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4Q_iu said:
As an Alumni who doesn't live close, I expect the ISU Bookstore website to be my first-stop for ANY ISU Gear. Period. They have some stuff; I'm considering buying one of the fleeces but the royal blue looks damn bright on the screen; is it that bright or is it just my computer...

Navy vs. Royal; again, maybe it's just my computer but a lot of the pics I see of the FBall, VB and Womens' soccer; that royal blue is awfully BRIGHT and I don't like it. The royal blue shirts at that yahoosports link weren't too bad, maybe I'll buy one.
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The royal blue on this message board is actually pretty consistent with the actual color (royal blue seems to vary from place to place - the Colts uniforms even did for years with the shade getting lighter and lighter until they fixed it a few years ago). My ISU sweatshirt is royal blue and I guess some might consider it a little bright. I like it myself. Navy blue is basically black.

Royal:
http://images.celebrateexpress.com/mgen/merchandiser/46082.jpg

Navy:
http://www.discountcandleshop.com/images/sans/navyblue.jpg
 

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hammer1 said:
Hers the deal, their is no money to be made by selling ISU gear! If their was, they would sell it! Im not mr. ovious here--come on man- get a clue on this. Who in their right mind wants a ISU football t-shirt?
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Is there anyway to kick hammer out of this forum?...if he wants to keep talking trash about the ISU football team, I'm sure I could have a couple players sit down and have him explain his views to them in person.
 
bent20 said:
The royal blue on this message board is actually pretty consistent with the actual color (royal blue seems to vary from place to place - the Colts uniforms even did for years with the shade getting lighter and lighter until they fixed it a few years ago). My ISU sweatshirt is royal blue and I guess some might consider it a little bright. I like it myself. Navy blue is basically black.

Royal:
http://images.celebrateexpress.com/mgen/merchandiser/46082.jpg


Well, your Navy link isn't black at all; I don't think the NYYankees caps look black, they're navy blue. Again, the school website (on the academic side) listed navy blue and white -- IF we changed, OK -- but when?

Navy:
http://www.discountcandleshop.com/images/sans/navyblue.jpg
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Are the I-Men (am guessing there are also I-Women...) Jackets still Navy Blue?
 
Funny, but I think of the Yankee's navy blue being darker, blacker than Notre Dame or the Pacers, but I guess it's just one's perception.
 
bent20 said:
Funny, but I think of the Yankee's navy blue being darker, blacker than Notre Dame or the Pacers, but I guess it's just one's perception.
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??? If you think the NYYankees navy blue is black!?! What color do you think the Oakland Raiders use w/ their Silver...
 
Is one lighter/bluer than the other, yeah. Dramatically so? No.

raiderslogo.jpg


yankees.jpg
 

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You know, when I looked at those earlier I could see a slight difference. Now I can't at all.
 
There is a difference..not much but enough. I think the point is that ISU shouldn't use a blue that dark, right? If so I agree
 
Right, and my point by putting them side by side is to show how little of a difference there is between black and Navy, but shades do vary.
 

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Thanks Eleven!

OK, OK -- Full Disclosure, I am color-blind; I don't live in a black and white world but I couldn't fly for Army; that being said, there is a HUGE difference between the two shades that bent20 provided (and if anyone CAN'T see the difference, Damn! How color blind are you!??!?!
 
Seriously though, I would argue that there is a bigger difference between navy and royal blue than there is navy and black. To switch from royal to navy would be pretty dramatic, about like wearing Columbia instead of royal blue.
 
bent20 said:
Seriously though, I would argue that there is a bigger difference between navy and royal blue than there is navy and black. To switch from royal to navy would be pretty dramatic, about like wearing Columbia instead of royal blue.
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I guess I'm still stumped on the change from Navy Blue to Columbia / Carolina Blue to now Royal Blue...and at WHO's direction / discretion...

I think when I was there it was split evenly / unevenly between Columbia/Carolina blue and dark royal (not bright), not quite navy blue...

I mean if the ACADEMIC colors of State were Navy Blue and White and the ATHLETIC colors of State were Royal Blue and White, I could understand it (and I'd expect it to be a noted, advertised, well-known fact; as it is at other colleges) but I think is is another example of State being quasi-schizophrenic (again).
 

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bent20 said:
I think you're giving it more thought than anyone else has cared to, and I agree that it would be good to have some consistency. Find a color, have a reason for choosing it and stick with it. Having said that you can always have alternate, secondary colors that you can use in uniforms, just be sure the main color is always there. Like North Carolina's uniforms.

http://accfootballphotos.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/uncuniform08dhelmet.jpg
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Agree -- and when the day comes that I have trouble picking from the MULTITUDE of ISU Gear on the State bookstore site, Universitees, etc, etc; THEN we can worry about a teriary color on State's uniforms.
 
The many colors of blue for the Sycamores....

At one point in recent history, like back in the 1980s and 1990s, the athletic administration allowed each coach to buy the uniforms and equipment without any firm declaration on what shade of blue to use....

so some teams had powder blue....some teams had navy blue....some teams had columbia blue...some teams had north carolina blue.....some teams had dark blue....heck, baseball and football even used red trim to their uniforms....when red wasn't supposed to be part of the color scheme.....

finally....they had a big meeting....among the campus people and the athletic department...and it was decided...one shade of blue for everybody....and no red anywhere....or any other color...to set things off...simply blue and white......they called the shade...sycamore blue......

so there...another indiana state athletics department history lesson.....
 
TJames said:
At one point in recent history, like back in the 1980s and 1990s, the athletic administration allowed each coach to buy the uniforms and equipment without any firm declaration on what shade of blue to use....

so some teams had powder blue....some teams had navy blue....some teams had columbia blue...some teams had north carolina blue.....some teams had dark blue....heck, baseball and football even used red trim to their uniforms....when red wasn't supposed to be part of the color scheme.....

finally....they had a big meeting....among the campus people and the athletic department...and it was decided...one shade of blue for everybody....and no red anywhere....or any other color...to set things off...simply blue and white......they called the shade...sycamore blue......

so there...another indiana state athletics department history lesson.....
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But here's the question, Tom, what shade is Sycamore blue?
 
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