The 1972 Project - FCS: SEMO Redhawks

[colinturner95]

Just when I think I can get back in to a flow on this thread, I find myself swamped with other things.

 

 

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Football - Every once in a while, the random lists I use for these series give us a little gem. In this particular case, we get in back to back teams, the two teams that play in the "Oldest Rivalry in The South": William & Mary whom we just saw previously and now, the Richmond Spiders. Now the Spiders currently play in the CAA but will be moving to the Patriot League starting next season so I went ahead and used that as their conference since that's likely where they'll be when this is all said and done. Now to the actual design. I wasn't trying to rip off @NH4's design for Richmond, but when they're the only team in the NCAA to have the Spiders' nickname, the low-hanging fruit is hard to ignore. I almost flipped the helmets to navy being the primary, but white seems to have more recent relevance so white remained the primary helmet, with both keeping the Spider on the sides. Jerseys add a subtle spider web to the sleeve caps with the team logo on the sides. I didn't plan on sleeve caps being contrasting but when the web was on red, it just gave off too much Tobey Maguire Spider-Man to me (nothing wrong with that, just felt wrong for a sports team). Pants, I went back and forth on using the stripe the other sports will come to use but it didn't fit for me. So wordmarks on the side of the pant legs. 

 

Hockey - another club team getting the elevation, and unlike W&M, Richmond does not have serviceable club uniforms. Okay, they're not completely awful, but when you're forced to use an academic logo on a sports uniform, already losing points with me. So those uniforms skate away, and now we get something that resembles the Regina Pats, with some added spiders to the shoulders in the Nike corners of the shoulder yoke. I can't really pinpoint the why, but I liked a Rangers' style wordmark for the home and away so that's what they get. Like football's sleeves, contrasting shoulders on the away and alternate uniform. The alternate jersey resurrects the early 2000's spider logo, which I felt was the perfect alternate logo for the front of a jersey. The hem stripe changes slightly and is matched on the socks as well. 

 

Baseball - Ironically, the most traditional of the sports I do for all these teams is surprisingly the most modern. Baseball combines the spider sleeves with the stripe which was something I wanted to do on football but it felt like too much there, but somehow it feels like it works better on baseball. Slightly slanted versions of the wordmarks on the home/away tops. Alt jersey swaps for the forward facing spider. No crazy pants, just a couple belts options for one set of striped pants. Hats are either navy/red or tri-colored with the spider front and center. 

 

Basketball - Basketball in somewhat of a surprise remained possibly the most traditional in a sense. The tops really feature none of the spider effect. Classic style stripes around the rounded neck and arm holes. Arched versions of the wordmarks on the chests of the home and away. Alternate brings in the front spider to the chest, as a spiritual successor to the first time the Spiders tried a red jersey with the logo on the chest. Shorts have the stripes on the hem, and around the bottom. The spider design comes in here as I tried to do a Chicago Bulls style design on the sides of the shorts, with a much simpler stripe set up. Beyond that, a traditional wrap up to a fairly modern take. 

 

In other good news, the website has all the new teams (minus Richmond) updated! Mobile and tablet are still a ways out and I'm still working out some random kinks on the web version on some sizing and alignment issues (mostly on the FCS conference page)  but if you can look past those, you can start mixing and matching uniforms for the 24 teams already done! Since I need to update the links in my signature, you guys can check it out here >>> https://colinturner95.wixstudio.io/the1972project

 

C&C welcome!!! I keep saying it, but I should be able to get back into a roll on these

[colinturner95]

The MLB series is back on its feet, now its 72-FCS's turn:

 

 

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Purple is truly a wonderful color. It would be nice if more sports teams in general would find away to utilize it. Luckily for me and us, Northern Iowa does a pretty good job already. 

