MSU Sports Teams to Undergo Color Change for '05-'06 season
Bozeman, Mont. - Montana State Athletic Director Peter Fields has announced that beginning with the 2005-2006 season, all MSU Sports teams will be donning new uniforms, featuring a much lighter shade of blue than the one fans have become accustomed to.
While the official school colors will remain blue and gold, a much lighter shade of blue, similar to that used by North Carolina, will replace the much darker shade of blue that MSU teams have been using since the late 1990's.
"Since the switch to navy blue was made several years ago, a growing number of our fans have complained that the MSU colors just aren't unique anymore," said Fields. Multiple Division 1 teams, including Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Brigham Young, Navy, and potential Big Sky Conference addition Northern Colorado use virtually identical colors to MSU's current shades of blue and gold. "By making this switch, MSU students, alumni, and fans will be able to have a unique set of colors to call their own," added Fields. "No other Division 1 university consistently uses the combination of light blue and gold that we are going to be using. While UCLA does use a similar combination for their home football uniforms, most of their teams use a darker shade of blue that is signficantly different from what we will be using."
According to Fields, the school has signed an exclusive uniform deal with Nike, who will provide the school with uniforms at a discounted price in exchange for advertising space in Bobcat Stadium and Worthington Arena. Fields indicated that MSU head football coach Mike Kramer is in the process of working with Nike to design MSU's new football uniforms, and that the new uniforms are likely to be similar to the popular design currently used by the University of Oregon football team.
New MSU apparel featuring the new color scheme should be available in the campus bookstore beginning this summer.
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