ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
And shiny!
Illini Basketball Uniforms
PizzaHutParkingLot
- Vodice, Croatia
OrangeBlue98
Iowa is not in a great spot right now (LvilleILL1)
- Des Moines, IA
We're one uniform away from my ideal rotation. FI in all three colors as our default set. And orange and white scripts for alts.
Just need the white FI uni to make a comeback.
I'm content with our current situation though. How awesome is it that we got fresh uniforms the same year we go back to the Final Four. Just a cool season all the way around.
Just need the white FI uni to make a comeback.
I'm content with our current situation though. How awesome is it that we got fresh uniforms the same year we go back to the Final Four. Just a cool season all the way around.
RabidDawgClassic
- Los Angeles, CA
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Can you apply your talents to show us the actually missing Navy Script?? Orange with white trim and the inverse for the piping (same setup as the other two).
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mattcoldagelli
- Script Illinois Enthusiast
It would, in fact, be extremely terrible
look like jammy-jams
Lol ya, the grey needs to be darker. Chat gpt didn't like making the grey darker so I got lazy. As I said, if they wanted to honor the Grey Ghost, it could be done once a year, but I would probably use the Navy Blues and just make the script and numbers grey.
chiefini
- Rockford, Illinois
To me, anything gray should only be in football (since Red Grange only played football, not basketball), and it should be used only in the case of a very special celebration game or anniversary… Stick to Orange and Blue and White, Illinois’ school colors…
OrangeBlue98
Iowa is not in a great spot right now (LvilleILL1)
- Des Moines, IA
Right with you. We have great colors and a wonderful set of templates, there’s really no need to mix things up unless it’s a true throwback like the 2005s.
I’ll say the same thing for football. Keep things simple and timeless, and don’t mess with it.
I agree
RabidDawgClassic
- Los Angeles, CA
Yes, we make the jersey a darker grey, then we take that darker gray jersey and incinerate it, and then we sweep up the ashes and fire them out of a cannon into the middle of the ocean, and then we enter a blood pact to never talk about this again, and it's perfect.
Yes, it would be
Lol oh come on. One here and there makes it cool. How about those football helmets they busted out. I wish they would bust out the 05 uniforms once in awhile. Im just glad they have the scripts and got rid of the god awful ones. Keep the scripts and do some fun things based on those and it could be cool.
I liked them as a High Schooler, also I know this is a heinous crime on this forum but I actually loved the zig zag uniforms when they came out. Again, I was a high schooler who thought anything new was cool. I don't necessarily hate them now as an adult, but looking back they were definitely a bold choice.
I know someone asked for a navy blue script mock-up, this is the best I could get ChatGPT to generate.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Thanks! I can fill in the rest with my mind.
Taking out the nostalgia other considerations and just trying to be objective for a moment in thinking about what non-Illini observers would think ... I have to imagine this might be our coolest looking option. Of course, this would be after fixing up the Chat GPT goofs to make it match the other ones (e.g., O/W/O trim instead of two stripes, the O/W/O trim also on the waste instead of mostly white, the area inside the diamond being navy rather than orange, etc.).While both our Script and Flyin' Illini uniforms are incredibly popular across the college hoops world from what I have seen, I have noticed a trend where our fans seem to favor each about equally (with a possible tilt toward the Flyin' Illini?), whereas neutral observers pretty overwhelmingly see the Script as even more elite. I'm guessing a Navy Script would REALLY be a hit.
EDIT: This got me thinking that it is always SUCH a superior look to go with a 3-strip pattern compared to a 2-stripe pattern ... the former looks refined and complete, and the latter looks weird and unfinished. Just compare these incredibly similar-on-paper orange script uniforms for Syracuse and us, two teams who obviously have super similar looks.
I think you could make reasonable arguments for things like whether or not it should be white font/navy outline or navy font/white outline (though I prefer ours) or whether or not the diamond design we have is better than the large white stripe Syracuse has (although ,,, come on, lol). However, their shoulder and neck stripe pattern just looks a lot sloppier and less refined than ours without an extra navy stripe to "close it in."
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This would be really cool. I think if I had to pick just one, between this and a navy Flyin Illini, I'd pick this