Nixon
Wears Scarlet-colored glasses
Since I don't feel like talking about the game, I'll talk about this. I don't have anything against John Havlicek--great player, especially in the NBA, played on the greatest OSU team of all-time. However, while I think he is worthy of this honor, he would not at all be my first choice. First of all, it has been OSU policy so far to only honor National Players of the Year(Lucas, Bradds, and JJ in basketball and the 5 Heisman winners in football). Hondo will be the first non-POY to get the honor. Why not Chic Harley in football, who played prior to the Heisman? Ditto for Johnny Miner in basketball. And will this lead to football retiring, say John Hicks or Keith Byars number? Neither won the Heisman but both finished 2nd. I think this sentence from the story is very telling:
He ranks 25th in career scoring at Ohio State and is one of just 41 players to score more than 1,000 points.
25th in career scoring...I know he played with Lucas who was gobbling up the points, but why not Kelvin Ransey or Dennis Hopson? Herb Williams or Dick Schnittker or Jim Cleamons or even Michael Redd. I think if you started a policy of retiring everybody's number who achieved what Havlicek did, at OSU, you'd have a whole lot of them up there.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/8129809.htm
He ranks 25th in career scoring at Ohio State and is one of just 41 players to score more than 1,000 points.
25th in career scoring...I know he played with Lucas who was gobbling up the points, but why not Kelvin Ransey or Dennis Hopson? Herb Williams or Dick Schnittker or Jim Cleamons or even Michael Redd. I think if you started a policy of retiring everybody's number who achieved what Havlicek did, at OSU, you'd have a whole lot of them up there.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/8129809.htm