That's definitely true, and I had the same thought when I was compiling the record. But if you go back and look at some of the games that we lost wearing those uniforms, it really is stunning how ugly and shocking some of those losses were. The Eastern Illinois exhibition game, for example. The UNLV game. At Wake Forest. Heartbreaking losses at Maryland. Loses at Penn State, Rutgers, Minnesota, Nebraska, etc. Multiple first round exit losses at the B1G tourney.
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Lot of superstition in sports, but I see this a bit like the golf adage "it's not the club, it's the person swinging it." We could have put those teams in 80s Lakers, 90s Bulls, or our own orange jerseys and results would have been the same.
If players feel more confident in a given jersey and less confident in another, it can absolutely make a difference. I assume the team picks the jerseys they want to play in for a variety of reasons, and if they're not ever picking the blues, I trust it's the right choice for the team!Lot of superstition in sports, but I see this a bit like the golf adage "it's not the club, it's the person swinging it." We could have put those teams in 80s Lakers, 90s Bulls, or our own orange jerseys and results would have been the same.
Bring back the blues!
I have no problem with choosing certain colors over others, but I do not like how we use the throwbacks, personally. If you for some bewildering reason actually like our normal ones compared to the throwbacks, then we should save the throwbacks in a way that keeps their novelty and brands them as "special" (e.g., wearing them for Braggin' Rights, Paint the Hall Orange, NCAA Tournament games, etc.). If you are like me and think our regulars are lame and our throwbacks are the coolest jerseys in college hoops ... then just wear the frickin' throwbacks as our regulars! What I think is kind of weird is to wear either/or about 50% of the time and kind of get the worst of both worlds.
I agree that the blues are the best of the new jerseys, but I get why we don't wear them. I think both the white and orange new ones are very bland and that minimalist style works better as football jerseys.
But the white script jerseys are so nice
Depends. We win first game out in them, the curse is officially broken. We lose, we never see blue jerseys again
I love the Blues! Always have. Muddy, Clapton, etc.
Haha, yes! And therefore blues should 100% be worn 11/7 at 8pm and we can put this thing to rest
If I show up to that game and they're wearing blues, I'm blaming you.Haha, yes! And therefore blues should 100% be worn 11/7 at 8pm and we can put this thing to rest
Totally agree with you on set vs. set, but step one is just getting any blue set back in the rotation.
Eh. I don't miss the blues enough to agree with that per se. I also think our current marketing plan would allow for that
I think those are slightly more recent blues and we’d actually roll with these (which the ‘05 boys didn’t wear ONCE!):
Yeah, they didn't and I didn't want to go with the only pic I could find if Dee Brown in a blue version of these because they had that weird gray patch on the shoulder.I think those are slightly more recent blues and we’d actually roll with these (which the ‘05 boys didn’t wear ONCE!):
