whitesxfan2012
Orange & Blue tweety bird
- Louisville, KY
I'm compliant with option 2. :thumb:
The other option (no matter the surrounding circumstances) is inexcusable for a Nike rebrand.
The 2014 Illini Nike Uniforms and Rebrand
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I'm compliant with option 2. :thumb:
The other option (no matter the surrounding circumstances) is inexcusable for a Nike rebrand.
TheFightingestIllini
- Crook County, ILL
The orange helmet and pants look good tonight, even if the team in them aren't playing well. What I do not understand is why the center stripe going down the side of the pants isn't white like the helmet center stripe.
illini1
- Springfield, IL
I've asked multiple people associated with the program the same question and none have responded. The only explanation I can think of why the striping on the orange pants is different is because they are meant to be worn with the white jersey and they wanted the striping to match. The white jersey and orange pants both have navy/orange/navy striping. If that's the case however, they should have navy/orange/navy striping on the helmet. It wouldn't be hard to change the striping on the helmets.
Groundhogday
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Guest
Agree.
Devil is always in the details for a good design. Clearly, this wasn't Nike's best effort. I can live with the stripe inconsistencies.
ijustkrushalot
- Iowa Corridor
I think that was me... and it wasn't rooted in any knowledge of the situation.
That was more stating a personal preference on my part.... I think the oranger uniforms look better (and are probably more comfortable) when we have the potential for late summer scorchers labor day weekend, and by the time long sleeves come out I like the look of the blues more.
illini1
- Springfield, IL
I guess they're wearing the grey uniforms this week against Purdue? Do you have any info on the helmet? Is it grey or silver? Is it chrome, matte or in between?
BZuppke
- Plainfield
I will say the orange helmets looked great to me. The white I really popped under the lights. Prior to the re-brand, you wouldn't be able to read the slant Illinois from any distance other than a close up, but the I does stand out. The shade of orange had a good look to it as well.
NU's uniforms were atrocious in my opinion. The silver looked bad and the matte helmet even worse. I liked the black N on the helmet but the matte finish is a fail I think. JMO.
NU's uniforms were atrocious in my opinion. The silver looked bad and the matte helmet even worse. I liked the black N on the helmet but the matte finish is a fail I think. JMO.
I remember someone saying we would wear grey on homecoming against Minnesota. I hope they don't do it for Purdue because it is supposed to be an "orange out".
dgcrow
- Kelso, WA
Oh, gee. I can hardly wait. Orange and blue are great school colors, yet for Homecoming the Illini apparently are going to wear one of Ohio State's hues. Wow. :tsk:
It's honoring the Galloping Ghost.
dgcrow
- Kelso, WA
Groundhogday
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Guest
Isn't it obvious that the team needs to wear orange for the "orange out" game??
mattcoldagelli
- Script Illinois Enthusiast
The grey will match the seats that aren't oranged out.
Groundhogday
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Guest
Should we call it the orange and grey out? Pretend the empty seats were planned?
mattcoldagelli
- Script Illinois Enthusiast
There you go. Let's start leaning into this, guys!
Dan
Admin
So excited for how our new envelopes & notecards turned out! A lot of hard work & time went into these! #IlliniNation
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The ones with the images superimposed are pretty sweet!
It's actually a capacity crowd, with 30,000 people wearing orange and 30,000 people dressed as empty seats.
ChiefIllitomek
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No wonder Nike added gray to our color palette.
IlliniNation05
- Champaign, IL
I think it looks real good on white/gray backgrounds
No jersey announcement yet? Maybe they are going grey.
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