Illini Basketball Uniforms

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altgeld88

altgeld88
Arlington, Virginia
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IlliniCaboose said:
I love how no one seems to know how old us Millennials are. We're in our 30s and that vast majority of us still learned cursive in 3rd grade.
Millennial seems to be the catch-all term for "Anyone younger than me that I disagree with."
Then again Boomer now seems to be "Anyone older than me that I disagree with." So I guess it goes both ways.
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As a X-er whom the young confuse with a Boomer (God forbid!), I appreciate this clarification. And I resent the implication that I'm any less capable of scowling "Get off my lawn!!" and then shuffling back onto the porch in my socks and Tevas than my immediate elders are.

I will admit that my mind was blown when I learned that my daughter was not being taught cursive in elementary school ~ a decade ago. I mean, it's an imperative if for no other reason than to enable her to appreciate our late '70s basketball jerseys.
 
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RabidDawgClassic

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IlliniCaboose said:
I love how no one seems to know how old us Millennials are. We're in our 30s and that vast majority of us still learned cursive in 3rd grade.
Millennial seems to be the catch-all term for "Anyone younger than me that I disagree with."
Then again Boomer now seems to be "Anyone older than me that I disagree with." So I guess it goes both ways.
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Meanwhile, Gen-Xers be bridging the gap like:

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skyIdub

skyIdub
Winged Warrior
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IlliniCaboose said:
I love how no one seems to know how old us Millennials are. We're in our 30s and that vast majority of us still learned cursive in 3rd grade.
Millennial seems to be the catch-all term for "Anyone younger than me that I disagree with."
Then again Boomer now seems to be "Anyone older than me that I disagree with." So I guess it goes both ways.
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lol...easy now...no need to get your....Caboose.... all crooked! My kid is a Millennial and knows cursive...as does my close friend....a fringe Millennial (82'). So I know exactly how old they are!

Ima teaser...and just recently watched the comedian's routine where she lays out that Gen X'ers plans to take over the world.....are written in cursive.

You guys can't stop us.
 
#230      

splitter

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and not Nebraska
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BTW I only use cursive when filling out a check. /s actually I print. also /s
 
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PepeSilvia

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21ChampaignSt said:
It's kind of just an educated feeling. I do work in branding, so I have a little bit of familiarity with these types of projects. But it's also really hard to project what will stick.

People associate stylized script with vintage or retro. It works really effectively for some brands like Coke, for example, who has used the same mark for 150 years and basically sells nostalgia. But I dont think it has quite the same effect for our brand. I think some of what people are responding to with our script word mark is the vintage novelty of it.

There are actually quite a few schools who have script throwbacks right now because it's on trend. But my feeling is it will go back out of trend eventually like it's done before.

Basically, I think it's trendy not timeless.

Again, mostly just a feeling. Like I said, I love them but if I were advising the team on a look to commit to for the rest of basketball eternity, it probably wouldn't be the script.

The Fighting Illini jerseys on the other hand are more timeless, I think. And they're also more of a template that can be adapted over time. You can tweak the font if you want or change the stripes or whatever, but as long as you have Fighting on top and Illini on bottom it'll be an ownable and timeless look.
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Maybe, but I think the script jerseys have basically looked great forever.

The White Sox have been using the grey script jerseys for as long as I've watched and they're so clean. The cursive Chicago bulls jersey is also their best jersey imo.

The flying Illini jerseys are cool throwbacks but having Fighting Illini on the front enclosing the numbers is simply too busy. The script jerseys are just perfection and you can always tweak minor things details to update them.

I would love to see it as their main jersey with an orange version than use the blue flying Illini throwbacks then just pick another alt or two to rotate through.
 
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Fighter of the Nightman

Fighter of the Nightman
Chicago, IL
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Script whites and orange Flyin’ Illini throwbacks are objectively some of the greatest uniforms in all of college hoops. My friends who hate the Illini regularly talk about how cool both are.

Even if you don’t agree our regulars are C+ uniforms at best … how can ANYBODY prefer them?! Just retire them already. Script whites at home, orange Flyin’ Illini on the road, mix and match as the teams’ color combos allow.

Eventually/ideally, add the missing colors for both styles … but we should wear throwbacks every game.
 
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Cook

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Richmond, VA
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UConn's unis tonight (this year I guess) are supremely terrible. The cutoff armpit block stripe and the HUSKIES down the leg of the shorts look like :poop:
 
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Illini IndyCar Fan

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Fighter of the Nightman said:
Script whites and orange Flyin’ Illini throwbacks are objectively some of the greatest uniforms in all of college hoops. My friends who hate the Illini regularly talk about how cool both are.

Even if you don’t agree our regulars are C+ uniforms at best … how can ANYBODY prefer them?! Just retire them already. Script whites at home, orange Flyin’ Illini on the road, mix and match as the teams’ color combos allow.

Eventually/ideally, add the missing colors for both styles … but we should wear throwbacks every game.
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I'd love to see the return of the white and blue Flyin' Illini jerseys as well. We'd easily have the best uniform set in all of CBB with that throwback set + the script jersey.
 
