dgcrow
- Kelso, WA
Ditch the greys, keep the blue jerseys, ditch the blue pants.
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TheFlyingIllini1317
- Chicago, IL
Blue pants are great on the road, especially when playing a team that has a similar pant color to orange like Iowa.
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lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
Home: O-B-O
Away: O-W-O
Homecoming: Orange out crowd & O-O-O
Away: O-W-O
Homecoming: Orange out crowd & O-O-O
Correct, but O-W-W also acceptable on the road.
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
I like it, I even like the all white storm trooper unis, but I think it’s important to build an identifiable look.
Wear the same thing at every home game (except one) and every road game.
dgcrow
- Kelso, WA
Dark pants make the players look smaller, IMO. And I really don't think the color of the uniforms the Illini wear should be determined by the color of the opposing team's uniforms.
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mattcoldagelli
- The Transfer Portal
Oh man, the numerals in this font look realllly good. Somebody step in and throw some cold water on me.
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
Based on the final score of that Micron PC Bowl, I would take those jerseys all day long.
I think the darker orange came with the shield rebrand.
Tophe
- Middle TN
Our orange was 7417C back in 2017
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Against Northwestern, we should absolutely look like the Bears.
Home: B-B-W
Road: B-W-B
Alternate: B-O-W
mattcoldagelli
- The Transfer Portal
So this pains my #TeamShield heart, but the Nike rebrand can now officially be declared a failure in every way, right? I know we can zero in on some positive developments (cleaned-up Block I, the aforementioned Shield), but the goal was to stop each individual sport from doing its own separate thing, which in turn was separate from what the University as an institution was doing and now we're.....right back to doing that, in perhaps even more pronounced ways (basketball and football have maybe less in common than ever before when it comes to how they look).
I will give all of us armchair designers a bit of credit that we saw the fatal flaw - the font - from the outset, we just perhaps didn't see how quickly it would cause things to unravel. It can't be stressed enough that when we don't have much else in terms of a visual identity, the font HAS to be something that people want not just to use, but use in a lot of different ways.
I will give all of us armchair designers a bit of credit that we saw the fatal flaw - the font - from the outset, we just perhaps didn't see how quickly it would cause things to unravel. It can't be stressed enough that when we don't have much else in terms of a visual identity, the font HAS to be something that people want not just to use, but use in a lot of different ways.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
In some ways I feel like the goal of brand uniformity itself was a trendy 2014-era fad.
Like, Michigan State was always held up as a great exemplar of that, and their basketball team wears a rotating cast of throwbacks all the time now just like we do.
redwingillini11
White and Sixth
- North Aurora
You are 1000% correct. I had a long rambling post about how brand uniformity did not always work. Alas, here we are.
GrayGhost77
- Centennial, CO
I feel like if they can just keep a few elements consistent, i.e. colors, logo, then the rest is just minutia. I don't care if there are other consistent themes across different sports as long as a) they are recognizable as Illinois teams, and b) they look good.
mattcoldagelli
- The Transfer Portal
Generally, I agree, but we needed it more than others. MSU can get away with that because they have Sparty, the Block S, the Spartan logo, the stylized arched "State" - a bunch of great, unique marks that you can pull from as needed.
If you were creating something right now and needed to add one element to unmistakably identify it as being affiliated with the University of Illinois, what would it be? I think probably you'd have no option but to go with the Block I, right?
GrayGhost77
- Centennial, CO
Yep. Block I is the only uniquely "us" thing that most people would be able to identify. Could have said the chief logo back in the day but that isn't happening. I wish we hadn't abandoned the shield so soon because that would have been another. Alas...
JFGsCoffeeMug
BU:1 Trash cans:0
- Chicago
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The circular chief symbol. I (we) love no other.
You must be new here, that's not how things work on this message board. Your opinion on a subject, particularly if you feel VERY STRONGLY about it, is absolutely correct!
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