redwingillini11
White and Sixth
- Batavia
Should just be for 100th anniversary. Perhaps a second game if they are popular.
Illinois Football Uniforms
- Status
TentakilRex
- Land O Insects between Quincy-Macomb-Jacksonville
Who here can analyze this Zapruder film correctly? I am into conspiracies but I suck at predicting thing based on video....
Guess there will be orange....
I had nothing better to do this morning so I went thru this helmet vid because if I was on the media team and editing a video like this, I'd hide at least one teaser to the reveal in the edit. These screenshots are the only frames that looked like potential designs I could pick out. The other flashes seemed to just be flashes of color rather than anything resembling any sort of true design.
I honestly have no idea what they could really be. They don't stick out like any visual I've seen before. They don't look particularly reminiscent of any of our past helmets according to HelmetHistory.com, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything because these could easily be visuals coming from the same era as one of our past helmets. Obviously, the first screenshot is of some sort of "ILL" spell out. The second resembles the letter B, and the last one has a set of stripes on the bottom which stuck out cause outside of the Lovie uniforms, I believe we've had some sort of stripe on the helmet ever since we moved on from leather so it sticks out for a helmet teaser. There was one other screenshot I could've taken, but it was just the same background as the 3rd screenshot but it was just either a 3 or a W flipped on it's side. It looked like writing (like maybe an E in in an autograph). If any old time player of note had a name starting with an E that could be something, but Idk of any personally.
The only other thing that seemed notable was the obvious part, that being the helmets. The interesting thing was that there were 3. Are we getting 3 helmets? Maybe we're overthinking the throwback potential based on the caption and we're just getting a white and blue variation of the. There's a bunch of things it could mean. We don't exactly what they're doing for the 100th Anniversary yet so maybe it's tied to that. It's completely possible we're gonna have 3 new helmets and do 3 eras of helmets (maybe Butkus era, 80s era, and 90s-2000s era). Could even be as simple as they're just going to show the same helmet 3 times lol.
The most important question tho, is regardless of what this is teasing, will it be available in NCAA 25?
I honestly have no idea what they could really be. They don't stick out like any visual I've seen before. They don't look particularly reminiscent of any of our past helmets according to HelmetHistory.com, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything because these could easily be visuals coming from the same era as one of our past helmets. Obviously, the first screenshot is of some sort of "ILL" spell out. The second resembles the letter B, and the last one has a set of stripes on the bottom which stuck out cause outside of the Lovie uniforms, I believe we've had some sort of stripe on the helmet ever since we moved on from leather so it sticks out for a helmet teaser. There was one other screenshot I could've taken, but it was just the same background as the 3rd screenshot but it was just either a 3 or a W flipped on it's side. It looked like writing (like maybe an E in in an autograph). If any old time player of note had a name starting with an E that could be something, but Idk of any personally.
The only other thing that seemed notable was the obvious part, that being the helmets. The interesting thing was that there were 3. Are we getting 3 helmets? Maybe we're overthinking the throwback potential based on the caption and we're just getting a white and blue variation of the. There's a bunch of things it could mean. We don't exactly what they're doing for the 100th Anniversary yet so maybe it's tied to that. It's completely possible we're gonna have 3 new helmets and do 3 eras of helmets (maybe Butkus era, 80s era, and 90s-2000s era). Could even be as simple as they're just going to show the same helmet 3 times lol.
The most important question tho, is regardless of what this is teasing, will it be available in NCAA 25?
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
OT again, but as someone who was born in Peoria (and has most of my extended family in Peoria/Kewanee) but grew up mostly in Iowa City and then now lives in Chicago ... I feel like I offer an interesting blend of perspectives here. This is how I would divide up the state into (too many) regions:
1. Chicago: Yes, the city is indeed as different from the suburbs as the suburbs are from Downstate, period, period, period. They're really just three different things, but go to a grocery store in Logan Square (Chicago), Arlington Heights and Rockford. The cultural feel of the latter two will be much more similar than Chicago itself.
2. Chicago Suburbs: I know there are differences between the regions of the suburbs, but for being so diverse in some ways (e.g., the North Shore vs. Naperville vs. Mount Greenwood or something), I have actually found that there is this sort of uniting identity being from "the suburbs." There are a shockingly high number of cultural traits and attitudes Chicago suburbanites seem to share ... at least enough to make it a cohesive region.
