Melvin Ejim is part of the 2024 ISU Hall of Fame class!
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The numbers up in the rafter now appear to be retired.
Nobody has worn them since at least 2011 (and yes I've been tracking this).
#3 has been popular even after Melvin...
Clayton Custer
Hallice Cooke
Marial Shayok
Tre Jackson III
Tamin Lipsey
#11 has been popular after Monté (and Jamaal Tinsley for that matter)...
Talen Horton-Tucker
Prentiss Nixon
Dudley Blackwell
Tyrese Hunter
Kayden Fish
Nobody else has worn #31, but that is sort of an awkward/unpopular number as it is.
Plenty of people have been wearing Fizer's #5, too...
Jake Anderson
Tavon Sledge
Cameron Fowler
Hallice Cooke
Merrill Holden
Lindell Wigginton
Jalen Coleman-Lands
Jazz Kunc
Curtis Jones
I'm embarrassed that no one in the student section didn't have a blow-up picture of this.
I can go both ways about this because i don't know that a one and done should be up there either.
What the hell kind criteria is only the best player on his team his final year?
Sig talking about UNC having "retired" vs "honored" got me thinking.
What if you had a lower standard for "honored" players, and instead of putting the jerseys up in the rafters, displayed them around the concourse? There's isn't much decor on those walls.
That's were you could put guys like Niang, Tinsley, Homan, Stinson, etc. You'd need some kind of criteria I suppose, or if there's too many, you do a couple decades per year and rotate it.
What if you had a lower standard for "honored" players, and instead of putting the jerseys up in the rafters, displayed them around the concourse? There's isn't much decor on those walls.
That's were you could put guys like Niang, Tinsley, Homan, Stinson, etc. You'd need some kind of criteria I suppose, or if there's too many, you do a couple decades per year and rotate it.
ISU has a pretty exclusive club of Conference Players of the Year. Thompson, Abdul-Aziz, Fizer, Tinsley and Ejim.
He’s also not 6’10”. Seems pretty clear cut to me.
I like looking at honors, particularly that those outside the program provide. There's a ton of bias for things like the era.
In general I think it's weird to supposedly have such an exclusive group and let nobody in, yet have a couple guys that were one-time HM AA and never won a CPoY.
I agree with this. Ejim was a good player, but I don't know about "hang the jersey" good. To me, Niang and Morris are no-brainers. They need to revise the rules, as times have changed and 4 year players are few and far between. I don't think that players good enough to go league in 2 years should be excluded because they didn't take some online courses. It should be Fizer, Tinsley, Niang and Morris.
Right? That's why UNC only has 52 of them up there.
The way some people want these awarded Hilton's ceiling will be completely covered with jerseys.
My vote is all the jerseys up there are just the jersey retired. I’m not sure anyone has enough to retire a number. You can also do a hall of fame type wall that is a third level.
Didn't realize 10 years as had to pass. So in Melvin's case he's basically a first ballot ISU HOF which he absolutely deserves. Think a few more ISU MBB players will join when their 10 years has passed.
My favorite part of this are videos of pollard notifying inductees. Did the athletic department do it for this year's group?
I know.......i know this happens for all of us in our various stages of life.....but does seem like yesterday watching his last regular season game hoping his PPG would get him the Player of the Year award.
This stuff kind of reminds me of the Troy Davis arguments too (so many factors to consider when trying to name "the greatest" or worthy.
Appreciate some folks pointing out some that are up in the rafters are statistically (and probably less winning percentage) than some of the other names mentioned. It stinks it seems there is no TRUE set criteria that has been followed (for the past guys).
Many have also pointed out the new era of bball make some of these tricky. What if we took a grad transfer that had two years left (graduated in 3 years) and took us to a natty? Or, what if Tamin continues to follow his trajectory and after next year leaves (and of course after a final four this year and natty next year). So many scenarios.
Appreciate some folks pointing out some that are up in the rafters are statistically (and probably less winning percentage) than some of the other names mentioned. It stinks it seems there is no TRUE set criteria that has been followed (for the past guys).
Many have also pointed out the new era of bball make some of these tricky. What if we took a grad transfer that had two years left (graduated in 3 years) and took us to a natty? Or, what if Tamin continues to follow his trajectory and after next year leaves (and of course after a final four this year and natty next year). So many scenarios.
