Retired SJU jerseys?

[Alumni Hall]

Are we the only school that does not retire uniform numbers and hang them in the rafters? So many great All-Americans that should get their due in Carnesecca Arena. We used to have the legacy banner hanging, but I’m not sure if it is still there, and that program was cancelled after only one ceremony.
And it was up to the equipment manager who decided if a former players number would be given out to a new player. Mullin’s was the only one “protected” by the old equipment room staff. All the other numbers were fair game, we had walkons wearing the numbers of our greatest stars.
Years ago when Taffner was build, someone had the hairbrained idea to put up glass shadow boxes with a players NBA team uniform in it. No name or picture of them in it. Nobody knew who the jerseys belonged to. They were only for our 1st round NBA draft picks, BUT they were not of the team who they were drafted by. Since say Walter Berry played for multiple teams, it could have been any of his jerseys. NO ONE could ever identify all the jerseys correctly. I used to bet people who stopped by Taffner a SJU tshirt or small gift if the ever could name them all correctly. They were eventually removed after an errant Basketball smashed the glass during the Lavin years and all were removed and ended up being trashed.
Such a shame as when you travel to almost every other program, their greats are given the proper recognition.

 

[Larry Wright]

Are we the only school that does not retire uniform numbers and hang them in the rafters? So many great All-Americans that should get their due in Carnesecca Arena. We used to have the legacy banner hanging, but I’m not sure if it is still there, and that program was cancelled after only one ceremony.
And it was up to the equipment manager who decided if a former players number would be given out to a new player. Mullin’s was the only one “protected” by the old equipment room staff. All the other numbers were fair game, we had walkons wearing the numbers of our greatest stars.
Years ago when Taffner was build, someone had the hairbrained idea to put up glass shadow boxes with a players NBA team uniform in it. No name or picture of them in it. Nobody knew who the jerseys belonged to. They were only for our 1st round NBA draft picks, BUT they were not of the team who they were drafted by. Since say Walter Berry played for multiple teams, it could have been any of his jerseys. NO ONE could ever identify all the jerseys correctly. I used to bet people who stopped by Taffner a SJU tshirt or small gift if the ever could name them all correctly. They were eventually removed after an errant Basketball smashed the glass during the Lavin years and all were removed and ended up being trashed.
Such a shame as when you travel to almost every other program, their greats are given the proper recognition.

So in my time think would be:
David Russell
Chris Mullin
Walter Berry
Mark Jackson
Malik Sealy
Go back and forth on Artest but only played 2 years. Yes so did Berry but he is Walter Berry.

 

[Alumni Hall]

There were 16 jerseys hanging and David Russell was a 2nd rounder.

 

[Larry Wright]

There were 16 jerseys hanging and David Russell was a 2nd rounder.

And Berry played 2 and half years in NBA what does where he got drafted have to do with number retired?

 

[Alumni Hall]

And Berry played 2 and half years in NBA what does where he got drafted have to do with number retired?

Lawrence it seems like you maybe misunderstood my post.
A. SJU should retire and honor our all of our former great players, whether they were drafted or not. It should be on their contribution to our program while they played here and a banner or banners like other schools hang would be appropriate.
B. My second part of the post was to explain the ineptitude of our athletic department. How do you hang replica jerseys of our schools 1st Round draft picks WITHOUT placing their name on the frame or a picture of them playing in it so alumni players, fans can identify whose jersey is whose? As I said, in the 16-17 years they were hanging nobody could identify whose jersey belonged to who. Many people thought we were just hanging replica NBA jerseys just to spruce up the practice gym.
here is Carolina’s criteria:

Honored North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball players - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Larry Wright]

Lawrence it seems like you maybe misunderstood my post.
A. SJU should retire and honor our all of our former great players, whether they were drafted or not. It should be on their contribution to our program while they played here and a banner or banners like other schools hang would be appropriate.
B. My second part of the post was to explain the ineptitude of our athletic department. How do you hang replica jerseys of our schools 1st Round draft picks WITHOUT placing their name on the frame or a picture of them playing in it so alumni players, fans can identify whose jersey is whose? As I said, in the 16-17 years they were hanging nobody could identify whose jersey belonged to who. Many people thought we were just hanging replica NBA jerseys just to spruce up the practice gym.
here is Carolina’s criteria:

Honored North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball players - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Ok
I was just indicating numbers I would have retired. Well players whose number would retire

 

[espken]

How do you hang replica jerseys of our schools 1st Round draft picks WITHOUT placing their name on the frame or a picture of them playing in it so alumni players, fans can identify whose jersey is whose? As I said, in the 16-17 years they were hanging nobody could identify whose jersey belonged to who.