 

Football - They've come a long way from their sleeve cap days but the Panthers still lacked something that was truly theirs. Panthers aren't necessarily a unique nickname but I was a big fan of their logo and I developed a pointed shape that took on their logo's shape and formed a nice sleeve hit out of it. By and large the helmets don't change too much. Satin shells in both colors, purple getting the full logo with the black alt getting just the Panther head. Gold and black facemasks add to the possibilities. The base of the jerseys stays pretty close to real life's, just with the new stripe on the sleeve. Pants echo the stripe, just coming up from the bottom of the pant leg. 

 

Hockey - UNI did have a ACHA D3 team, but their last post on social media came in 2015 and it seems as thought that ice has long been melted in Cedar Falls. But now they get a second chance. Rather than lead with the pointy stripe on the sleeves, I went with an adapted full weight version on the traditional spots and the pointed stripe on the front side yoke. It can also be found in its original form on the pants. Socks mirror the jerseys, as usual. The black alternate is something similar to a uniform I did in my Idaho high school hockey series, with the pointed stripe forming a shoulder length stripe. 

 

Baseball - In a similar story to hockey, varsity baseball was discontinued at UNI in 2009 but lived on as a club sport, but they also have gone somewhat silent on social media so they might also have fallen by the wayside. In this case however, the new uniforms adopt the new stripes but eschew the current wordmarks for some past inspiration. The home whites and road purples share a wordmark that combines the baseball team's old wordmark with the new stripes, and the black alternates bring back an old NI interlocking logo. And in another unique baseball team quirk, the stripe runs from the top down due to the potential for knee length pants being worn. 

 

Basketball - The only other current varsity sport at UNI, basketball finishes us off with some elegant but still modern uniforms. Solid color stripes compliment the side-worn Panther stripes on the jersey and shorts. The UNI wordmark can be found on the chest of the home and away uniforms, with the logo being used on the alternate tops. 

 

C&C welcome!

 

[colinturner95]

Preparing for two back to back hurricanes hasn't been the best for getting sports concepts done... 

 

 

 

 

Football - Deion did well to elevate the aesthetic appearances at Jackson State, but now it's time for the Tigers, like the Memphis Tigers in the Project 1.0, to simplify things by a great margin. A very classic style emerges, combining elements from Walter Payton's days with the tail end of Deion's uniform reign, particularly the red uniforms. The stripes change slightly, red is deemphasized and reduced to a trim color, which falls in line with a recent email from the JSU president. For the football uniforms, the stripe is applied to all three parts. The UA Terrafont goes away in favor of a much more classic block font. An updated JSU Tiger logo can be found on the chest above the numbers. The classic JSU logo stays on the sides of the helmets, with another option for the new modern JSU logo serving as a secondary option on both. Now with red being phased out as a uniform color, a question mark arose for what the alternate would be. Well the university website and the university style guide make use of a nice shade of light blue and I felt like that would work and with the red, would set it apart from the bevy of double blue teams we have coming up.

 

Hockey - Another HBCU joining the ranks of imaginary hockey teams. Classic felt appropriate for this venture, which for JSU meant college wordmarks on the chest of the home and away uniforms and tie down collars.  Stripes are right where you'd think you would find them. Modern JSU logo on the shoulders of the home and away tops. Socks match their jerseys, pants carry on the stripes down the sides. Alternate goes light blue with the modern JSU on the chest. Navy and white helmets are interchangeable across the three sets. 

 

Baseball - Baseball undergoes a little bit of change. The V-neck's go away (and re-brand as alternates) for traditional button downs.. The master stripe shrinks down to accommodate baseball tradition, and are joined by single color placket piping. TIGERS wordmark on the home whites, block J on the road navy uniforms. Pants go simple with one white pair with a matching single navy stripe. Light blue alternates bring in a new Tigers script with slightly larger stripes on the sleeves. Headgear options are all-navy or white panel/navy with the block J logo front and center.

 

Basketball - These actually are pretty similar to their current or very recent uniforms. Combining the new master stripe with some additional stripes around the neck and armholes. Master stripe runs up the sides of the jersey and shorts. Tigers wordmark on the home, Jackson State + number sandwich on the road uniforms. The light blue alternates just trade in the wordmarks for the modern JSU logo. 

