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I personally want to embrace the "cream" part of our colors more. Cream that outlines the letters and numbers. Get striping down that side that has red and cream(or white and cream on the red jerseys). I personally liked the cream jerseys we wore when Crean was here, but the jersey design itself was poorly executed.

I think if you reverse that with the uniforms it would work. I agree, most concepts that pop up suck and aren't original. Which is what I would like. And there isn't a ton we could do, but there are things we could. But me personally, I think going with 2 completely new home and away jerseys, two that are completely different than right now and possibly an alternate would work. But what you do from there is have a few nights throughout the season where you bring back our current or traditional look for throwback nights. And I get it if Adidas pays us the best right now... But i don't see how Nike wouldn't end up paying off way more down the road. Sticking with Adidas just seems like a right now move and not a 5, 10 years and on down the road kind of move. If I had the talent on a computer, I'd throw some concepts together, but I don't have those talents lol.

They actually win.

Most of them, yes.

I don't think the brand would be hurt whatsoever by changing jerseys. Pants are one thing, IMO, that don't actually need to change. But with NIL sales? No way different jersey designs would hurt jersey sales by any means. In fact, it's help because people would want that design, that design, that design. And the consumer apparel part has been talked about obviously... It's pretty weak with Adidas. But we will obviously continue sticking with Adidas because.... I don't actually know why.

And what is the difference between Indiana and Duke right now? Indiana and Kentucky? Kansas? North Carolina? Any sort of difference over the last 30 years at all?

Well he also had the charisma of a rock and a play style 50 years past it's time.

And everything connected with the program is connected to losing and mediocrity. That is what happens when you do nothing as program for basically the last 30 years.

Because some fresh air in the program would be nice. We have the biggest Twitter following of any B1G school. It's more than #2 and #3 combined. Social media reactions would be through the roof if Indiana got a little creative with brand new jerseys or something. And that's a massive positive towards the program. Modernizing the program is the goal. But that's only a part of the equation.

You must not believe in feng shui. And btw, I don't believe we need to change the pants. Even if the majority of people think they are goofy.

But you're also just simplifying one part of the problem into the only problem. New jerseys, new shoe deal(which would actually be huge) etc would help bring on change. But the people in charge also have to change. And Chris has said it before that there is basically zero attempt at negotiations with Adidas or coke by using any leverage that could come with leaving for Nike or Pepsi. Those are administration failures. It's been administration failure after failure. The aesthetics is just change to help the times because the past needs to be left where it is now. That includes the administration.

Sure, but it'll help. Whether you like it or not, time to cut the cord on the old and leave it in the past. Because it means nothing now.

So what you're saying is Indiana got duped into two hires by bad coaches and their camps?

We probably would be better off with Nike. They clearly pay better.

And what about the rest of the years? We've made the tourney only about half the time since the turn of the century. But instead of embracing change and trying something new and different, it's just keep repeating "This is Indiana." We keep doing this and it isn't working.

You mean like how people talk crap about striped pants? It isn't that there is a problem with the court or jerseys, but there is a problem with never changing because of "tradition" when any sort of winning tradition is gapped by a 3 decade period of mediocrity. Right now, striped pants are tied to mediocrity. Our jerseys are tied to mediocrity. Indiana basketball is mediocrity. It isn't winning. It isn't championships. It isn't making the tourney. It's losing. It's arrogance. It's ego. It's outdated. And there are zero plans to start something new.

I wasn't talking about our assistant coach. I was talking about Woody.

I don't need to defend it. We are watching it in real time. There isn't anything modern and up beat about the basketball program. Same jerseys for 70 years, basically the same court and a coach who looks like he's about to fall asleep half the time, who only got the job because his old fart friends wanted him to. And our coach is indeed an old fart who couldn't coach a modern way of basketball if his life depended on it. The program is stale and there isn't anyone in the administration or around it that wants to give the program any breath of fresh air and step into the 21st century.

That's where you're wrong. People absolutely do care.

Okey dokey.

Could you imagine if Indiana basketball changed the entire look of the court for once? Completely changed the uniforms? Hospitals would be filling up with candy striped old farts.

Indiana needs to evolve. Who doesn't want Indiana to evolve? The old farts on the BoT and old fart donors.

Does that actually help us any?

Well then it sounds like you and your friends are of the minority.

The Big Ten sucks.