Basketball Uniforms
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Illini BasketballVerified account @IlliniMBB 3m3 minutes ago
First look at the fresh new whites for this season
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12:48 PM - 20 Sep 2018
Awful. These look just thrown together with little thought or effort. They look like the unofficial sort of knock-off "uniforms" you can buy for a discount. Can we get some Syracuse hand-me-downs still?
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haasi and ChiefIllini
Count me out on these. Pretty sure I own a pair of those shorts from 2001. I'll wait till I see a play in them, but highly disappointed.
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- Los Angeles
lmao. I can't say I care all that much but I am very much here for the two-tone letter backlash.
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haasi and sacraig
LOL
Siri, combine everything bad about what we're doing with everything bad about what Kentucky's doing
Siri, combine everything bad about what we're doing with everything bad about what Kentucky's doing
Actually, no, that's not even quite it.
This is actually Peak Rebrand, in that it utilizes the "columns" striping from the initial rebrand football uniforms in a way that would have made a lot of sense at the time. But we've entirely ditched that element with the new football uniforms, and as far as I know it's nowhere else in any of the other sports either.
And all the other sports have been ditching the two-tone lettering over the past year too.
I'll tell you what this is: it's a b-side castoff idea from like 2015 that we're bringing into the light of day just for the hell of it, probably because they just ran out of time to do it properly for this year. Which, y'know, whatever. But just know that this Nike template with white-on-white piping looks terrible on actual players:
This is actually Peak Rebrand, in that it utilizes the "columns" striping from the initial rebrand football uniforms in a way that would have made a lot of sense at the time. But we've entirely ditched that element with the new football uniforms, and as far as I know it's nowhere else in any of the other sports either.
And all the other sports have been ditching the two-tone lettering over the past year too.
I'll tell you what this is: it's a b-side castoff idea from like 2015 that we're bringing into the light of day just for the hell of it, probably because they just ran out of time to do it properly for this year. Which, y'know, whatever. But just know that this Nike template with white-on-white piping looks terrible on actual players:
- Aurora, IL
- Chicago, IL
Agreed, low effort and lazy. Looks like it was made in a day, the stripe is too wide and that triangle thing at the bottom of the shorts look awful. In graphic design classes we sometimes need over 50 thumbnails for an idea and it's a shame the university and or Nike doesn't put anywhere near that amount of effort.
I would bet you this arises from a mock-up created when Nike first debuted this uniform template two-plus years ago. "Here's what this would look like in an Illinois version"
- Charlotte, NC
the point of the rebrand was to have some consistency across all sports...
And yet, we come out with basketball uniforms that finally match our football uniforms ttttttttttthat we just got rid of
And yet, we come out with basketball uniforms that finally match our football uniforms ttttttttttthat we just got rid of
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Second and Chalmers
I mean...the two tone sucks but they aren’t that bad. This is basketball not a fashion show, I really don’t hate them but I have style and most of you are like 90.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think I preferred the zig zags... these are awful. Here's hoping it's one season stop gap.
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- Charlotte, NC
That's the thing i think I hate the most. The cut is WAY too slim. They look more like wife beaters (god I wish here was a better word for these shirts), rather than bball jerseys.Actually, no, that's not even quite it.
This is actually Peak Rebrand, in that it utilizes the "columns" striping from the initial rebrand football uniforms in a way that would have made a lot of sense at the time. But we've entirely ditched that element with the new football uniforms, and as far as I know it's nowhere else in any of the other sports either.
And all the other sports have been ditching the two-tone lettering over the past year too.
I'll tell you what this is: it's a b-side castoff idea from like 2015 that we're bringing into the light of day just for the hell of it, probably because they just ran out of time to do it properly for this year. Which, y'know, whatever. But just know that this Nike template with white-on-white piping looks terrible on actual players:
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Second and Chalmers
It is, that's been made publicly available. That's why it says "for this season"
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- Iowa City
For the past week, after other Nike schools have dropped the new uniforms, we were all pretty set on that being the layout, and mostly ok with it. The only thing that shocked me with this is the 2 tone Illinois. If it was one color, are we ok with this? Because this is the uniform we thought we were going to get.
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- Pdx
In general i like a clean a crisp look, but yeah this does kind of look like the TJ Maxx version. I could do without the orange stripes. Even change the wider blue stripes to orange fading or transitioning into blue with the orange block I in the field of blue part.
- Iowa City
If the big changes are coming next year, as tweeted out by Werner, then this is Nike putting us in the new cut that they have all Nike Elite schools wearing. And that is it.
- Central IL
Right. The only thing I'm truly bothered by is the lettering. Need to put that font and the two-tone to rest.
RedWing - these are not what you saw, correct? You had mentioned no more two-tone lettering...
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The majority of you probably wear short sleeved button ups from Kohl’s to work.
- Wilmette, IL
Oddly enough, that was the name of our band in college...
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