10 different uniforms for basketball is ridiculous. I'd rather just have 3 (last year we didn't get a red uniform, thats what I miss).
playing in a state of the art arena and new facilities isn't just face value of what those things bring, its shows the schools commitment to a winning basketball program. Xavier basketball is really the only sport they put a lot of money into and because of that they have great facilities, a great arena that is getting even better this year and a growing fan base that gets excited each year. They have hideous uniforms though (those tights shirts and MC hammer shorts are just terrible) and it has no affect on them.
If we moderinize our arena, then in turn do things like give out shirts to big games like X does (we didn't do that once last year for general fans) or have a midnight madness again or At very minimum turn the lights off and have some sort of show to hype the crowd and players during player introductions, then those things hype the fan base and which in turn brings more attention to the program. Loud uniforms might help but its nothing with out all the other things falling in line with it. X puts on a god damn fireworks display when they start a game, we on the other hand don't do anything but put people to sleep. A new arena gives us the technology to do new stuff, full up seats and thus get national exposure as an extremely tough place to play.
