Illinois Football Uniforms

#127      
logjam
The curse of the Blue Uniforms is Broken...!
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#129      
Toews
Tbh I didn’t like how it looked at all together but as a piece the helmet was cool. I’d prefer to stick with the orange.
 
#132      
TentakilRex
mattcoldagelli said:
You know who has an underratedly terrible uniform? Ole Miss. Multiple different blues. A logo that has no business being used on a helmet (stacked and staggered bunched-up text?). Haphazardly switching between white and gray.

And that’s to say nothing of whatever this helmet they’re using for the Sugar Bowl is.
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#134      
Ramrod2010
I'll stand with @mattcoldagelli on this one.

They have a color scheme that can work. But there is no consistency and, seemingly, very little thought about how it all works together.

And they need to figure something else out for helmet decal, because script "enter team names state" works for a lot of teams.

"Ole"
--"Miss"

Does not work (dashes added to emphasize the offsetness).

Throw those multicolor helmets on last night and it was just a mess of "Look what we can do!"
 
#136      
Fighter of the Nightman
ugottabjoshinme said:
This. I think Ole Miss looks great
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I'll agree Ole Miss can look great, but I also agree with Matt's point. There are certain schools who I feel kind of "throw crap at the wall" to see what sticks, and it comes across as insecure and like they don't have a lot of confidence our pride in a traditional look associated with their school, colors, history, etc. Iowa State sort of comes to mind here, and we were very much like this with the Beckman Era uniforms. Ole Miss looks awesome sometimes, but they're sort of all over the place.
 
#137      
Fighter of the Nightman
Also, Ole Miss is "lucky" like Illinois to have two REAL colors with which to work ... why go and fix something that isn't broken?? For the purpose of the list below, I will define "real" colors as ones that are not white, with some admittedly subjective exceptions. For example, black is clearly a "real color" along with yellow for Iowa, but in the case of Georgia it is very clearly more of an accent, IMO. Gold and darker grays will count as "semi-accent" colors, especially depending on how they are used (e.g., Purdue uses a type of gold in a way that makes it seem more like they have two "real" colors). Looking at just the Big Ten and SEC...

Only One Color | 17 Schools
These schools very clearly only have one "real" color, and whatever other color is included functions strictly as an accent.
Alabama (Red & White)
Arkansas (Red & White)
Indiana (Red & White)
Nebraska (Red & White)
Oklahoma (Red & White)
Wisconsin (Red & White)
Rutgers (Red & White/Black)
Ohio State (Red & Gray)
Georgia (Red & Black/Gray)

Texas A&M (Maroon & White)
Mississippi State (Maroon & Gray)

Tennessee (Orange & White)
Texas (Orange & White)

Northwestern (Purple & White/Black)

Michigan State (Green & White)

Kentucky (Blue & White)
Penn State (Navy & White)


In Between: Real(ish) Color Sort of Used as Accent Only | 5 Schools
My thought in this category is would the team ever have a jersey in either football or basketball in the accent color? Or is it pretty much always an accent to the primary color? For example, UCLA never wears gold/yellow in anything, and Maryland clearly prioritizes red and uses yellow/black equally these days. However, Vandy uses its gold less than Purdue, IMO, so they are in different categories.

UCLA (Blue & Gold)
Washington (Purple & Gold)
Maryland (Red & Yellow/Black)
Vanderbilt (Black & Gold)
South Carolina (Maroon & Black/White)


Two Real / Bold Colors | 12 Schools
These schools very clearly consider both colors to be primary to their brands and utilize both regularly.
Auburn (Navy & Orange)
Illinois (Navy & Orange)
Florida (Blue & Orange)

Michigan (Navy & Yellow)

Ole Miss (Blue & Red)

Oregon (Green & Yellow)

USC (Red & Yellow)
Minnesota (Maroon & Gold)

LSU (Purple & Yellow)

Iowa (Black & Yellow)
Missouri (Black & Pukey Yellow)
Purdue (Black & Gold)

TL;DR

So of the 34 schools in these two conferences, half of them have only one color (including NINE rocking some form of red and white!), only 15% of them REALLY have two primary colors with which to work and Ole Miss is the ONLY ONE with its specific color scheme. IMO, no need to fool around with looks like powder blue and white (and barely and red to speak of) when you have such a recognizable look to begin with! Same goes for Illinois ... we should literally never have a uniform that doesn't prominently use both navy and orange, and that's why our current default basketball 1LL1NO1S uniforms and our Lovie Era football uniforms are absolute crap.
 
