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Having a jersey retired at BYU is no easy feat for any athlete. According to BYU standards, an athlete must reach certain requirements in order to have their jersey retired.

“The individual must have been a First Team All-American; a recipient of a major national award (ie Davey Obrien, Heisman, John Wooden Award etc.); a university graduate; achieved significant athletic, civic or religious accomplishments after graduation from BYU; a faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or other religious affiliation and a 15-year period must have past since the individual finished his or her athletic career at BYU.”

- See more at: http://universe.byu.edu/2013/02/12/byu-to-retire-jerseys-of-mel-hutchins-and-roland-minson/#sthash.Fd4UZFb9.cPJvRxYf.dpuf


See the part about being a faithful member of a church? Maybe in the future you should avoid accusing people of making things up just because you don't happen to have knowledge of what that person says.

And whether be blew off his classes or not does not matter to me, the right thing would have been to give him an honorary degree and put him in the HOF a long time ago.