No one will wear No. 10 for the Longhorns again. The University of Texas retired Vince Young's football jersey before the first game of the season Saturday at Royal-Memorial Stadium. The ceremony included a video montage of the former quarterback's feats at Texas from 2003-05 and the presentation of a framed jersey to the Tennessee Titans' quarterback. "I want to thank God. I want to thank my coach. And I definitely want to thank our University of Texas fans," Young said. On the field, Young slapped hands with Texas quarterback Colt McCoy, flashed a symbol of affection to strength coach Jeff Madden at midfield and lifted head coach Mack Brown off the ground. Many of the 98,053 fans in attendance for the first game with the new, 10,000-seat north end zone arrived early for the ceremony and howled with gratitude when Young arrived in a burnt orange Texas shirt. "I'm going to keep representing the University of Texas till I die," Young told them. Eight members of Young's family from Houston, including his mother, watched from the south end zone. Felicia Young looked across the field and above Section 14 of the stadium's newly expanded north end zone. There she saw her only son's name and the number he's worn throughout his years in football, a number he chose because her birthday is June 10. "I can see it for a long time yet," Felicia Young said. A lean, coltish Vince Young came to Austin in 2002 from Madison High School in Houston. He spent his first season as a redshirt understudy and threw his first pass as a Longhorn — a high, long and spiraling toss down the right side of the field to tight end David Thomas — on Aug. 31, 2003. It was complete. He became an All-America quarterback at Texas, where he won 30 games as a starter and lost only two. With Young, UT beat Michigan in the 2005 Rose Bowl and, a year later, won the national championship with a 41-38 Rose Bowl victory over Southern California. Young's 8-yard touchdown run on fourth down late in the fourth quarter at the 2006 Rose Bowl sealed his status as a hero among Texas fans and, in many ways, predicated the charged jersey-retirement ceremony Saturday evening. The ceremony came in the presence of the largest crowd to see a football game in the history of the state. Chris Barton and his brother, Jim, bought season tickets in the new north end zone section. They sat opposite the huge video monitor towering over the south end of the stadium and watched the jersey ceremony on it. "I was really touched by how much he reached out to his fans," Barton said of Young. "We mean a lot to him." On the other side of the field, Young's uncle, Keith Young, recalled a conversation he had with his nephew in the driveway of his home before the young quarterback made his official recruiting visit to Austin. Keith Young said he told his nephew that Texas needed him as much as he needed Texas. Keith Young cast his eyes to the five names whose jersey numbers have been retired at Texas. Bobby Layne (22), Tommy Nobis (60), Earl Campbell (20), Ricky Williams (34). Vince Young. "Look at it," Keith Young said. "That's exactly what happened