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[Don't forget about Russell Byrd though he's the best shooter on the team.]

You are a little bit off our 6'10 PF Adreian Payne shoots about 1-2 3's per game so it's not like he doesn't shoot many. Gary Harris our SG is shooting 41% from 3 and has been our most consistent shooter all year. He has been injured a lot though so whenever he isn't shooting very well like against Ohio state recently I just assume his shoulder popped out again. Also our backup PG Travis Trice is a pretty good shooter about 40% on the year. Don't forget about Russell Byrd though he's the best shooter on the team.

? In Practices only, Byrd has shot poorly all season long in game situations. If we could just get Valpo to wear MSU's practice jersey Byrd would get a double / double. But sadly Valpo will wear game Jerseys, pencil in Byrd for 3 points, 3 Rebounds and 3 turnovers.

[Wyoming is the only other school to use those two colors together, and they do a horrible job of sticking with it.]

Since we're on the topic of branding, I have to say that the adopted lime green accent color that was incorporated into the new marketing strategy showed a clear disconnect between VU and its athletic programs, IMO. With the new branding initiative, we had a wonderful opportunity to roll out a third color that could have also be used to enhance Valpo athletics by showcasing "alternate" jerseys or uniforms in that chosen color for special games or for special occasions. If done correctly, the accent color could have been really workable both administratively and athletically. (Think ND green.) Didn't happen that way at all. Yeah, I understand--green is the color of life or whatever so that is why it was chosen. However, VU is located 20 minutes from Lake Michigan, not 20 minutes from Key Largo.

Yeah, Marquette is able to use the powder blues quite nicely... I'm wondering if Valpo will eventually use the green in that capacity. Brown and Gold is already a pretty unique combination. Wyoming is the only other school to use those two colors together, and they do a horrible job of sticking with it. I don't understand why Valpo would hand out the green balloons when it had no other uniforms/aesthetics with the color. It looks good in publications, and it's used fairly consistently (only in script fonts or in small wavy lines on footers), but not sure how well it would translate to athletics.

Pretty sure there are quite a few schools that have brown and gold as their colors, I know Western Michigan University is Brown and Gold

Not here right now to analyze, regurgitate statistics or pass on opinions, I do reserve this right for later on however. Just wishing Valpo congrats on a fine season and cheers to a good game Thursday.