I just really hate football jerseys with the school or nickname huge in the front, looks terrible and cheap and like a Target Halloween costume for a 6 year old.
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ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
The thing about having the name across the front of the jersey is that some schools always do it, some schools never do it, but very rarely does a school go from one to the other.
And it's not just schools with "classic" uniforms either. Michigan State, Texas Tech, Houston, Colorado, it's just an assumed part of the visual identity of some teams.
Kinda weird.
And it's not just schools with "classic" uniforms either. Michigan State, Texas Tech, Houston, Colorado, it's just an assumed part of the visual identity of some teams.
Kinda weird.
mattcoldagelli
- The Transfer Portal with Do Not Contact Tag
If we were to add a *third* font (in addition to script and, for lack of a better term, the "rebrand/motion") I would absolutely lose my mind.
You could argue with how different the script Illinois is compared to the script Illini, that this would be a fourth font
MoCoMdIllini
- Montgomery County, Maryland
It sounds like the time has come for Papyrus to make its college football debut.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
A good lesson in "simple" and "classic" not having the same meaning.our current combo just looks like a color explosion to me.
The intention was to evoke the Butkus-era throwbacks from the 2008 stadium re-dedication that all the Peoria Dads always wet themselves over, but they just didn't accomplish it successfully.
mattcoldagelli
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TheFlyingIllini1317
- Chicago, IL
We don't need that big Illinois across our chest. Looks silly, we are the only big ten team with orange and blue then helmet and colors say it all.
Wouldn't be surprised if it's very similar, or if it's even the jersey, since it is the current Nike template jersey. Also includes some of what was mentioned. It would be a little disappointing though if Nike basically didn't include any Illinois exclusive aspect since this is basically the Ok State jersey exactly but with the stripes on the shoulder, which isn't even an Illinois tradition.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Agreed ... I would prefer that the rebrand/motion font die a very quick death, and I imagine many others agree. I would also like us to treat the script Illinois
as more of a logo than a font. In other words, it can theoretically be on jerseys or helmets or in social media posts, but it should only ever say "Illinois." It should not just become the font we use to randomly write stuff like "Champaign" in a post about it being ranked as a great college town, lol. Since we nixed our only "secondary logo" with the Chief being removed, this would effectively be a way of representing our logo other than the Block I, ala what UCLA and Ole Miss do.
As for player names and whatever other "normal/default Illini font" we use, I say just go with something like what is on the orange 1989 Flyin' Illini jerseys.
I'm honestly struggling to think where we would use this type of stuff ... Olympic sports jerseys? As another aside, script Illinois would look DAMN fine on baseball jerseys, haha. I would actually be totally fine with our new football jerseys not having any type of script on them but having both end zones have the Script Illinois logo - that is a space where I think it would look really good.
Nah I don’t think it’s this. Bielema said we’d recognize some of the look and I don’t recognize this at all lol
mattcoldagelli
- The Transfer Portal with Do Not Contact Tag
This Shield erasure will not stand.
No cursive scripts on helmets or uniforms.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
SURELY, you mean for football only. In which case I’m sympathetic.
However, I have to question the sanity of any person who hates our script basketball jerseys or that doesn’t think the script would look amazing on a baseball jersey!
Call me crazy, but I consider cursive script on basketball uniforms a half of a step above 1LL1NO1S with the "Rollerball" numeral font. I prefer block font arched "ILLINOIS" or "ILLINI" with block numerals. Now get off of my lawn.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
I grew up around a lot of Iowa fans (in Iowa City) and now live in Chicago (plurality Illini fans but a true melting pot), so I have always gotten a lot of "outside perspectives" on all things Illini and tried to take those into account from time to time. These friends will have great things to say about Illinois (e.g., "The War Chant was objectively the coolest marching band song in college sports") and less flattering things to say about Illinois (e.g., my oft-mentioned/parroted statement that the Horseshoe is the one ugly eyesore at Memorial Stadium), but none of them have much love for the Illini.
With that said, every single one of my friends, whether they are Iowa fans or Purdue fans or Wisconsin fans, thinks our two throwback basketball jerseys are easily among the best in college hoops.
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