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<blockquote data-quote="Frank" data-source="post: 1800935" data-attributes="member: 748262"><p>Awesome facility, and great that we are back to having a competitive leg up in the facilities department again. It was needed. My only nitpick is also somewhat general to marketing/branding and college sports: the timing of a facility upgrade like this with the release of a newly branded color orange. I've seen this in multiple different contexts across official Illinois materials lately: the old redder orange mixed with the new orange (on the equipment, in the screenshot example), and even some seemingly different shades now and then. (That, plus the clash between the edgy, ultra-modern slant font/graphics with the new retro, bubbly font and social media graphics.) For having an awesome, brand-spanking-new facility and W after W for this Athletic Dept, the graphics is the one thing that looks a bit haphazard. It seems like we've been operating on two parallel courses for several years now (see: the basketball jerseys), with both being implemented simultaneously in different areas. This absolutely should be lower on the list of important to-dos when resurrecting an athletics program, but hopefully JW&Co can iron out these kinks in the coming years and erase some of the visual chaos / <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤮" title="Face vomiting :face_vomiting:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f92e.png" data-shortname=":face_vomiting:" /> that was left over from the Thomas era.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]20553[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frank, post: 1800935, member: 748262"] Awesome facility, and great that we are back to having a competitive leg up in the facilities department again. It was needed. My only nitpick is also somewhat general to marketing/branding and college sports: the timing of a facility upgrade like this with the release of a newly branded color orange. I've seen this in multiple different contexts across official Illinois materials lately: the old redder orange mixed with the new orange (on the equipment, in the screenshot example), and even some seemingly different shades now and then. (That, plus the clash between the edgy, ultra-modern slant font/graphics with the new retro, bubbly font and social media graphics.) For having an awesome, brand-spanking-new facility and W after W for this Athletic Dept, the graphics is the one thing that looks a bit haphazard. It seems like we've been operating on two parallel courses for several years now (see: the basketball jerseys), with both being implemented simultaneously in different areas. This absolutely should be lower on the list of important to-dos when resurrecting an athletics program, but hopefully JW&Co can iron out these kinks in the coming years and erase some of the visual chaos / 🤮 that was left over from the Thomas era. [ATTACH type="full"]20553[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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