3. Northern Illinois: Roughly the non-Chicagoland part of Illinois north of I-80. I find people north of I-80 tend to have less slightly less of an "Illinoisan" identity than those in Central Illinois. In my experience, people up here rarely have much of an identity that extends beyond their immediate community and are often in a geographic/cultural limbo between areas. Rockford is this weirdly almost-Wisconsin city, the Quad Cities are like Iowa colonies in Illinois, Galena has this feel like it's in Illinois by coincidence, etc. This is the area where I think the Illini have done the most surprisingly poor job of capturing fan interest.
4. Central Illinois: Roughly I-80 to Effingham and across? It's one of those "you know it when you see it" things, I guess! With several mid-sized cities that have a similar cultural feel (Peoria, Bloomington, Champaign, Springfield, etc.), I feel this region is actually pretty cohesive similar to Iowa or neighboring states. The Illini have more or less had this region on lockdown for fan interest, as they should.
5. Metro East: It seems weird to give a region of about 670k people its own category, but having such a relatively large number of Illinoisans 110% culturally connected to St. Louis, MO really does kind of make them unique within the state. I would give Illini fandom here a B- ... while it's inevitable you would get some Mizzou fan interest bleeding over into this area, it is WAY too much. This should have a similar dynamic that Mizzou and KU have in the two-state Kansas City metro, but we obviously fare a lot worse than KU in our version. I get KU is closer to the border, but it still shouldn't be this Mizzou-friendly.
6A. (Generic) Southern Illinois: Roughly Effingham to Benton excluding the Metro East? I get not a lot of people live here, but you really do start to see a big cultural shift. However, in the context of Illini fandom, we still do decently well at keeping our own here!
7B. (TRUE) Southern Illinois: Carbondale and south to the Shawnee National Forest. This might as well be another world, and while I am proud it is in our state and think our state should do a much better job at promoting it as a beautiful and unique area of the state (how is this not a bit better of a tourist destination for out-of-state folks willing to spend money?? Get some wineries in there!), it is so drastically different from every other region. Most fan polls/maps I have seen have this area being dominated by out-of-state teams like Kentucky.
To be even SEMI-OT again, I would say that Illini fandom grades from me would be like this:
1. Chicago: B- ... we could do a lot better, but it is unique among major metros not named New York as far as college sports fandom. We will never get the support the Badgers do in Milwaukee or Michigan/MSU do in Detroit, for example, but we could indeed inch closer to what Georgia gets in Atlanta (i.e., a clear first among equals) if we start winning games.
2. Chicago Suburbs: B? ... I have heard conflicting things from posters here, and I do not have as much knowledge about the suburbs. Similar dynamic to Chicago as far as never being able to truly dominate it, though.
3. Northern Illinois: D ... Plenty of Illini fans, but the drop-off in loyalty compared to Central Illinois is just really sad to see. Wisconsin fans in Rockford and Iowa fans in Moline are depressingly common, perhaps even predominant?
4. Central Illinois: A ... an example of an A+ would be Nebraska's support for the Huskers.
5. Metro East: B- ... given Columbia is just as far away in the other direction on the Missouri side, we simply should have significantly more fans than Mizzou in this region. "St. Louis" has nothing inherently to do with the Missouri Tigers, so this isn't like these folks understandably being Cardinals fans!
6A. (Generic) Southern Illinois: A- ... seems to still be a lot of Illini loyalty here.
6B: (TRUE) Southern Illinois: C ... bad fan support but also so far away from Champaign and so culturally different that it would be difficult to change. However, the Illini should AT LEAST be on equal footing to out-of-state teams, IMO.
Right now, with those grades, I think we have a "pretty big" fan base ... but I think a small enough percent of the whole gang are loyal/engaged when we are not good that it doesn't really protect us RE: conference realignment. HOWEVER, I think an Illini football program that is stringing together 8+ win seasons for a few years in a row significantly improves that report card, and all of a sudden we are every bit as valuable to the powers-that-be as a Wisconsin.
1. Chicago: Yes, the city is indeed as different from the suburbs as the suburbs are from Downstate, period, period, period. They're really just three different things, but go to a grocery store in Logan Square (Chicago), Arlington Heights and Rockford. The cultural feel of the latter two will be much more similar than Chicago itself.
