On Monday IU Athletics announced that player names will be returning to the back of the school’s football jerseys after a season in which they were removed to become uniform with the rest of the department’s garb.
That experiment—nameless football jerseys—went about as well as expected. Fans weren’t happy about it from the get-go and it has officially been declared dead.
”After listening to feedback from a variety of sources, particularly from our fans, I believe it is the right decision to return to an exception for football to our tradition of not having players’ names on our uniforms,” IU Vice President and Director of Athletics Fred Glass said.