Who Needs Shoes To Coach A Basketball Game?

One of our favorite Chuck Klosterman ESPN columns asked a question we'd been wondering about ourselves: What happened to all the barefoot kickers? What an odd little trend that was; we kind of miss it. Apparently, we have only barefoot college basketball coaches as a replacement.

IUPUI head coach Ron Hunter will coach next Thursday's game against Oakland (Mich.) sans shoes. It's for a very noble cause too.

Hunter wants to collect 40,000 pairs of shoes, the number in honor of the 40th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr., to bring to Africa to give to people who are not fortunate enough to have shoes. And for one game he will coach without shoes on himself.

It's impossible not to want to support Hunter's cause, but we think this should go to the next level; two teams should play a game entirely without shoes. We wonder what it would do to the game; if someone had a career night, they could start a trend. We knew they were lying all along when they said it had to be the shoes.

Shoeless Ron [Daily Orange] A Brilliant Idea (For Now) [ESPN]