Illinois Football Uniforms
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Never white pants. This is my insignificant hill to die on. When you have 2 colors that aren't white you have no need to have half your uniform be white (obviously excluding road jerseys). I've heard people say they think we "look faster" in white pants or that we "look smaller" in orange pants. Even if that were true (which, come on, do you hear how ridiculous that sounds), even better! Let the other teams underestimate our size and speed based on the color of our pants.
In the end it's all just our personal preferences, if I had my druthers I'd want us in O/B/O at home and O/W/B on the road 95% of the time with maybe a cool one off every now and then.
In the end it's all just our personal preferences, if I had my druthers I'd want us in O/B/O at home and O/W/B on the road 95% of the time with maybe a cool one off every now and then.
You do realize that this is a board thing....players don't know about this unless we tell them...
Sorry but we do....same colors...who can be more creative...all Blue....?
And the other is Blue....
IlliniKat91
- Chicago, IL
I'm not the one complaining. Talk to OP. There are only so many combos of orange and navy, and I'm good with the combos that don't involve O-O-W
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
White pants after Labor Day.???
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dgcrow
- Kelso, WA
Could be. Illini pretty much always wore blue shirts at home. Blackman changed them to orange.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
We absolutely look like Syracuse but who cares?
Nebraska looks exactly like Wisconsin. Oklahoma looks exactly like Alabama. Purdue looks like Colorado who looks like Vanderbilt who looks like Army. Notre Dame looks like Navy.
If we stopped looking like Syracuse that means we'd stop looking like Illinois.
The fact is for as long as colored helmets have existed we've had orange helmets except for random alternates from 2012-2020 when that was the passing fad.
And blue has been our base jersey color for as long as that's been a thing except for Bob Blackman's 6-year tenure in the mid 70's.
It's actually pretty well defined in history what Illinois looks like, more so than a lot of other schools, even some we think of as having timelessly iconic uniforms.
Looks like pants from one uniform, jersey from another.
It’s not about the players. It’s about the Force.
I'd be way more concerned if this was true, because it would mean the basketball team was avoiding wearing the blues...to appease a message board?!?
You know coaches are a very superstitious group right? See Coach Bielema. I’m sure coaches and players alike are aware of their record in the blue unis.(and not because they look at message boards)
Oh I know, I was being sarcastic because the post I was responding to suggested these superstitions were only held by fans. Clearly that's not the case, otherwise we'd have seen them sport the blue jersey way more often, because I don't actually think BU takes his cues from us!
See caoch B and his orange Nike shoes for example.
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