First, thanks for the unpinning note. I immediately noticed the thread's absence at the top and wondered.
Second, as one of the fence straddlers I totally agree with the comments of both you and USAF Jayhawk. If Perry can be key in leading the team to another NC, I will gladly join the "hang it up!" crowd!
BTW, I double checked on "Captain Kirk" -- as USAF J noted, there really are not rigid requirements any more, the former requirements are now used as guidelines by KU. Meeting them almost guarantees a place in the rafters, but not meeting them does not preclude one. The closest Kirk came to meeting any of them was being named a 3rd Team AP AA and being selected the NCAA Midwest Regional MOP in 2003. Add on leading his team to back to back Big 12 titles (including 16-0 in 2002, the only perfect season in Big 12 MBB history), back to back FFs and an NC title game in his last two years and you have pretty darn good reasons to honor him.
Also current policy is that a player has to have been gone for at least 5 years before his jersey will be considered for retirement. Anyone remember who instituted this? I thought it might have been because Roy made sure Kirk made the rafters, but Kirk was not honored until March 1, 2009.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
