I'll use the resurgence of this thread to repost my jersey concept from before the rebrand. As others have mentioned, having "Fighting Illini" on the front of our jerseys should be the tradition we build on.
Looks like "Our State. Our Team."Man...These are gooooood. More of these please.
White. Blue. Silver. Black. All the colors. More.
Edit: Whats the verbiage on the back collar?
Could we put the out line of our state on our shorts? Similar to the one on helmets?
This. Long live the shield!Love the shield, most of the athletes love the shield. Tennis by far uses it the most on their shirts and hats. Remember early on when Thomas refereed to it as a "badge", LOL. Anyway the Shield sells a lot of merchandise, it's nice to have an option along with "I".
No shield. Worst idea ever. Worse than any script. Worse than any other graphic. Nike just had to do something with the school's money.
The shield is horrible. My 6 yr old could of come up with that. Garbage
The shield is horrible. My 6 yr old could of come up with that. Garbage
So you prefer a standard BLOCK I which anyone who knows the alphabet can come up with?
The shield is horrible. My 6 yr old could of come up with that. Garbage
Pretty advanced, then, since my 3-year-old - as well as any other human who knows the Latin alphabet - can and has created our other "logo"
Haha. That did make me lol. Our block I is the best we have without the chief. I wish i had a better solution but without cheif it is relaity. i would rather just have the I and not have the generic looking shield as option. Once again, my oponion
+1. The shield is pretty unique IMO. Give it a few years and college bball fans around the country will begin to associate it with Illinois.I guess my question is, how is the shield generic? No other school has anything similar to . I love my school, but the couldn't be more generic.
Looks like there are some people to add to the enemies list.
Something like this jersey with a little tweeking:
Looks like "Our State. Our Team."
Illinois basketball has never had truly great uniforms, there, I said it.
And honestly, everything between the Flyin' Illini and the 01-05 era ones were absolutely heinous.
Agreed. As someone that didn't grow up in Illinois, and thus has zero nostalgia for the uniforms before I got on campus, I can say I've always been shocked by how many of our past uniforms are just brutal.
I spent several years in the Indianapolis area growing up, and the only positive thing that my Hoosier friends would give me about my Illini, is that they liked our midnight blue jerseys with the black trim. I know many people disagree, but these were some of my favorite jerseys. Especially because to me, they reflected the hard nosed brand of basketball we played at the time.