2. Chicago Suburbs: I know there are differences between the regions of the suburbs, but for being so diverse in some ways (e.g., the North Shore vs. Naperville vs. Mount Greenwood or something), I have actually found that there is this sort of uniting identity being from "the suburbs." There are a shockingly high number of cultural traits and attitudes Chicago suburbanites seem to share ... at least enough to make it a cohesive region.
3. Northern Illinois: Roughly the non-Chicagoland part of Illinois north of I-80. I find people north of I-80 tend to have less slightly less of an "Illinoisan" identity than those in Central Illinois. In my experience, people up here rarely have much of an identity that extends beyond their immediate community and are often in a geographic/cultural limbo between areas. Rockford is this weirdly almost-Wisconsin city, the Quad Cities are like Iowa colonies in Illinois, Galena has this feel like it's in Illinois by coincidence, etc. This is the area where I think the Illini have done the most surprisingly poor job of capturing fan interest.
4. Central Illinois: Roughly I-80 to Effingham and across? It's one of those "you know it when you see it" things, I guess! With several mid-sized cities that have a similar cultural feel (Peoria, Bloomington, Champaign, Springfield, etc.), I feel this region is actually pretty cohesive similar to Iowa or neighboring states. The Illini have more or less had this region on lockdown for fan interest, as they should.
5. Metro East: It seems weird to give a region of about 670k people its own category, but having such a relatively large number of Illinoisans 110% culturally connected to St. Louis, MO really does kind of make them unique within the state. I would give Illini fandom here a B- ... while it's inevitable you would get some Mizzou fan interest bleeding over into this area, it is WAY too much. This should have a similar dynamic that Mizzou and KU have in the two-state Kansas City metro, but we obviously fare a lot worse than KU in our version. I get KU is closer to the border, but it still shouldn't be this Mizzou-friendly.
6A. (Generic) Southern Illinois: Roughly Effingham to Benton excluding the Metro East? I get not a lot of people live here, but you really do start to see a big cultural shift. However, in the context of Illini fandom, we still do decently well at keeping our own here!
7B. (TRUE) Southern Illinois: Carbondale and south to the Shawnee National Forest. This might as well be another world, and while I am proud it is in our state and think our state should do a much better job at promoting it as a beautiful and unique area of the state (how is this not a bit better of a tourist destination for out-of-state folks willing to spend money?? Get some wineries in there!), it is so drastically different from every other region. Most fan polls/maps I have seen have this area being dominated by out-of-state teams like Kentucky.
To be even SEMI-OT again, I would say that Illini fandom grades from me would be like this:
1. Chicago: B- ... we could do a lot better, but it is unique among major metros not named New York as far as college sports fandom. We will never get the support the Badgers do in Milwaukee or Michigan/MSU do in Detroit, for example, but we could indeed inch closer to what Georgia gets in Atlanta (i.e., a clear first among equals) if we start winning games.
2. Chicago Suburbs: B? ... I have heard conflicting things from posters here, and I do not have as much knowledge about the suburbs. Similar dynamic to Chicago as far as never being able to truly dominate it, though.
3. Northern Illinois: D ... Plenty of Illini fans, but the drop-off in loyalty compared to Central Illinois is just really sad to see. Wisconsin fans in Rockford and Iowa fans in Moline are depressingly common, perhaps even predominant?
4. Central Illinois: A ... an example of an A+ would be Nebraska's support for the Huskers.
5. Metro East: B- ... given Columbia is just as far away in the other direction on the Missouri side, we simply should have significantly more fans than Mizzou in this region. "St. Louis" has nothing inherently to do with the Missouri Tigers, so this isn't like these folks understandably being Cardinals fans!
6A. (Generic) Southern Illinois: A- ... seems to still be a lot of Illini loyalty here.
6B: (TRUE) Southern Illinois: C ... bad fan support but also so far away from Champaign and so culturally different that it would be difficult to change. However, the Illini should AT LEAST be on equal footing to out-of-state teams, IMO.
Right now, with those grades, I think we have a "pretty big" fan base ... but I think a small enough percent of the whole gang are loyal/engaged when we are not good that it doesn't really protect us RE: conference realignment. HOWEVER, I think an Illini football program that is stringing together 8+ win seasons for a few years in a row significantly improves that report card, and all of a sudden we are every bit as valuable to the powers-that-be as a Wisconsin.
That’s great! Thank you! I’m guessing it’s going to be in College Football 25 which is why they would try to release this information before the game comes out I think a lot of teams are going to have to put out things earlier this year because of the game will most definitely have all of the stuff for the year EA has been so detailed in getting everything!!
