Illinois Football Uniforms

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redwingillini11

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So it seems that there is a new football uniform set in the works, to be delivered for the 2018 season I believe. The biggest visible change it seems would be the colors of the numbers. Blue numbers on orange, orange numbers on blue, and maybe blue on white. The jersey numbers might also be slanted and closer to the modern Illinois font rather than the current rounder numbers. It seemed that the Shield would be off of the collar. I've also heard that Lovie isn't a huge fan of the shield, and likes to keep it simple with the I.
 
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mattcoldagelli

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redwingillini11 said:
So it seems that there is a new football uniform set in the works, to be delivered for the 2018 season I believe. The biggest visible change it seems would be the colors of the numbers. Blue numbers on orange, orange numbers on blue, and maybe blue on white. The jersey numbers might also be slanted and closer to the modern Illinois font rather than the current rounder numbers. It seemed that the Shield would be off of the collar. I've also heard that Lovie isn't a huge fan of the shield, and likes to keep it simple with the I.
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It's hard without seeing it, but based on your description I am unenthused about each and every one of those changes.
 
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Jeffers_10

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Can't see the image you're referring to. Care to post a screenshot?
 
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Dan

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As some have noticed, slight change to our helmets this year.
https://twitter.com/IlliniFootball/status/877679000759537664

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Kinda reminds me of a soccer ball....
 
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georgeuremovich

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redwingillini11 said:
So it seems that there is a new football uniform set in the works, to be delivered for the 2018 season I believe. The biggest visible change it seems would be the colors of the numbers. Blue numbers on orange, orange numbers on blue, and maybe blue on white. The jersey numbers might also be slanted and closer to the modern Illinois font rather than the current rounder numbers. It seemed that the Shield would be off of the collar. I've also heard that Lovie isn't a huge fan of the shield, and likes to keep it simple with the I.
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I hope not, block numerals would be preferrable.
 
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Illiini

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redwingillini11 said:
I've also heard that Lovie isn't a huge fan of the shield, and likes to keep it simple with the I.
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I can't believe anyone likes the shield...except those who were paid to come up with it.
 
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orangeroses07

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Centralia, IL
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I know i'm beating a dead horse here, but the only thing they need to change is the shade of orange on those helmets. The uniforms are near perfection.
 
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Hollywood

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Chicago
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orangeroses07 said:
I know i'm beating a dead horse here, but the only thing they need to change is the shade of orange on those helmets. The uniforms are near perfection.
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Agreed - the orange helmets are a big fail - go with illini orange, not rust orange, and if you want special event helmet go with chrome illini orange
 
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DeadPanic

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DrewD007 said:
The University is just adopting the block I as it's logo and eliminating the column I logo. Should have no affect on athletics branding.
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Yeah, that announcement has literally nothing to do with Illinois Athletics.
 
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KRSAS

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Charleston, IL
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blmillini

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Bloomington, IL
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KRSAS said:
I always thought our uniforms looked pretty sharp, now the 2003-2005 football uniforms were downright atrocious! The 2008 throwbacks will always be my favorite! Illinois needs to have more throwback games! Anyone else feeling it??????
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I almost always hate the throwbacks and think they have been used far too much by all teams in recent years.
 
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Branson53

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Looks like OBO for this first game. I kind of miss the stripes on the helmet.

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ChiefIllini

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How long is it going to take to get rid of the freakin' metallic orange. Its so ugly and has almost nothing to do with our color scheme. If they want a metallic color so bad brighten it up a bit
 
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Hawk19

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While I think the new FB uniforms look great overall, I'm still not loving the helmet logo situation. The :illinois: logo is a major upgrade over the slant ILLINOIS, but I think there's still room for improvement. Was just playing around today with a couple ideas, and thought it might look cool if the :illinois: was moved to the back of the helmet (with or without the triple stripe), and the sides have the Butkus era number and stars. I also think that if they ever go back to using pride stickers that feathers would be better than the shape of the state of Illinois. Any thoughts? (Excuse the very amateur graphic design work)
 

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Dren1

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Glenview, IL
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Hawk19 said:
While I think the new FB uniforms look great overall, I'm still not loving the helmet logo situation. The :illinois: logo is a major upgrade over the slant ILLINOIS, but I think there's still room for improvement. Was just playing around today with a couple ideas, and thought it might look cool if the :illinois: was moved to the back of the helmet (with or without the triple stripe), and the sides have the Butkus era number and stars. I also think that if they ever go back to using pride stickers that feathers would be better than the shape of the state of Illinois. Any thoughts? (Excuse the very amateur graphic design work)
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I like your design for the most part. IMO, the use of feathers as pride stickers would never fly (see what I did there?) due to the obvious ties with Native American imagery that the university is moving away from.
 
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