Oh never mind I just read the Merril Bateman thing about it being the darkest

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Oct 27, 2024
7:11:48pm

Polecat Truly Addicted User

Oh never mind I just read the Merril Bateman thing about it being the darkest

shade of royal blue they could find. This whole time I thought CB made up the dark shade part. Wild .

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Polecat

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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

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

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The older version of royal blue uniforms and gear started looking out of date

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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