The casual fan wouldn’t know, but I wouldn’t say ‘nobody’.

 

[Alumni Hall]

The casual fan wouldn’t know, but I wouldn’t say ‘nobody’.

Listen believe me, NO ONE was able to correctly guess all the jerseys and that included Carnesecca, Mahoney, Rutledge, Jack Kaiser, former coaches, SID’s and players. We had basketball Alumni only in Taffner for our annual Mass and breakfast, players, managers and former staff each Nov and everyone was stumped. If a former player attended, he could guess which jersey was his, but not many others.

 

[espken]

Listen believe me, NO ONE was able to correctly guess all the jerseys and that included Carnesecca, Mahoney, Rutledge, Jack Kaiser, former coaches, SID’s and players. We had basketball Alumni only in Taffner for our annual Mass and breakfast, players, managers and former staff each Nov and everyone was stumped. If a former player attended, he could guess which jersey was his, but not many others.

Get me screenshot of the jerseys and I’ll tell you who the players are.

 

[SLYFOXX1968]

So in my time think would be:
David Russell
Chris Mullin
Walter Berry
Mark Jackson
Malik Sealy
Go back and forth on Artest but only played 2 years. Yes so did Berry but he is Walter Berry.

One could add Wennington , Barkley , Artest you mentioned in the last 40 years category . Before that Reggie Carter , Sonny Dove , Tony Jackson are about as far back as I go . Leroy Ellis and maybe Kevin Loughery would get votes too , from the older alums .

 

[Alumni Hall]

Here are our 1ST Round draft choices all time:
Ron Artest
Erik Barkley
Walter Berry
Mel Davis
Sonny Dove
LeRoy Ellis
Maurice Harkless
Mark Jackson
George Johnson
Felipe Lopez
Dick McGuire
Chris Mullin
Malik Sealy
John Warren
Bill Wennington
Jayson Williams

Draft Picks From St. John's | Basketball-Reference.com

Players drafted from St. John's

www.basketball-reference.com

 

[Alumni Hall]

Get me screenshot of the jerseys and I’ll tell you who the players are.

As I said they were thrown out a few years ago

 

[jackfro]

One could add Wennington , Barkley , Artest you mentioned in the last 40 years category . Before that Reggie Carter , Sonny Dove , Tony Jackson are about as far back as I go . Leroy Ellis and maybe Kevin Loughery would get votes too , from the older alums .

Seiden, Zawoluk, Boykoff, Levane, Gotkin, Schaeffer Alagia, B.McIntyre, Paultz, Hatten and others too numerous to mention who have contributed to the glorious history of SJU basketball history.

 

[NCJohnnie]

Joe Depre and Glenn Williams were two outstanding players from the 60s and 70s.

 

[RedStormNC]

Retired jerseys are nice but will become a thing of past as too few players will stay for multi years in New landscape.

There's little of program building any longer. Just year to year.

 

[Moose]

In college basketball you can only wear 0-5 so there aren’t often numbers ‘retired’ because you only have 36 numbers to pick from if I did my math right.

 

[SJU85]

There were 16 jerseys hanging and David Russell was a 2nd rounder.

IIRC they they have put NBA jersey’s of former players back on the wall at Taffner.

To tell you the truth, considering the lack of former St.John’s players who have been in the NBA in recent years, it could be rather embarrassing when recruits come to visit.

 

[Alumni Hall]

In college basketball you can only wear 0-5 so there aren’t often numbers ‘retired’ because you only have 36 numbers to pick from if I did my math right.

You forgot 00 remember walk on Nigel Roach?

 

[Alumni Hall]

IIRC they they have put NBA jersey’s of former players back on the wall at Taffner.

To tell you the truth, considering the lack of former St.John’s players who have been in the NBA in recent years, it could be rather embarrassing when recruits come to visit.

Dave those were taken down after a Basketball shattered the glass in a few. The maintenance crew took them down and put them in the managers store room…and one by one they disappeared.

 

[mjmaherjr]

Are we the only school that does not retire uniform numbers and hang them in the rafters?

The school was thinking about it but hanging them up there with the heat and humidity they were worried about a mold problem on them