Andre Seldon will be the first #0 at Michigan
Look out for Giles Jackson getting the other #0
NCAA also made a rule change that only two guys can have the same jersey number.
Would imagine Steve Levy lobbied for that rule after how disastrous his attempts were in the last couple of years to sort out Michigan's various #3s lol
Yeah I guess he sort of confirmed that too
Regarding the limit of guys having the same number, I forgot what year, but I remember Michigan having like four #3s or maybe even more. It was Gary, Speight, and a couple others.
nordin, and....?
Brad Robbins. In 2017, Speight, Gary, Nordin, and Robbins all wore #3 during the same game. Last year's team also had four #3s -- Nordin, Robbins, Jalen Perry, and Christian Turner.
I suspect we're going to bs seeing some unusual numbers on the field with these new rules.
I was really hoping we'd always give it to the top walk-on on offense and defense...but no one thinks like that anymore.
"I feel old."
-Bodie Broadus
Wha !!!! You mean we can't have 5 kickers wearing #3 ????
Go Blue!
is 00 also available?
In other sports you can have either 0 or 00 on your team but not both, not sure if that applies here as well.
Really? Interesting, have never heard that before.
That used to be the NBA rule forever, but I think they've relaxed it recently
The number 69 is unofficially banned from use in the NBA
I am unreasonably upset at these numerical discriminations. I hereby request irrational numbers be allowed.
If I'd weighed 120 pounds more than I did in college I would have been the first #pi
Edit: nevermind NBA rules are obviously different. It's banned more so because double digit numbers only go to the 50s and the highest the second number can go is 5.
That may have been true at some point in the past, but isn't currently. Jae Crowder has worn #99 for at least the past few seasons in Miami, Memphis and Utah.
i think rodman might have ended that rule
The 5's rule for basketball numbering only exists for HS and College, not NBA
that was my bib number for the 1998 Naked Mile.
In basketball you cannot have a 0 and 00 (at least in HS and NCAA). As someone else mentioned, this started to help refs signal to official scorers. Also, generally, the computer scoring systems used to keep stats during games require single digit numbers to have a leading zero entered to help identify the player (like 01 for someone wearing #1, bc otherwise the computer would wait for a second digit thinking you were going to input #10-15)
In the NBA, you can have both a 0 and 00, like this years Portland TrailBlazers, who have Dam Lillard wearing #0 and Melo wearing #00.
Orlando Woolridge says no
Kid from Belleville seems pretty happy! Crush it Andre!!!
Pretty cool! It’ll be weird seeing #0 on the football field even though pretty much every other sport already does it
No word yet on if 00 is legal. I assume it is because 0 is legal in basketball but Naz Hillmon on Michigan WBB wears 00
My hero, 0!
Logged in just to upvote Schoolhouse Rock.
"My Hero Zero"
If he has the sort of career that gets the number retired I would be both happy and a little sad.
Faber College would have given Mr. Blutarsky jersey number zero point zero.
It's going to look weird, very weird. You don't need a single digit to have the "clout" or to "look fast", young bucks.
False. Rich Rod was the first zero at Michigan.
Is 0 a number or a collaboration of Ciara n ludacris
Zero is the loneliest number since the number one.
It's because of ineligible player downfield penalties.
"What's this nonsense about ineligible players being downfield?"
~ Service Academies
I mean, as shitty as officials are, it helps them. It wouldn't be great for them allowing numbers 14, 52, 33, 69, 11...as the Oline...and 38 as QB and wideouts being 66 and 44.
It’s still a real number.
Is it? Show the proof.
Harbaugh actually gifted the number to Andre for his birthday
Perfect. Enrich a great, classic tradition. Love kids that get their roots.
On the subject of numbers, Happy #50 to #21 today!
Oddly, thinking of someone else turning 50 was worse than actually being 50.
Zero to Hero. I like it!
If he pick-6's osu and helps us beat them, that jersey will sell infinity, he'll be legend.
GO BLUE.
From your lips to God's ear.
No. 0 might take a little getting used to, but I'm excited for Jackson and Seldon.
Jackson began to emerge toward the end of 2019 and could work the slot well alongside Ronnie Bell, IMO.