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Colorado Football Program Decision last retirement from TRAVIS Hunter and Shieduer Sanders No. 2 with some criticism. Each of the former Colorado players was officially retired earlier this month during a special party in Buffaloes Spring.
Four other players in the history of football in Colorado were honored by the retirement of the shirt. Colorado football dates back to 135 years. The standards applied to the retirement of Sanders and Hunter are distinguished from what the other former players faced.
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Shidor Sanders and Tarvis Hunter (Imagn)
In the nineties, a sports student had to fulfill the graduation requirements before the shirt retired. A spokesperson for the USA Today Sports confirmed that both Sanders and Hunter have not yet graduated at the time of the retirement ceremony on April 19.
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School officials also explained that the graduation standard was never an official policy, saying it was previously “preferring an academic advisor.”
(LR) SYDEUR SANDERS #2 and Travis Hunter #12 of Colorado Bovalo University with the media at the Zuke L night in the World Las Vegas resorts on July 21, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Louis Grass/Getty Emociz)
The officials added that the sports department administration, along with the main coach, can take retirement decisions in Jersey, according to their discretion.
Michael Jones is one of the latest former football players in Colorado that spoke with the repercussions of the controversial decision. Jones suggested that his former university lacks the retirement process in the shirt.
Shidor Sanders, the left, and Tavis Hunter, interact to the right, to their retirement in Jersey during the spring match of Colorado Football College, on Saturday, April 19, 2025, in Bulder, Colo. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)
“For them, there is no retirement operation from a number is the Asinine for Cororado,” Jones I told Usa Today SPORTS. “It is just asinine.”
Darian Hagan, who played the role of Gortbebeck in Colorado, told the executor that the controversial retirement decision was left by “Flabergasted”. Hagan did not distort Sanders or Hunter’s contributions to Colorado, but instead he believed that he should receive honor “one day”.
“We have always been told that there is a waiting period,” Hagan told the port. “There was a policy in place. It was necessary to vote on it. I was absolutely not informed that it was at the discretion of the sports director or the main coach. That was a shocking news for me. It was difficult for the stomach.”
Sanders and Hunter played their final match in Kolurado’s costume in late December in Alamo Paul. Hunter was the second total choice in the 2025 NFL draft. Sanders’s unexpected decrease in a draft last week was seen closely throughout the Sports World and Beyond. Sanders were eventually chosen in the fifth round and will start his career in the US Football Association with Cleveland Brown.
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Colorado won the National Championship in 1990. Jones pointed to the history of the program and suggested that Sincerz and Hunter allow the retirement line in the shirt effectively in “a dangerous erasure of our football heritage”, as he wrote on a social networking site.
Elsewhere, Colorado has strict policies in the Hall of Athletics.
If he is a qualified player, the athletes should be at least 10 years of removing him from their career in Bulder. The individual must also compete in any professional sporting country, for all nomination documents.
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