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The Big Ten is doing everything in their power to not allow that to happen.

Purdue also has a Bigfoot. Teen Wolf and Air Bud both proved that fury and/or mythical beast make basketball teams great.

Put em in bio degradable paper or whatever. Just remember to wrap them in plastic.

We aren't talking about football. Different game. Football jerseys in general don't really change a ton.

Those GameDay pamphlets are pretty cool though. Those are small things. Things Indiana could absolutely do. But GameDay experience isn't part of the agenda. The game should be a massive event. Last game I went to, it was closer to going to a varsity HS game rather than a men's Big Ten matchup.

I will say, the best place to probably go for gear right now is Fanatics.

Just to make everyone feel even more confident in the program....

Because it's the Big Ten. The amount of common sense in scheduling is probably in the negatives. You should ask yourself why Indiana has to play Rutgers, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan State, Michigan and Purdue twice.

No one said uniforms were the end all be all. That uniforms were going to change the program. But holy hell at some point get creative. The "tradition" reasoning is the absolute LAMEST excuse on the planet. As if Kansas, Kentucky, Duke, Michigan State etc don't have any tradition at all. Indiana likes to be boring. That's just a fact. Old man fans want Indiana to be this under the radar program... Well now we are under the radar, because we aren't any good. Spice things up a bit, throw out some alternates, get recruits eyes to look, get current players blood flowing a little, throw some gray or black trim in there, some script lettering or some stripes or design somewhere. Have some freaking fun for once.

And before the AP comes out.....

I'll say this, Race is supposed to be out glue guy, our tough guy, our hustle guy. He's been none of it. Race might be great in practice, BUT at some point, you've gotta show up in games. At some point what you're doing on the court in a game has to mean more. This is a team that should be searching for answers anywhere it could. Maybe planting Races booty firmly on the bench would make something click in his head finally this season. He might be better than Banks, but how do we know how Banks would answer when getting run with the starters? I think there are solutions here. Maybe going small and athletic would be the better option. I mean we've won a B1G title with Troy Williams at the 4. It can be done again.

At this point in the season, I wouldn't say Race has earned his starting spot.

*Should* If I'm Woody, Banks is getting run at the 4 along TJD/Reneau just to see. I wanna see how he'd play with the starters. He's athletic and aggressive. Maybe he'd bring a spark this team desperately needs.

And a jersey is their work uniform. That's their suit and tie. It's not a massive thing, but grab a different every now and then.

And it's that attitude that put us 50 years behind on a new locker room. And continue to put is behind schools who take their basketball program seriously. If you're not going to do the little things, you don't actually care.

Right... But rather than look at from your old geezer eyes, look at it from an 18 year olds perspective. Let's face it, Adidas is garbage. It has been for a long time. And he's right, "swag" is important. Or I think kids nowadays use the word "drip" or something like that. Gotta cater to them. Catering to 60 year olds... Not gonna get you anywhere. It could definitely help IU to throw out some news unis and have alternates. It never hurts... Unless you're sponsored by Adidas... And you get pink highlighter unis like Louisville did.

I would have been fine with that. Going to the ACC was a terrible decision though for UofL, ND, Cuse and Pitt. No doubt. They started off hot... And now it's the opposite.

These are the 9 seasons leading up to the BE breakup and the 9 after. I didn't like the breakup then, I didn't like the other schools leaving for the ACC. 10 years later, UofL, Cuse, Pitt and Notre Dame... Meh to really bad. UConn? Makes a move BACK to the Big East... 2nd year in and they are the best team in the Big East. Personally, I felt if those schools were going to leave that UConn, UofL, Syracuse, Notre Dame, Pitt should have just started their own conference completely. Would have benefitted their programs way more in the long run. Go ahead and bring along South Florida and 4-6 others and I think you'd have a great 4-5 bid conference. Conference realignment has done nothing more than create more 1 bid leagues and I think that's hurt college basketball. But what do I know. Edit: Top photo is 2013-2014 through 2021-2022 Bottom photo is 2004-2005 through 2012-2013

They won a national title in 2016. The Big East broke up after the 2012-13 season. It took just 3 seasons after that.

And during all that time... They were a middle of the pack Big East team... Then a certain thing happened... Before 2014, Nova had won conf titles in: 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1997, 2006... Just 7. After the breakup... 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021... 7 more... Conf tourneys? Had only won 2 before and won 5 after. That breakup did more to college basketball than people want to realize. And I don't believe in a good way.

Kinda my point... Villanova became what it did because of the Big East breakup.

Villanova... Not really their doing though.

Well it didn't help him he isn't a good coach by any measure. Plenty of losses where there weren't any excuses. 1st game of his career literally told us everything, which is absolutely insane.

That wasn't for playing like hot garbage though.

I didn't say he was the solution. But I'd rather see him out there hustling than anyone who decides they are too cool for it.