A day after saying No. 44 was "back," SUA put out a statement to say that, actually, nothing's changed. What's up with that?
On Monday, May 18th, Syracuse Orange fans had an understanding. Despite the fact that the No. 44 had been retired and taken out of circulation in 2005, there was in fact the possibility that an SU football player could still wear the number so long as a committee of learned SU folk said so. We've known this since 2013.
On Tuesday, May 19th, interim AD Pete Sala stood before a microphone at an event introducing Plaza 44 and said the number 44 was officially back and available for a member of the SU football squad.