I hate Iowa as much as the next guy, but after reading stories, the senior Marble didn't exactly lead a model life post college. Drugs, DUIs. and domestic abuse shouearn you a retired jersey.
He didn't lead a model life while in college, either. The Iowa athletic department paid for a rehab stint to Hazelden in Minnesota for Marble while he was a college player.
I think another issue was BJ Armstrong and Ed Horton were also classmates of Marble and also all-time greats. Horton was 1st Team all-Big Ten as a senior (not Marble) and Armstrong was the most popular of the three and the program's all-time assists leader upon graduation. I think Iowa figured it couldn't retire Marble's number all by itself, and probably didn't think all three could get retired, or deserved to be retired, at the time.
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