While I appreciate this joke, social media comment sections make it quite clear that young people consider our script jerseys to be among the best in college hoops, and I agree with them. The only problem with our two currently elite jerseys (script and the Flyin' Illini throwbacks) is that they obviously do not match ... so if it is important for us to have a "set of uniforms" using one of those, we would need either an orange and a blue script or a navy and a white Flyin' Illini set. Both would look absolutely amazing.
IMHO, this is not like football, where we lack any real history of success in the modern era and there have not been past uniforms universally adored by the fan base. Illini Basketball is steeped in tradition, and many of our past jerseys have been fan favorites ... just not our current ones. This might not be popular and it
definitely won't get past Nike, but I legitimately see zero reason for "new uniforms" ... I only see a reason to get rid of our current "regular uniforms." Choose either the script or the Flyin' Illini set to have as the "default" in orange, white and navy, and have the other set (preferably in all three colors, as well!) as our special uniforms. I think the current setup where we don't reserve the throwbacks for any type of special game (i.e., we wear them quite regularly) but ALSO still wear our (very underwhelming) "regular" jerseys is actually kind of the worst of both worlds. If it were totally up to me, I would probably go with the Flyin' Illini jerseys as our "default," and save the script ones for big non-conference games, Braggin' Rights, a Paint the Hall Orange night, postseason play, etc.
Default Home Jersey
Default Away Jersey
Default Alternate Jersey (How can I not find a better picture than this?!)
Throwback Jersey #1
Throwback Jersey #2
Throwback Jersey #3
[Paging graphic design gods to create an amazing navy script jersey]
Call it a day!