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You can't just retire someone's number just because they died young while playing at LSU. You can certainly honor that person in other ways, but number retirement is the ultimate honor saved only for the greatest players in their sport who have very special accomplishments. Wally has not earned that honor.

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Alex Box is named after a LSU letterman who died in WWII. No, it isn't his jersey number, but I'd say having his name on the building is nice.

Also, I'd say that it's unfortunate that we never got a chance to see if Wally could have, in your words, "earned" the right to have his number retired.