 

Hopefully the weather won't keep me down any longer! C&C Welcome!

 

 

[colinturner95]

 

 

Football - The rowdy, rowdy Redhawks of Southeast Missouri State. I was angling for something a little more modern or even more winged but I really liked how a classic northwestern stripe worked on their real life helmets, and it looked just as nice doubled up too. No real changes to the helmets, but red returns to the rotation for the first time since 2012. The jerseys receive the doubled up stripe, and the team receives a modern block font. Pants have a matching stripe to the helmets. 

 

Hockey - SEMO seems to have had no ice hockey presence and seemingly a short lived roller hockey experiment which seems to have skated away almost 10 years ago now. The Redhawks' return to skating is very Maple Leafs-esque, with the double stripes on the sleeves and single stripe on the hem. Home/away tops get the full logo, alternate gets just the Redhawk logo. The equipment is all interchangeable, with three options for helmets and two for gloves and pants.

 

Baseball - For baseball, status quo to a degree. I kept the home pinstripes around, with the added stripe to the sleeves. As I came to discover, the team's wordmarks aren't bad, but they don't work as well on jerseys IMO. To that end, a new script is worked out on the home and away tops. And the alternate goes for a simple logo+number action. In addition to the pinstripe pants, a solid white and black option are also in the mix, with a matching stripe down the sides, Two sets of socks, both striped to match whatever hats are being worn that game. 

 

Basketball - Basketball felt like a bit of a challenge. SEMO has been floating between modern uniforms and some throwback inspired uniforms in the last few seasons, and I think my look for them leans more throwback inspired. I felt the same issue with wordmarks on these so I brought in the script wordmarks to the home and away uniforms. Despite my misgivings, the SEMO wordmark takes up space on the black alternates. All three uniforms have the double stripe down the sides and contrasting collar and waistband colors. 

 

C&C welcome!!

[McCall]

1 hour ago, colinturner95 said:

 

 

Football - The rowdy, rowdy Redhawks of Southeast Missouri State. I was angling for something a little more modern or even more winged but I really liked how a classic northwestern stripe worked on their real life helmets, and it looked just as nice doubled up too. No real changes to the helmets, but red returns to the rotation for the first time since 2012. The jerseys receive the doubled up stripe, and the team receives a modern block font. Pants have a matching stripe to the helmets. 

 

Hockey - SEMO seems to have had no ice hockey presence and seemingly a short lived roller hockey experiment which seems to have skated away almost 10 years ago now. The Redhawks' return to skating is very Maple Leafs-esque, with the double stripes on the sleeves and single stripe on the hem. Home/away tops get the full logo, alternate gets just the Redhawk logo. The equipment is all interchangeable, with three options for helmets and two for gloves and pants.

 

Baseball - For baseball, status quo to a degree. I kept the home pinstripes around, with the added stripe to the sleeves. As I came to discover, the team's wordmarks aren't bad, but they don't work as well on jerseys IMO. To that end, a new script is worked out on the home and away tops. And the alternate goes for a simple logo+number action. In addition to the pinstripe pants, a solid white and black option are also in the mix, with a matching stripe down the sides, Two sets of socks, both striped to match whatever hats are being worn that game. 

 

Basketball - Basketball felt like a bit of a challenge. SEMO has been floating between modern uniforms and some throwback inspired uniforms in the last few seasons, and I think my look for them leans more throwback inspired. I felt the same issue with wordmarks on these so I brought in the script wordmarks to the home and away uniforms. Despite my misgivings, the SEMO wordmark takes up space on the black alternates. All three uniforms have the double stripe down the sides and contrasting collar and waistband colors. 

 

C&C welcome!!

1. While nice looking, there's no place for SEMO to even house a hockey team if they wanted to.

2. I literally just used that same font (Barney Script), even angled the same way, to create a retro print that I ordered DTFs of to print basketball jerseys in honor of my Dad for my siblings and myself to wear to the homecoming game next week (he played basketball at SEMO).

 

Nice work.