OT again, but as someone who was born in Peoria (and has most of my extended family in Peoria/Kewanee) but grew up mostly in Iowa City and then now lives in Chicago ... I feel like I offer an interesting blend of perspectives here. This is how I would divide up the state into (too many) regions:
1. Chicago: Yes, the city is indeed as different from the suburbs as the suburbs are from Downstate, period, period, period. They're really just three different things, but go to a grocery store in Logan Square (Chicago), Arlington Heights and Rockford. The cultural feel of the latter two will be much more similar than Chicago itself.
2. Chicago Suburbs: I know there are differences between the regions of the suburbs, but for being so diverse in some ways (e.g., the North Shore vs. Naperville vs. Mount Greenwood or something), I have actually found that there is this sort of uniting identity being from "the suburbs." There are a shockingly high number of cultural traits and attitudes Chicago suburbanites seem to share ... at least enough to make it a cohesive region.
3. Northern Illinois: Roughly the non-Chicagoland part of Illinois north of I-80. I find people north of I-80 tend to have less slightly less of an "Illinoisan" identity than those in Central Illinois. In my experience, people up here rarely have much of an identity that extends beyond their immediate community and are often in a geographic/cultural limbo between areas. Rockford is this weirdly almost-Wisconsin city, the Quad Cities are like Iowa colonies in Illinois, Galena has this feel like it's in Illinois by coincidence, etc. This is the area where I think the Illini have done the most surprisingly poor job of capturing fan interest.
4. Central Illinois: Roughly I-80 to Effingham and across? It's one of those "you know it when you see it" things, I guess! With several mid-sized cities that have a similar cultural feel (Peoria, Bloomington, Champaign, Springfield, etc.), I feel this region is actually pretty cohesive similar to Iowa or neighboring states. The Illini have more or less had this region on lockdown for fan interest, as they should.
5. Metro East: It seems weird to give a region of about 670k people its own category, but having such a relatively large number of Illinoisans 110% culturally connected to St. Louis, MO really does kind of make them unique within the state. I would give Illini fandom here a B- ... while it's inevitable you would get some Mizzou fan interest bleeding over into this area, it is WAY too much. This should have a similar dynamic that Mizzou and KU have in the two-state Kansas City metro, but we obviously fare a lot worse than KU in our version. I get KU is closer to the border, but it still shouldn't be this Mizzou-friendly.
6A. (Generic) Southern Illinois: Roughly Effingham to Benton excluding the Metro East? I get not a lot of people live here, but you really do start to see a big cultural shift. However, in the context of Illini fandom, we still do decently well at keeping our own here!
7B. (TRUE) Southern Illinois: Carbondale and south to the Shawnee National Forest. This might as well be another world, and while I am proud it is in our state and think our state should do a much better job at promoting it as a beautiful and unique area of the state (how is this not a bit better of a tourist destination for out-of-state folks willing to spend money?? Get some wineries in there!), it is so drastically different from every other region. Most fan polls/maps I have seen have this area being dominated by out-of-state teams like Kentucky.
To be even SEMI-OT again, I would say that Illini fandom grades from me would be like this:
1. Chicago: B- ... we could do a lot better, but it is unique among major metros not named New York as far as college sports fandom. We will never get the support the Badgers do in Milwaukee or Michigan/MSU do in Detroit, for example, but we could indeed inch closer to what Georgia gets in Atlanta (i.e., a clear first among equals) if we start winning games.
2. Chicago Suburbs: B? ... I have heard conflicting things from posters here, and I do not have as much knowledge about the suburbs. Similar dynamic to Chicago as far as never being able to truly dominate it, though.
3. Northern Illinois: D ... Plenty of Illini fans, but the drop-off in loyalty compared to Central Illinois is just really sad to see. Wisconsin fans in Rockford and Iowa fans in Moline are depressingly common, perhaps even predominant?
4. Central Illinois: A ... an example of an A+ would be Nebraska's support for the Huskers.
5. Metro East: B- ... given Columbia is just as far away in the other direction on the Missouri side, we simply should have significantly more fans than Mizzou in this region. "St. Louis" has nothing inherently to do with the Missouri Tigers, so this isn't like these folks understandably being Cardinals fans!
6A. (Generic) Southern Illinois: A- ... seems to still be a lot of Illini loyalty here.
