They started it last year with Covid and no crowds and most of them have continued it this year. Not many suits and more polos, pullovers and hoodies. I hate the casual look. It looks like they’re coaching a rec game at the YMCA on a Saturday morning. Go back to the suits.
What do you think about college basketball coaches dressing down?
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I couldn’t care less. Never saw the need for them to wear a suit to begin with. You don’t see baseball or football coaches doing it
They're showing kids how to put a bouncy ball in a hoop in the air. What part of that involves wearing semi-formal attire?
Howland dresses like he's ready for an early morning...
shuffleboard match at an "Independent Senior Living Community" in Sarasota. Very appropriate if you ask me...
shuffleboard match at an "Independent Senior Living Community" in Sarasota. Very appropriate if you ask me...
As long as they don't wear shorts.**
I think a suit is somewhat ridiculous. I think slacks and a blazer is a good professional look, but it obviously really doesn't matter. I think if I were a coach starting out, I'd probably go with slacks and a blazer, just because some people care for whatever reason. If I were successful, I'd probably work my way to golf pants and a polo.
Coaches outfits have always fascinated me. Baseball coaches dress like the players, football normally slacks & a polo or something similar, while basketball coaches wear suits & ties.
And yet basketball coaches are normally the ones we see soaked in sweat. If anyone should be dressed like the players, it's a basketball coach who's constantly up & down his side of the court screaming & yelling. Let them wear shorts & a t-shirt.
And yet basketball coaches are normally the ones we see soaked in sweat. If anyone should be dressed like the players, it's a basketball coach who's constantly up & down his side of the court screaming & yelling. Let them wear shorts & a t-shirt.
Also, someone who wouldn't understand the tip calculator, slush funds, or wire taps.
Probably similar to the history of football coaches wearing a suit or a tie and sweater, etc.
I would guess it started 90 whatever years ago when wearing thst stuffy **** was normal.
I love it. A suit isn't comfortable. Coaches were constantly taking their jackets off due to heat/restriction. Shirts were comically sweated thru.
It was an absurd look and the change is for the better.
Huggins has terrible fashion, but it looks like he was ahead of the curve on this one.
Jay Wright can keep rocking his $5000 suits if he wants.
I've always thought it was ridiculous for any coach to wear a coat and tie no matter what sport. I think baseball managers wearing a uniform is just as dumb or worse. What if a basketball coach wore baggy *** shorts and a wife beater like his team?
I remember when Al Golden rocked out in a shirt and tie in like 2010, and he looked like an idiot even then.
I think there's some new guy trying to do it now too, somewhere in P5. Can't remember who it is.
You're young.
He wore jacket and tie in the 1970s and maybe even early 80s.
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He wore jacket and tie in the 1970s and maybe even early 80s.
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Not basketball, but a few years ago Jack Del Rio (when he was the jags head coach) wanted to wear a suit on the sideline as an homage to his father. The NFL wouldn’t let him, presumably because Nike doesn’t make suits.
Looked it up. Forgot that Reebok actually designed a suit for him. https://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=2663580
What is this, the late 90s?
Have you seen basketball in the last decade, and especially the last 5 years?
Baggy *** shorts?...keep up.
I’m cool with casual coaches. Some of these guys dress like pimps with their $4000 designer suits and alligator loafers. It’s a sport-not a banker’s convention. I get a mental picture of Rick Pitino in his Brooks Brothers finest-his fancy clothes didn’t take away from the fact that he was a low-down cheating POS, in my opinion. Not necessarily an opinion shared by everyone, I realize.
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