You know it's basketball season when...

Yep, I started coaching basketball again just a about two weeks ago.  How can I tell?

Well, here's what I've been coming home to each evening after practice:

Yeah, Gus is awfully cute in my discarded basketball shoe box. 

For the record, this is only the second time a head coach has purchased shoes for me, the freshmen coach.  It was a nice gesture that Gus and I can both get behind.  Well, in his case, inside.