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Oct 27, 2024
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Ski-U-Mah
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Once they switched to navy blue, people started wearing much more BYU gear.
I was there during the switch. No one wore royal.
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Whoever decided back in the day that DSORB was better than royal blue? Royal
Hoopster
Oct 27, 6:01pm
You can blame Nike for that one.
cvd6262
Oct 27, 6:02pm
Brain fart or just wanted to sell a new color to everyone with Royal gear.
Hoopster
Oct 27, 6:05pm
No one wore Royal back in the day. Stadium looked like a bag of Skittles.
cosmette
Oct 27, 6:09pm
Skittles still went way into the DSORB era
TheHop
Oct 27, 7:17pm
Yes, it did. But wearing school colors made massive progress with Navy.
cosmette
Oct 27, 7:57pm
Fashion in the late 1990s moved away from bright colors, and khaki was popular,
cvd6262
Oct 27, 6:24pm
we also did kinda need a rebrand at that point, but let's bury it now. RB all the time.
dryflyelk
Oct 27, 6:10pm
Was it Pres. Samuelson. He believed more people would wear Navy and tan gear
HenderCoug
Oct 27, 6:21pm
They did. At the time.
cosmette
Oct 27, 6:22pm
Except it was during President Bateman's tenure.
cvd6262
Oct 27, 6:26pm
I blamed Gary Crowton, but it seems a marketing manager kind of thing.
Florwood
Oct 27, 6:27pm
It came out under Lavell
Blue Ghost
Oct 27, 6:56pm
Back then, no one would buy/wear royal. In the bookstore they would have
CascadeBYUFan
Oct 27, 6:34pm
Sure, ignore the effect of the 5 dollar Game Shirt.... It wasn't until that
Blue Ghost
Oct 27, 7:00pm
Nah, much much bigger issue that that. I know people who worked at the bookstore
CascadeBYUFan
Oct 27, 7:06pm
Once they switched to navy blue, people started wearing much more BYU gear.
Ski-U-Mah
Oct 27, 6:50pm
We fans fought it and the BYU Administration ignored and dismissed us.
Blue Ghost
Oct 27, 6:56pm
The older version of royal blue uniforms and gear started looking out of date
Disco Lemonade
Oct 27, 6:58pm
It was President Bateman after a trip to Alabama and seeing all the crimson
beefytee
Oct 27, 7:03pm
Wait I thought DSORB was the old pre-1999 color. Now are we saying 1999 and
Polecat
Oct 27, 7:08pm
Dark Shade of Royal Blue is how BYU referred to the new Navy Blue at the time.
Blue Ghost
Oct 27, 7:10pm
Oh never mind I just read the Merril Bateman thing about it being the darkest
Polecat
Oct 27, 7:11pm
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