NUgradCUfan wrote:3ontheway wrote:Burn the grey unis. Just get rid of them. They are ugly and drab and it seems like the Jays play ugly and drab basketball and it leads to an ugly and drab and sleepy home court crowd. It started with BE Championship game against G'Town a few years back if memory serves, and I know there have been quite a few terrible performances since. Last night was a terrible performance. 10 point home favorite and blew a 14 point lead. Just effing burn those unis.
We were in the baby blues when we got throttled by Georgetown, but I agree they need to get rid of the grays regardless.
And the player intro / songs during breaks is a complete mess. How incompetent has that division been for however many years now? It's a joke.
Instead of important stuff, I've been spending a lot of time thinking about our intro song since it got its own thread a few weeks ago, and I've just been waiting for somebody to bring it up again. Well, I think I've got it. I've got the solution. Maybe a perfect, end of discussion, solution. Birdland.
Pull up the instrumental on Youtube or whatever fills your music needs, and give it a listen. Then tell me your day didn't immediately get a little better. It's jazzy, it's upbeat, it's energetic. It'll put a bounce in your step. Flowers will smell better. The sun will shine brighter (unless it's night time, of course). By now, it's probably unique for an intro song. But what's old can be new again. It can be our signature. Something you hear and you think right away, Jays hoops. And then there's the title. I mean, come on.
And I'm not the only one who considered Birdland the perfect intro song. Creighton did too at one time because it WAS our intro song, until still another gameday crew rolled into town and, because Birdland wasn't written and released like six minutes ago, they trashed it. Kicked it to the curb. I say, bring it back.
And here's what else we should bring back. Billy rampaging through downtown Omaha right up there on the video board until he ends up stomping and crushing whatever that night's opponents' mascot happens to be (maybe a little problematic in the case of Providence). Birdland and a Billy stomp? A crowd-pleasing, energy-producing one-two punch that'll have everybody up and out of their seats.
But now that I've fixed our pre-game malaise, I've run out of ideas. As for everything that happened after the pre-game last night, I've got as many answers as we have reliable point guards. I do have an answer ready though if anybody asks me (nobody will) what I think our chances are of making the Final Four or even getting back to the Elite Eight. It's the same as Jasen Green's uniform number. Sure, I would have said the same thing a year ago, and look what happened. Except, this year feels different. We just don't have the horses to go very far and we can't fix it now. But we can at least fix that damn song..