Illinois Football Uniforms

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Second and Chalmers
jmilt7 said:
How the term became linked to native american tribe is open to interpretation.
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The word "Illinois" is itself derived from Native American sources.

As are the names of basically everything in the Midwest.

That's where this stuff really starts to break down, the history is what it is and should be remembered, but Native American language and culture has left an indelible mark on our own. Nobody would say they want to erase that, right?

To say that you don't want a non-NA person to dress up as one, that's a line that makes sense and that I can understand, even if a reasonable person may disagree. Caricatures as logos, I can also see on the same basis. But at a certain point you pull the thread far enough and more than you bargained for starts to fall apart.
 
#278      
wILL-INI
Im meh on them. The numbers are a little too big. But I like how clean they are. Ill always miss the old helmets with just the O.
Definitly on trend with ours in going simple and i think, trying to be more classic. We'll see if they stick around long enough to be.
 
#279      
Illinnoying Orange
Illini_1979 said:
So, the Ducks released their new uniforms today. As we all know, they get the best of Nike's efforts. This year they are designed "...with an eye toward traditional school colors and clean, professional designs."

https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2018/08/oregon_ducks_unveil_new_footba.html

https://goducks.com/news/2018/8/15/oregon-football-2-0.aspx

Any thoughts in comparison to our beloved?
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Those are freakin' hideous ... Oregon's "trendy" uniform combos jumped the shark a few years ago for me
 
#280      
Second and Chalmers
Illini_1979 said:
So, the Ducks released their new uniforms today. As we all know, they get the best of Nike's efforts. This year they are designed "...with an eye toward traditional school colors and clean, professional designs."

https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2018/08/oregon_ducks_unveil_new_footba.html

https://goducks.com/news/2018/8/15/oregon-football-2-0.aspx

Any thoughts in comparison to our beloved?
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Oregon used to be wearing jeans and sneakers with a sport coat in 1996, now they're still wearing jeans and sneakers with a sport coat and it's 2010.

This is the same stuff they've been doing for years, and it's a fine look, but by now it's what absolutely everyone else on earth is doing.

Look elsewhere for the next evolution in football uniform design. It could be us!

https://www.illinoisloyalty.com/Forum/threads/illinois-football-uniforms.24442/page-10#post-1403763
 
#281      
ILL_INI
Selfcon4 said:
100 times better than ours
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Eh, maybe ten times better. Jerseys remind me of a web page and the helmet feathers are more reminiscent of a native American headdress than duck feathers. Put a block I on that and the Illini are banned.
 
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wILL-INI
#286      
KrushCow31
wILL-INI said:
Nothing like taking one of the most iconic uniforms, not wear it at one of your more notable games, and then take a steaming dump on it... But hey, 'croots will thing its Fire Emoji and you'll get all the retweets. < uniform designers mantra
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Well they wear a dumb uniform at every Shamrock series. It's like the "fun" game where they wear something other than the usual blue/white/gold/green. This one is just a particularly terrible one.

2017: https://www.sbnation.com/college-fo...rnate-uniform-navy-knute-rockne-shoes-helmets
2016: https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/notre-dame/notre-dame-unveils-2016-shamrock-series-uniforms
2015: https://gameday.nd.edu/news/shamrock-series-uniforms-unveiled/
2014: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&sou...aw3DPO9JlOKHpIvTNABir-W2&ust=1534624691555516
 
#289      
Hoppy2105
Can they just trim off the orange border on the decal?
 
#290      
Second and Chalmers
Hoppy2105 said:
Can they just trim off the orange border on the decal?
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The rebrand-correct thing to do would be to make it blue. The one-color block I doesn't remove the outer border, it just makes the whole thing the same color.

But the real right answer is white; the real-real right answer is white and rotate the I properly, if you have to shrink the decal to do so, so be it; the real-real-real answer is to ditch the block I for the shield; and the REAL real-real-real answer is to do this: https://www.illinoisloyalty.com/Forum/threads/illinois-football-uniforms.24442/page-10#post-1403763
 
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#291      
wILL-INI
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Can I just plug this for a second? ... Correct block I , and the white facemask back. Becks was an idiot for changing the facemask in the first place. Its the last of his terrible lasagna stained legacy.
 
#296      
krush02
I love the Oregon helmets with the wings and the O on the back. We should try putting the block I on the back. Sidesteps the whole angle issue.

Also sign me up for team orange mirror.
 
#297      
ChiefIllini
krush02 said:
Also sign me up for team orange mirror.
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Orange mirror would be amazing given two things:1) We wear them only once or twice a season and 2) The orange is the same as the jersey. None of that burnt orange the metallic helmets were.
 
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Second and Chalmers
ChiefIllini said:
We wear them only once or twice a season
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I'll take what I can get, but the central premise of my idea is that the Oregon paradigm of remixing all the elements of the uniform every week has become super played out. Someone is going to come along and transcend that concept in a way that's cool and forward-looking rather than cranky and backward looking.
 
#299      
Hoppy2105
I’m on board with the metallic helmets all the way. Full season.

Let’s get this thing going harder than #Teamshield or the Keatts Hype Train!

(Would we have any alternate colors? Basically, would we have a blue version as well as the orange?)
 
#300      
Second and Chalmers
Hoppy2105 said:
(Would we have any alternate colors? Basically, would we have a blue version as well as the orange?)
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For the helmets? No. The idea is that the orange mirror becomes a representative icon in the same way the Michigan helmet is, or the Indiana basketball clown pants or whatever.

The insight behind the Oregon concept comes from Nike's expertise in shoes, where the fundamental design is in the pattern, and then you can break it down into all sorts of different colorways. You can have the classic all-white Air Force One, or you can have some special edition ostrich leather version in collaboration with some designer, or tye-dye or whatever. Bringing that concept to football uniforms was damn cool in 2006.

But as the years go by it starts to fall apart when first of all you're limited by your school colors in a way you aren't with sneakers. Those Oregon uniforms would probably look pretty cool in blue and gold or red and white or whatever, but that just doesn't work. And then when you're constantly switching up the template, nothing has the time and the breathing space to become a classic icon the way Air Force Ones or Adidas Superstars or various Air Jordans are.

So you wind up in a very limited palate just doing new for new's sake and it leads you into ridiculous places that are just ugly and trying too hard, and the novelty of being the new recruit or the new freshman class that gets to lace up the fresh new gear has completely worn off. No one is excited by this stuff anymore.

Like honestly, what on earth is this?

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That isn't cool. At all. That just glows with effort.

I might be way off with my specific idea, but I'm certain that the next great innovation that gets the young people excited will leave the something-new-every-week "uni swag" behind.
 
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