Incoming freshman DT Daren Napier gets Jeff Adams '12 old #76.
-WR-turned-DB Ian Cummins still has #85, I'm not sure he can keep that number if he remains with the defense.
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If a first year gets a duplicate number the coaches don't think he is quite ready for prime time, I suspect.
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