Illinois Football Uniforms

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illini0440
Basketball Logo GIF by Lumi
 
#82      
altgeld88
This photo was in an X post on the 2026 Illini Football thread this morning as a tribute to Mikey Dudek. I'm pasting it here simply to demonstrate what a hot mess our font and color scheme was before the new unis. I realize people rag on the present font (a font that I like) but what we enjoy now is orders of magnitude better than this hot mess. It's like a uni mad lib.

Look at that helmet color.

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#83      
illinoistradition
altgeld88 said:
This photo was in an X post on the 2026 Illini Football thread this morning as a tribute to Mikey Dudek. I'm pasting it here simply to demonstrate what a hot mess our font and color scheme was before the new unis. I realize people rag on the present font (a font that I like) but what we enjoy now is orders of magnitude better than this hot mess. It's like a uni mad lib.

Look at that helmet color.

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Seriously. In what world does that helmet color even come close to our color scheme? Those jerseys then matched our lack of success.
 
#84      
altgeld88
illinoistradition said:
Seriously. In what world does that helmet color even come close to our color scheme? Those jerseys then matched our lack of success.
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This stuff is much more than simply cosmetic. It was indicative of the general disarray in our program from Beckman through Lovie. I'm reminded of John Madden; the guy has a popular, and completely unfounded, image as a lovable goof. In fact he was maniacally attentive to detail, all the way down to suspecting the work ethic of any player who failed to polish his dress shoes, which is why he won Super Bowls and is a HOF coach.

(And, yes, I realize that Lovie recruited some excellent talent, particularly some diamonds in the rough; however, he was largely retired-in-place.)
 
#85      
Birdus
altgeld88 said:
This stuff is much more than simply cosmetic. It was indicative of the general disarray in our program from Beckman through Lovie. I'm reminded of John Madden; the guy has a popular, and completely unfounded, image as a lovable goof. In fact he was maniacally attentive to detail, all the way down to suspecting the work ethic of any player who failed to polish his dress shoes, which is why he won Super Bowls and is a HOF coach.

(And, yes, I realize that Lovie recruited some excellent talent, particularly some diamonds in the rough; however, he was largely retired-in-place.)
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A very hot-mess it indeed was
 
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