Illinois Football Uniforms

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altgeld88
More arched ILLINI helmet deployment.

And I've finally made my peace with SLANT ILLINOIS after 37 seasons. In the same way I imagine that the Wolverine faithful who came of age during the Great Depression had made peace by the mid-'70s with Fritz Crisler taking Princeton's winged helmet design to Ann Arbor with him. ;)

That's all I've got moving into summer.
 
#6      
Fighter of the Nightman
IlliniCaboose said:
#BPOTR
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I've all but given up, haha ... and the amazing developments this year on the basketball uniform front has helped me deal with it. :ROFLMAO:

It seems that one of the following is the case, IMO. Just substitute "Bret" for whoever actually chooses the uniforms each game, but he has been the constant since we got the new uniforms.

(A) Bret absolutely hates the idea of blue pants with the white jersey in and of itself.


(B) When it comes to our uniforms' 3-stripe patterns, Bret thinks it would look bad to ever use three different ones. I of course think this would look totally fine, but it's just a guess, lol. For example, the all-navy Music City Bowl look only uses one striping pattern:
---> [O/W/O - on - Blue] helmet
---> [O/W/O - on - Blue] shoulder stripes
---> [O/W/O - on - Blue] pants

There are several combos where at least two match, with one example being our standard home uniform:
---> [B/W/B - on - Orange] helmet
---> [O/W/O - on - Blue] shoulder stripes
---> [B/W/B - on - Orange] pants

Assuming the standard orange helmet, the classic #BPOTR look would be three different ones:
---> [B/W/B - on - Orange] helmet
---> [B/O/B - on - White] shoulder stripes
---> [O/W/O - on - Blue] for the pants.


(C) Bret simply just does not care at all, and the mere possibility of wearing our blue pants on the road has literally never crossed his mind.



Personally, I find (C) really unlikely ... he seemed pretty invested in getting our uniforms back to this look. I also find (A) at least sort of unlikely, because we have worn blue pants at home (and most recently in Nashville) multiple times over the last few years. So, my bet would be some very casual preference toward (B) that he has?
 
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MoCoMdIllini
altgeld88 said:
More arched ILLINI helmet deployment.

And I've finally made my peace with SLANT ILLINOIS after 37 seasons. In the same way I imagine that the Wolverine faithful who came of age during the Great Depression had made peace by the mid-'70s with Fritz Crisler taking Princeton's winged helmet design to Ann Arbor with him. ;)

That's all I've got moving into summer.
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That math can't be right. I remember when they debuted those my freshman year and that was at best 10 years ago.

Oh, man.
 
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