The new basketball uniforms

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Ransom Stoddard

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GortTheRobot said:
Yes, with the right font, that is the best look. Of course, a new mascot would be great too.
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nah. IU won how many championships without a mascot? And still has a massive fan base and following without a mascot?

Just win, no one will care that there isn't a furry with a t-shirt cannon on the sidelines.
 
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Second and Chalmers

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NeaforThree said:
Lol I agree with you but I always think its funny how people coincidentally always pine for the 89 and 05 uniform look and how those were probably the two best Illini teams ever. Sometimes I wonder if we had won the national championship recently in the zig zag uniforms if people would clamor for that uniform in 10 years.

Just win baby.
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Yeah, there's no coincidence to that at all. The New England Patriots unis are the most dull early 00's design ever, but they just look like dynastic excellence now. If Tom Brady had never arrived there is zero question they would have gone back to their awesome 80's era uniforms at some point in the last decade.

But I think there are some elements of genuinely good design in those throwbacks that you ought to work with.

Words above and below the numbers always looks good, IMO. And it allows you to use "Fighting Illini" which is always good. The pieces start to come together.
 
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NeaforThree

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Second and Chalmers said:
Yeah, there's no coincidence to that at all. The New England Patriots unis are the most dull early 00's design ever, but they just look like dynastic excellence now. If Tom Brady had never arrived there is zero question they would have gone back to their awesome 80's era uniforms at some point in the last decade.

But I think there are some elements of genuinely good design in those throwbacks that you ought to work with.

Words above and below the numbers always looks good, IMO. And it allows you to use "Fighting Illini" which is always good. The pieces start to come together.
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Agreed. I think the Fighting Illini throwbacks are the best design we got. Incorporate that into maybe a modern design and we've struck gold.
 
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wILL-INI

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Here is a quickie of that idea... which is meh. Give me the REAL throwback over these.
 
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Fighter of the Nightman

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I actually didn't mind the zig zags (I'm not the type who is obsessed with the Chief, but I appreciate a slight nod to his tradition), but I would be all in favor of a "throwback update." The throwback home jerseys are awesome; just make those our home jerseys. We can be "flashier" on the road, but in Champaign we should honor our great tradition.
 
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mattcoldagelli

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wILL-INI said:
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Here is a quickie of that idea... which is meh. Give me the REAL throwback over these.
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Let's have both these AND the '89 throwbacks. They are different all the way down to the colors.

The font is growing on me (more so for numbers than letters, but I'm blaming part of that on the abomination that was the two-toned lettering). Let's get consistent.

And oh yeah, more Shield.

#TeamShieldNeverDies
 
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haasi

haasi
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wILL-INI said:
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Here is a quickie of that idea... which is meh. Give me the REAL throwback over these.
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These are definitely an improvement over the current, but I agree - give me a classic. ILLINOIS in a classic font on the aways- blue or orange primary color scheme with white and other of blue/orange secondary. And FIGHTING ILLINI in home whites- same font. Then let’s kick some !!!


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Second and Chalmers

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mattcoldagelli said:
#TeamShieldNeverDies
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Truth.

wILL-INI said:
Sadly it pained me to make. I made a video to describe my feelings on this dumb typeface.
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It's not the greatest. But if you want to change it, you need to change it campus-wide. Willy-nilly ad hoc messing with the branding standards for different sports would defeat the fundamentally sound purpose of the rebrand.

Also, for all you lovers of our white Flyin' Illini throwbacks (which are great, no argument there), let us not be blind to the modernization that turned this:

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Into this:

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haasi

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The throwbacks are a really nice update of the original. Well done Nike.


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Franklin Delano Bluth

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I'd like to see the "Fighting / # / Illini" layout become a permanent template for bball moving forward, and even though I'm not in love with the font, if thats what our current font looks like, we should roll with it until it is changed across all sports.

I'd also like to see of the forgotten throwbacks get revived once in a while. The ones hanging in the new Bball HOF would be a great place to start. It would be awesome to see the 79 Cursive Illinois jerseys for a couple of games, or even those 1930 ones (would probably look similar to the Pacers wearing the Hickory Hoosiers unis)
 
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haasi

haasi
New York
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TownieMatt said:
Looks a lot like the jerseys I mocked up a year ago...
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IMO the ones you mocked up are pretty close to the best possible version we’ll get with the current font and branding scheme


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wILL-INI

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While digging for my template ,I stumbled across this one I mocked up for our previous branding. Seems like an appropriate place to post it. While we're dreaming and all.
 
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haasi

haasi
New York
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Also not bad. Don’t love the number font or the back design but otherwise pretty good. How hard is it to design a nice, simple, not overdone Jersey?


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wILL-INI

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haasi said:
Also not bad. Don’t love the number font or the back design but otherwise pretty good. How hard is it to design a nice, simple, not overdone Jersey?
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A professional, degreed graphic designer this font is trash. But as an illini fan who's formative years were in 2004-2005, they are the most beautiful thing on this planet.

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TownieMatt

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In making a few of these mock-ups, the consensus seems to be that fans want the split "Fighting" and "Illini" around the number on the front to be our signature jersey element. Doing that while incorporating a more modern font and our current color palette would be a big hit with fans. Plus you could still have the throwback '89 jerseys with the original font, colors, and striped trim.

Make it happen DIA.
 
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georgeuremovich

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TownieMatt said:
In making a few of these mock-ups, the consensus seems to be that fans want the split "Fighting" and "Illini" around the number on the front to be our signature jersey element. Doing that while incorporating a more modern font and our current color palette would be a big hit with fans. Plus you could still have the throwback '89 jerseys with the original font, colors, and striped trim.

Make it happen DIA.
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Not sure of a consensus. I see quite a few who prefer block "ILLINOIS" with "FIGHTING ILLINI" as an alternate. Hopefully, whatever change takes place, I hope that it surpasses the last rebrand. Maybe the numeral font will change for football as well, back to a block font.
 
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mattcoldagelli

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wILL-INI said:
A professional, degreed graphic designer this font is trash. But as an illini fan who's formative years were in 2004-2005, they are the most beautiful thing on this planet.

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It's so bad, though. My god, look at that 4.
 
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