I feel like we could slightly alter the #2 striping for the different colored jerseys/pants ... but I also honestly don't think it matters if we just keep our uniform design and keep that helmet! The helmet itself IS a look ... think Michigan. No one cares or notices that they don't have that winged pattern all over the rest of their uniform. The helmet stands on its own, and I think ours would, too.
This gets to something that I think me, you, Gritty and the other uniform sickos have been hammering on all the way back to the early days of the Shield Wars: consistency is a nice trait but it doesn't need to be a prime directive. Had things gotten sideways at the point that we did the rebrand? Probably...it felt like every sport was completely choosing its own adventure.
Agreed.
Orienting the design around the earhole doesn't make any sense, and every iteration of this idea that followed Bob Blackman's original got even worse.
Definitely. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening.
Yep, we’ll wear O/W/W for some dumb reason.
I think the orientation was meant to look like The Chief’s headdress. A subtle detail. Try looking at an old picture with that in mind, maybe you’ll see it
But...the Chief's headdress extends beyond the immediate vicinity of his ears.
If I were king I'd probably get rid of the stripes on the pants but keep the navy blue block I for grins. And are numbers on the sleeves really necessary? But as long as The Illini do well, I'm happy.But...the Chief's headdress extends beyond the immediate vicinity of his ears.
The decal was placed there to make room for the stripes that were meant to invoke Blackman's Dartmouth teams
Then Gary Moeller came, ditched the stripes and......just left the decal in this bizarrely low placement with nothing above to balance it? Why?
The decal needs to be placed higher. And it is on the revised version we wore on Saturday
The old orientation was an error that this version has corrected.
I’d ditch the stripe on the shoulders WAY before the stripes on the pants. No stripes on the pants slides back into our unfortunate and hideous minimalist look we tried under Lovie … it looked like we were just chasing the newest trend, and we were. The stripes at least call back to uniforms we wore spanning three different decades.
See the 47-56 logo and instead of ‘Illinois’ put ‘Illini’.But...the Chief's headdress extends beyond the immediate vicinity of his ears.
The decal was placed there to make room for the stripes that were meant to invoke Blackman's Dartmouth teams
Then Gary Moeller came, ditched the stripes and......just left the decal in this bizarrely low placement with nothing above to balance it? Why?
The decal needs to be placed higher. And it is on the revised version we wore on Saturday
The old orientation was an error that this version has corrected.
I remember we also used an orange facemask with the arched ILLINI helmets, maybe in '83. I remember a sports illustrated (?) Rose Bowl preview of us with a fantastic photo of our massive O-Line lined up and the orange facemasks looked so hard. Also remember the helmet stickers were The Chief. David Wiliams' helmet was practically covered with Chief helmet stickers.
