Wait I thought DSORB was the old pre-1999 color. Now are we saying 1999 and

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Oct 27, 2024
7:08:41pm

Polecat Truly Addicted User

after is DSORB and not navy? With royal being the current lighter blue color used. Too many names to keep track of. The 1999 switch was definitely to navy blue btw.

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The older version of royal blue uniforms and gear started looking out of date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

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