6B: (TRUE) Southern Illinois: C ... bad fan support but also so far away from Champaign and so culturally different that it would be difficult to change. However, the Illini should AT LEAST be on equal footing to out-of-state teams, IMO.
Right now, with those grades, I think we have a "pretty big" fan base ... but I think a small enough percent of the whole gang are loyal/engaged when we are not good that it doesn't really protect us RE: conference realignment. HOWEVER, I think an Illini football program that is stringing together 8+ win seasons for a few years in a row significantly improves that report card, and all of a sudden we are every bit as valuable to the powers-that-be as a Wisconsin.
Rockford and Arlington Heights are in different universes. Would argue that Arlington Heights is more like Chicago(particularly from a geography/political perspective) than Rockford. Rockford is 60+ miles from Arlington Heights, while AH is less than 30 miles from Chicago.
I mean, I'm in Carol Stream now even further west a bit than Schaumburg/AH areas and still don't think we're anything like Rockford. I can walk to all of my favorite restaurants, the police station is down the street, and there's even a corner where homeless people are asking for money every day! Maybe once you hit like, Batavia/Elgin I guess?
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AyoDos11
- Southern Illinois
The Metro East is indeed a very unique place. The majority of people here have a deep connection to a city which is in a state that they have an intense rivalry with, while simultaneously having another intense rivalry with a city in their own state. I can't think of any other situation like it in the US.
I agree with you that there are too many Mizzou fans/not enough passionate U of I fans here as there should be. I think U of I actually advertising and promoting down here would be helpful though. I was just driving through Missouri and Kansas a week ago, and there were multiple KU billboards near KC. I know billboards aren't the best measure of fan support, but it at least let's people know they are in a school's territory. I can't remember the last time I saw an official advertisement from U of I around here.
We are going back to leather helmets to celebrate 100 years.
PizzaHutParkingLot
- Vodice, Croatia
This just made my whole week
These are all upgrades over the current helmets in my opinion. Now let’s get some new basketball uniforms!
Dan
Admin
Illinois Unveils Three Helmets for Memorial Stadium 100th Anniversary Season - University of Illinois Athletics
The helmet designs cover different eras of the Fighting Illini program and will be worn throughout the 2024 season at Memorial Stadium.
fightingillini.com
That arched Illini one should be the new normal
redwingillini11
White and Sixth
- Batavia
OMG hahahahaha yes!!!! IT HAS RETURNED!!!!!
Seriously these all look so good. I know these must just be for this year and Coach wants one standard one helmet look, but we should honestly rotate through these helmets every year like Indiana does. Each one is classic and distinctly Illinois. I am so excited to see them in play.
Seriously these all look so good. I know these must just be for this year and Coach wants one standard one helmet look, but we should honestly rotate through these helmets every year like Indiana does. Each one is classic and distinctly Illinois. I am so excited to see them in play.
Mine too. I just can’t stop smiling.
redwingillini11
White and Sixth
- Batavia
They even picked the correct version of ILLINOIS. These three helmets are the football version of the ‘89 and cursive basketball throwbacks. And the fact they got it so right in football makes me even more excited. Oh my god I can’t ever go back to a time before I saw this tweet, these have to be permanent.
I’m going to be that guy, but the arched ILLINI needs the orange facemask, it’s not the same with the gray.
mattcoldagelli
- Script Illinois Enthusiast
Lots of good detail but there are some who think anything north of Kankakee is Chicago and everything else is IllinoisOT again, but as someone who was born in Peoria (and has most of my extended family in Peoria/Kewanee) but grew up mostly in Iowa City and then now lives in Chicago ... I feel like I offer an interesting blend of perspectives here. This is how I would divide up the state into (too many) regions:
1. Chicago: Yes, the city is indeed as different from the suburbs as the suburbs are from Downstate, period, period, period. They're really just three different things, but go to a grocery store in Logan Square (Chicago), Arlington Heights and Rockford. The cultural feel of the latter two will be much more similar than Chicago itself.
2. Chicago Suburbs: I know there are differences between the regions of the suburbs, but for being so diverse in some ways (e.g., the North Shore vs. Naperville vs. Mount Greenwood or something), I have actually found that there is this sort of uniting identity being from "the suburbs." There are a shockingly high number of cultural traits and attitudes Chicago suburbanites seem to share ... at least enough to make it a cohesive region.