#139      
skyIdub
Fighter of the Nightman said:
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Only One Color | 17 Schools
These schools very clearly only have one "real" color, and whatever other color is included functions strictly as an accent.
Alabama (Red & White)
Arkansas (Red & White)
Indiana (Red & White)
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#140      
mattcoldagelli
I am not doing my job as the "make things fit for purpose" guy if I don't point out that the already-bad "Ole Miss" on the helmet is getting made worse by modern helmet design, which pushes the text back away from the facemask depending the facemask/ear opening, resulting in the "Ole" sitting essentially on the back of some players' heads.
 
#143      
TentakilRex
#144      
RabidDawgClassic
Fighter of the Nightman said:
Also, Ole Miss is "lucky" like Illinois to have two REAL colors with which to work ... why go and fix something that isn't broken?? For the purpose of the list below, I will define "real" colors as ones that are not white, with some admittedly subjective exceptions. For example, black is clearly a "real color" along with yellow for Iowa, but in the case of Georgia it is very clearly more of an accent, IMO. Gold and darker grays will count as "semi-accent" colors, especially depending on how they are used (e.g., Purdue uses a type of gold in a way that makes it seem more like they have two "real" colors). Looking at just the Big Ten and SEC...

Only One Color | 17 Schools
These schools very clearly only have one "real" color, and whatever other color is included functions strictly as an accent.
Alabama (Red & White)
Arkansas (Red & White)
Indiana (Red & White)
Nebraska (Red & White)
Oklahoma (Red & White)
Wisconsin (Red & White)
Rutgers (Red & White/Black)
Ohio State (Red & Gray)
Georgia (Red & Black/Gray)

Texas A&M (Maroon & White)
Mississippi State (Maroon & Gray)

Tennessee (Orange & White)
Texas (Orange & White)

Northwestern (Purple & White/Black)

Michigan State (Green & White)

Kentucky (Blue & White)
Penn State (Navy & White)


In Between: Real(ish) Color Sort of Used as Accent Only | 5 Schools
My thought in this category is would the team ever have a jersey in either football or basketball in the accent color? Or is it pretty much always an accent to the primary color? For example, UCLA never wears gold/yellow in anything, and Maryland clearly prioritizes red and uses yellow/black equally these days. However, Vandy uses its gold less than Purdue, IMO, so they are in different categories.

UCLA (Blue & Gold)
Washington (Purple & Gold)
Maryland (Red & Yellow/Black)
Vanderbilt (Black & Gold)
South Carolina (Maroon & Black/White)


Two Real / Bold Colors | 12 Schools
These schools very clearly consider both colors to be primary to their brands and utilize both regularly.
Auburn (Navy & Orange)
Illinois (Navy & Orange)
Florida (Blue & Orange)

Michigan (Navy & Yellow)

Ole Miss (Blue & Red)

Oregon (Green & Yellow)

USC (Red & Yellow)
Minnesota (Maroon & Gold)

LSU (Purple & Yellow)

Iowa (Black & Yellow)
Missouri (Black & Pukey Yellow)
Purdue (Black & Gold)

TL;DR

So of the 34 schools in these two conferences, half of them have only one color (including NINE rocking some form of red and white!), only 15% of them REALLY have two primary colors with which to work and Ole Miss is the ONLY ONE with its specific color scheme. IMO, no need to fool around with looks like powder blue and white (and barely and red to speak of) when you have such a recognizable look to begin with! Same goes for Illinois ... we should literally never have a uniform that doesn't prominently use both navy and orange, and that's why our current default basketball 1LL1NO1S uniforms and our Lovie Era football uniforms are absolute crap.
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Back in 1983, Indiana leaned heavily on the cream in “cream and crimson,” resulting in their most mocked uniform until the infamous Indinia snafu.


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#145      
Poe's Law
Was watching the Winter Olympics and wondered if anybody else thought a Nike ACG uniform would be a unique idea we could pull off.

Feels like an Oregon type thing, but they feature orange in their branding and are trying to relaunch the brand. Maybe they wouldn’t want to muddy the waters but Jordan/Jumpman crossed over to football, could work with ACG.
 
#146      
Mr. Tibbs
Poe's Law said:
Was watching the Winter Olympics and wondered if anybody else thought a Nike ACG uniform would be a unique idea we could pull off.

Feels like an Oregon type thing, but they feature orange in their branding and are trying to relaunch the brand. Maybe they wouldn’t want to muddy the waters but Jordan/Jumpman crossed over to football, could work with ACG.
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