Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
I think the Grange Era throwbacks are a bit too extreme to just adopt as a jersey, haha ... but I would take a modern take on these in a heartbeat, white pants and all!
Illinois Football Uniforms
I am 100% in the don't care what our jerseys look like until we win category. However, I love this helmet but need to modernize the number. The block I is just so hard to work with.
Do the numbers or Illini with Alma Otter stickers.
Do the numbers or Illini with Alma Otter stickers.
I think the Grange Era throwbacks are a bit too extreme to just adopt as a jersey, haha ... but I would take a modern take on these in a heartbeat, white pants and all!
Just my 2 cents… arched illini with either orange or grey face masks (both work) is number 1. 90s ‘ILLINOIS’ number two. All others are meh. The leather helmet throwback is good for one time only.
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
I’m a big fan of our current unis but they’d look 100x better if the stripes didn’t go over the shoulder. This style of stripe would be a big improvement:
Horizontal striped make me look fatter. And for this reason alone, I will never like any stripes except vertical ones. The 100th anniversary uni's are THE BOMB!!!
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Check the media for the team on X, the players got to see the uniform on a mannequin in one video which might have what you're looking for. Haven't seen a straight up photo yet though.
I was really hoping to buy an orange Feagin jersey for this weekend, but it appears that you can only buy NIL jerseys in blue and the only options in white or orange are Grange and Butkus. I was hoping GameDay spirit might have some but their trailer in the horseshoe didn't have any jerseys at all.
Illinivek23
- Gurnee
For an orange out game?If Illinois wants to guarantee a victory over Kansas on Saturday, they should come out in these uniforms (a 1 game thing).
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Not to open up this wound again, but you mean something like this? ... because I agree 110%:
Especially those blue plants on the road (#BPOTR), baby! In all seriousness, if you gave us those shoulder stripes but combined it with our lack of a V-neck outline (which I have grown to associate with the Beckman and Lovie Eras and therefore kind of hate, lol), I would love it. With that said, I do like the current set.
I said this above, but I could not agree more. It's the single biggest reminder of the Guenther Era for me. This sounds dramatic and silly and I am of course KIND OF joking, but it always seemed sort of insecure to plaster the ILLINOIS (in the most unimaginative and cheap font possible) across our Block I logo. If you are going to use an ORANGE Block I logo, have the swagger that it will properly convey it is talking about Illinois without having to spell it out, haha.
Still waiting for someone talented in graphic design to mock up a Block I logo with this sort of look incorporated...
Remove the wording and numbers and replicate the columns on the bottom to create a Block I (and perhaps simplify it down a touch to be easily replicable), and I think you finally have a non-boring, non-Chief logo for us...
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
^^ Okay, someone who has actual graphic design talent make this look more like a Block I (i.e., less subtle tributes to the pressbox/columns, maybe?) and less like I did it in paint!
Point is, if we are going to go with a(n allegedly boring) block letter as our logo ... and that letter is an inherently vertical uppercase "I" ... why the hell are we not using the design tools right in front of us to incorporate columns or the Red Grange stripes to make it at least SOMEWHAT unique?? I mean, it could be VERY subtle ... but there is no reason we have to settle for just a plan I. It's right there in front of you, DIA/Nike!
Point is, if we are going to go with a(n allegedly boring) block letter as our logo ... and that letter is an inherently vertical uppercase "I" ... why the hell are we not using the design tools right in front of us to incorporate columns or the Red Grange stripes to make it at least SOMEWHAT unique?? I mean, it could be VERY subtle ... but there is no reason we have to settle for just a plan I. It's right there in front of you, DIA/Nike!
Isn’t that what the shield was suppose to do?Not to open up this wound again, but you mean something like this? ... because I agree 110%:
Especially those blue plants on the road (#BPOTR), baby! In all seriousness, if you gave us those shoulder stripes but combined it with our lack of a V-neck outline (which I have grown to associate with the Beckman and Lovie Eras and therefore kind of hate, lol), I would love it. With that said, I do like the current set.
I said this above, but I could not agree more. It's the single biggest reminder of the Guenther Era for me. This sounds dramatic and silly and I am of course KIND OF joking, but it always seemed sort of insecure to plaster the ILLINOIS (in the most unimaginative and cheap font possible) across our Block I logo. If you are going to use an ORANGE Block I logo, have the swagger that it will properly convey it is talking about Illinois without having to spell it out, haha.
Still waiting for someone talented in graphic design to mock up a Block I logo with this sort of look incorporated...
Remove the wording and numbers and replicate the columns on the bottom to create a Block I (and perhaps simplify it down a touch to be easily replicable), and I think you finally have a non-boring, non-Chief logo for us...
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
I mean maybe, but I would argue it failed. It was too bland and minimalistic (JMO), and it was even kind of difficult to tell that there was a Block I in there at first glance if you weren't an Illini fan.
I've said before, but I always thought Nike was on to something with the stripes of the shield. I think the school even realizes that since we use the stripes in a lot of the school's marketing materials for other programs, including basketball. The problem with the shield is they flipped the stripes and have the silly column thing on the top that represents nothing and looks cheesy. Something like this but with the stripes flipped would represent both the Grange stripes and the columns (two by two).
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#1 Nostalgia
#2 It's a clean look
Keep in mind that Georgia and Green Bay's helmets are basically indistinguishable in black and white. No one cares because Georgia is way more successful than we are and they stuck with it for 60 years.
One positive is it reminds me of Robert Holcombe (and second, Kurt Kittner). That alone is worth something. Holcombe took a beating and just kept on trucking.
Mr. Tibbs
- southeast DuPage
They should have kept that logo for the university. But for the sports teams this is and will always be my favorite.
Attachments
I think that is used primarily on the Academic side.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
As others have alluded to, I think this was a non-athletic logo. However, I still think we could come up with a bit more intimidating Block I that uses this as inspiration.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
I'll throw my last minute plug that I know will be unpopular, lol. While I think the all orange looked surprisingly good last year vs. Indiana, count me in the boat that thinks our orange jerseys and white pants would look really slick. Pretty much a current set version of this combo:
redwingillini11
White and Sixth
- North Aurora
I agree that Orange-Orange-White is our best use of white pants. My ideal rotation is:I'll throw my last minute plug that I know will be unpopular, lol. While I think the all orange looked surprisingly good last year vs. Indiana, count me in the boat that thinks our orange jerseys and white pants would look really slick. Pretty much a current set version of this combo:
O-B-O
O-B-B
O-O-W
O-W-O
O-W-B