So many thoughts
- It actually seems to me like they've gotten the I's straight here, am I crazy?
- The white facemasks look good. What will make them coalesce better is having a white chinstrap and white padding inside the helmet. Small details, but they matter
- So the stripe is clearly (to me) meant to mimic the color of the block I. Blue bordered by white. Which is fine as far as it goes, but the issue is that it's a rebrand fail, it's not the "columns" stripes which are on the basketball uniforms and are subtly patterned into the numbers on the jersey. Needs consistency one way or the other.
- Whatever stripe you have on the helmet, put it on the pants.
- Since these hearken back to 90's/00's era helmets, everyone will assume we'll have white numbers on the next jersey set as we did back then. NOT SO FAST MY FRIEND. Keeping with the Block I coloration aesthetic would point toward orange numbers, except with a white border a la the Tony Eason photo above. That would then be consistent with the helmet logo and striping and tie the whole thing together.
- Another little thing is that the block I on the collar should have a white border
- The next round of the Nike process is going to give us the opportunity to make really dramatic changes to the jerseys if we want to. I think we should consider not doing that. Matching the helmet and pants stripe to the sleeves might well be too same-y. One little thing I really liked in this set was not having a contrasting collar on the blues, that's overused I hope we stay away. Just add the border and let the rest of the stuff do the work.
- I don't currently have access to my computer for doing so (long story) but I should be able to mock up this stuff I'm talking about some time in the next few days
- I'm not crazy about the "FamILLy" nose bumper, but much better programs than ours do stuff like that these days, I can't accuse it of being Beckman-y too much.
- This is progress! We are doing less wrong here, and there is definitely a metaphor for the Bielema Era in that.