3. Northern Illinois: Roughly the non-Chicagoland part of Illinois north of I-80. I find people north of I-80 tend to have less slightly less of an "Illinoisan" identity than those in Central Illinois. In my experience, people up here rarely have much of an identity that extends beyond their immediate community and are often in a geographic/cultural limbo between areas. Rockford is this weirdly almost-Wisconsin city, the Quad Cities are like Iowa colonies in Illinois, Galena has this feel like it's in Illinois by coincidence, etc. This is the area where I think the Illini have done the most surprisingly poor job of capturing fan interest.
4. Central Illinois: Roughly I-80 to Effingham and across? It's one of those "you know it when you see it" things, I guess! With several mid-sized cities that have a similar cultural feel (Peoria, Bloomington, Champaign, Springfield, etc.), I feel this region is actually pretty cohesive similar to Iowa or neighboring states. The Illini have more or less had this region on lockdown for fan interest, as they should.
5. Metro East: It seems weird to give a region of about 670k people its own category, but having such a relatively large number of Illinoisans 110% culturally connected to St. Louis, MO really does kind of make them unique within the state. I would give Illini fandom here a B- ... while it's inevitable you would get some Mizzou fan interest bleeding over into this area, it is WAY too much. This should have a similar dynamic that Mizzou and KU have in the two-state Kansas City metro, but we obviously fare a lot worse than KU in our version. I get KU is closer to the border, but it still shouldn't be this Mizzou-friendly.
6A. (Generic) Southern Illinois: Roughly Effingham to Benton excluding the Metro East? I get not a lot of people live here, but you really do start to see a big cultural shift. However, in the context of Illini fandom, we still do decently well at keeping our own here!
7B. (TRUE) Southern Illinois: Carbondale and south to the Shawnee National Forest. This might as well be another world, and while I am proud it is in our state and think our state should do a much better job at promoting it as a beautiful and unique area of the state (how is this not a bit better of a tourist destination for out-of-state folks willing to spend money?? Get some wineries in there!), it is so drastically different from every other region. Most fan polls/maps I have seen have this area being dominated by out-of-state teams like Kentucky.
To be even SEMI-OT again, I would say that Illini fandom grades from me would be like this:
1. Chicago: B- ... we could do a lot better, but it is unique among major metros not named New York as far as college sports fandom. We will never get the support the Badgers do in Milwaukee or Michigan/MSU do in Detroit, for example, but we could indeed inch closer to what Georgia gets in Atlanta (i.e., a clear first among equals) if we start winning games.
2. Chicago Suburbs: B? ... I have heard conflicting things from posters here, and I do not have as much knowledge about the suburbs. Similar dynamic to Chicago as far as never being able to truly dominate it, though.
3. Northern Illinois: D ... Plenty of Illini fans, but the drop-off in loyalty compared to Central Illinois is just really sad to see. Wisconsin fans in Rockford and Iowa fans in Moline are depressingly common, perhaps even predominant?
4. Central Illinois: A ... an example of an A+ would be Nebraska's support for the Huskers.
5. Metro East: B- ... given Columbia is just as far away in the other direction on the Missouri side, we simply should have significantly more fans than Mizzou in this region. "St. Louis" has nothing inherently to do with the Missouri Tigers, so this isn't like these folks understandably being Cardinals fans!
6A. (Generic) Southern Illinois: A- ... seems to still be a lot of Illini loyalty here.
6B: (TRUE) Southern Illinois: C ... bad fan support but also so far away from Champaign and so culturally different that it would be difficult to change. However, the Illini should AT LEAST be on equal footing to out-of-state teams, IMO.
Right now, with those grades, I think we have a "pretty big" fan base ... but I think a small enough percent of the whole gang are loyal/engaged when we are not good that it doesn't really protect us RE: conference realignment. HOWEVER, I think an Illini football program that is stringing together 8+ win seasons for a few years in a row significantly improves that report card, and all of a sudden we are every bit as valuable to the powers-that-be as a Wisconsin.
Ah yes!!!! My hopes and dreams of an updated 70s-80s “illini”. Looks better than I would’ve thought it ever could. Early 80s specifically with the gray face mask and the stripes down the middle.
Nice. I also have a special place for the 90s early 2000s Illinois also. JW probably does too. Well done
Nice. I also have a special place for the 90s early 2000s Illinois also. JW probably does too. Well done
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
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- Arlington, Virginia
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