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redwingillini11

redwingillini11
White and Sixth
North Aurora
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Whether or not we go to our Flyin Illini or script throwbacks full-time, it is time to move on from this base set. Are they bad, no, not at all. But there is nothing special about them and we deserve something better. I will settle though if we get a 2005 throwback next season. Script Illini in white and blue, and '89 and '05 throwbacks in orange. I think that is what we should be looking to do.
 
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Poe's Law

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Illini IndyCar Fan said:
I'd love to see the return of the white and blue Flyin' Illini jerseys as well. We'd easily have the best uniform set in all of CBB with that throwback set + the script jersey.
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I would also enjoy seeing the Flying Illini set in all colorways.

Heck break out a green version if we play a tournament game on unofficial St. Paddy’s Day.
 
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Toews

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mattcoldagelli said:
Maybe a controversial take but our "rebrand" blues are the best uniforms of that set:
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Would be perfectly happy to live in a world where our white is The Script, orange is Flyin' Illini, and blue is this.
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I agree and it's really not close. Only uniform that used the stupid format Nike used from the Lovie football team gave us and did something interesting with it.
 
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Fighter of the Nightman

Fighter of the Nightman
Chicago, IL
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Illini IndyCar Fan said:
I'd love to see the return of the white and blue Flyin' Illini jerseys as well. We'd easily have the best uniform set in all of CBB with that throwback set + the script jersey.
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Amen. What's weird is that during the Groce years, we DID have a white Flyin' Illini throwback jersey, and we have not worn it in several years. For example, we were wearing these during Rice's famous buzzer beater to win Braggin' Rights. I have no idea why we don't just rock with these jerseys 100% of the time ... we can just alternate between the two styles and do something a bit different compared to other programs! It would help us stand out in a legitimately cool way.

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Alternates for Next Season (Used sparingly for huge games and maybe the NCAA Tournament)

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mattcoldagelli said:
Maybe a controversial take but our "rebrand" blues are the best uniforms of that set:
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Would be perfectly happy to live in a world where our white is The Script, orange is Flyin' Illini, and blue is this.
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I hope that is not controversial! The orange and white versions suffer from my issue with the previous football set ... we utilize orange on white or white on orange with zero blue, and it looks like we just didn't really care how they turned out. So, we end up using only one of our primary colors and white ... and it looks stupid, IMO. Also, the font for "1LL1NO1S" just looks too small on our default basketball jerseys! With the navy versions, you at least correct those two issues, as we have orange on blue, and having it say "FIGHTING" and "ILLINI" at least fills up more of the jersey.

Toews said:
I agree and it's really not close. Only uniform that used the stupid format Nike used from the Lovie football team gave us and did something interesting with it.
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What's really perplexing is that the women have an infinitely better color/font scheme than the men with our default jerseys:

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Just using both of our colors in ANY way (whether that is an outline, actually using both colors for fonts, etc.) just makes it look so much less cheap. Again, I am a broken record here ... but our Lovie Era aesthetic combined being minimalist and being modern to make a look that just looked boring and bad, lol.
 
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Fighter of the Nightman

Fighter of the Nightman
Chicago, IL
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skyIdub said:
Omg yes....this.... with the Block I or the Shield on the collar and to replace the Chief on the shorts...needs to happen!

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A picture of those uniforms (other than the big team photos where you can barely see them) is shockingly difficult to find, haha. All of the good photos of our Flyin' Illini players seem to be in the white or orange uniforms.

Also a funny/interesting note is that our 2005 and 2022 teams were (to my knowledge - someone correct me!) the only teams in my lifetime to literally never wear the blue uniforms once all year. I am not 100% sure about 2022, but I know for a fact the 2005 team never did.
 
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altgeld88

altgeld88
Arlington, Virginia
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skyIdub said:
Omg yes....this.... with the Block I or the Shield on the collar and to replace the Chief on the shorts...needs to happen!

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Those road blues were indeed dope. I miss them. Also, for the thousandth time (and thanks to @Fighter of the Nightman for including it once again) the script orange is an imperative:

[EDIT: And, BTW, Fighter, the block FI orange was inaugurated in 1988-89, IIRC. Before that, back to the institution of the block text FI jerseys in the 1980-81 it was white/home blue/road. (Although I found a 1981 Indiana video where we're wearing the script orange on the road in Bloomington. We may have worn the script orange on the road through '81.) Before that, and after Lou arrived, they had the white script jerseys for home and orange script road for four or five (?) seasons. That era predates my attention to the program so someone can correct my assumption about the road orange.]

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IlliniCaboose

IlliniCaboose
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Fighter of the Nightman said:
A picture of those uniforms (other than the big team photos where you can barely see them) is shockingly difficult to find, haha. All of the good photos of our Flyin' Illini players seem to be in the white or orange uniforms.

Also a funny/interesting note is that our 2005 and 2022 teams were (to my knowledge - someone correct me!) the only teams in my lifetime to literally never wear the blue uniforms once all year. I am not 100% sure about 2022, but I know for a fact the 2005 team never did.
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I've got a Luther Head Jersey in Navy from that era (I got it at the Mall of America in 2004 and they didn't have the orange in stock). If I recall a lot of people didn't like those because it had black paneling on the sides.
 
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