Illini Basketball Uniforms

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Toews
Fighter of the Nightman said:
It is pretty wild that coming off of a 5-7 season, the plans were clearly in the works for the football program to get...

- A Memorial Stadium 100th anniversary custom logo.
- A 1960s throwback helmet.
- A 1980s throwback helmet.
- A 1990s throwback helmet.
- An entire 1920s throwback uniform, complete with an insanely detailed custom helmet for one game.
- A special Wrigley Field-themed helmet for one game.
- A brand new Script helmet for our bowl game.

And the basketball uniform, fresh off of an Elite Eight appearance and entering the 20th anniversary of arguably our greatest team in program history, is going on like 8 years with its same uniforms that literally no one likes. :ROFLMAO:
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Well tbf that 100 year season was planned like four-five years in advance haha
 
#27      
Battle89
They are waiting for all three of the officials to retire, don't want a foul called on James during the anniversary ceremony.

Two are done but one is still director of officials for a small conference, just can't take the chance.

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#28      
Fighter of the Nightman
Toews said:
Well tbf that 100 year season was planned like four-five years in advance haha
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I mean, take that one off the table! New helmets Bret’s first year, fully new uniforms two years ago and two custom helmets last year that were unrelated to the anniversary. And basketball can’t even get Nike to make a throwback uniform we literally already have in a different color, let alone update an 8-year old set…
 
#31      
OrangeBlue98
Texas and Tennessee in a script vs script matchup in the SEC quarterfinals. Texas with their state name burnt orange uniforms while Tennessee is going with their "Vols" script whites.

If Maryland goes gold tonight, my vote is for script whites. The last two times we've worn white as the "visiting" team, it's worked out just fine (Iowa last year, Michigan this year). We just wore the base whites in those games, and I can't advocate for wearing our base uniforms anymore. So script whites it is.
 
#40      
OrangeBlue98
Fighter of the Nightman said:
After seeing UC San Diego having more intricate striping patterns than we have, I’m now convinced Brad has this perversely stupid belief that part of his persona is not caring about uniforms. Because I’m running out of reasons why we are in the 7th year with uniforms nobody likes…
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Apparently Brad cares as much about uniforms as he cares about defense…..
 
#41      
the juiceman cometh
Fighter of the Nightman said:
After seeing UC San Diego having more intricate striping patterns than we have, I’m now convinced Brad has this perversely stupid belief that part of his persona is not caring about uniforms. Because I’m running out of reasons why we are in the 7th year with uniforms nobody likes…
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At some point within the last 7 years UC San Diego switched from Adidas to Under Armor, so they got new jerseys. That's one strategy we could employ, but I don't think it'd be worth it.
 
#45      
Fighter of the Nightman
Iloveorangekoolaid said:
No no no. If anything, become a Jordan brand which should inspire a reboot of the base set
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I actually suggested this once (every Jordan brand uniform in both sports is cool), and someone told me that would still be Nike. However, I’d welcome the chance to join the short list of high-profile Jordan brand schools (Florida, Michigan, UNC, etc.).

the juiceman cometh said:
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In all seriousness, I've never seen a UA basketball jersey where their logo didn't look like it was haphazardly slapped on in the most obnoxious possible way.

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Fair, but I don’t mind that uniform itself (same with Wisconsin).
 
#46      
OrangeBlue98
I'm going off of memory here, but I've heard from a few sources that the Jordan football shoes are lousy. If that's true, I'm guessing Bielema might have an issue.
 
#47      
Fighter of the Nightman
In a just world, we'd see this for our upcoming run to the National Championship...

WHITE SCRIPT vs. (11) Xavier or (11) Texas
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ORANGE FLYIN' ILLINI vs. (3) Kentucky
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NAVY FLYIN' ILLINI vs. (2) Tennessee ... a Sweet Sixteen surprise to contrast with their orange!
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NAVY FLYIN' ILLINI vs. (1) Houston ... stick with this as our "Second Weekend uniform," which also contrasts nicely with Houston's red!
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ORANGE 2005 THROWBACK vs. (1) Duke in our first Final Four since 2005!
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WHITE 2005 THROWBACK vs. (1) Florida in the National Championship ... they elect to wear blue, and we go with the OTHER 2005 set for better luck this time around!
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#49      
chibar
I don't hate our current set, but change is always exciting.

If we were to get any updated jerseys next season, would we be hearing about it by now?

Also, the people in here upset with the current set are probably an older demographic than the 18 year olds it really needs to appeal to. I wonder if the kids like them, plus, they are associated with the success of the past few years
 
#50      
Zorak
chibar said:
I don't hate our current set, but change is always exciting.

If we were to get any updated jerseys next season, would we be hearing about it by now?

Also, the people in here upset with the current set are probably an older demographic than the 18 year olds it really needs to appeal to. I wonder if the kids like them, plus, they are associated with the success of the past few years
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New jerseys would be an off-season announcement, I think.
 
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