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I think this is another case where the fanbase is being too hard on itself. Watching most of the games on TV, the crowd looks plenty gold to me, and a lot of the fans not wearing gold are wearing blue Marquette gear. Its not like at some places (UW, UNC) where there is only one school color.I mean, when I watch a Syracuse game, I don't see much more orange than I see gold at the BC.
The Big East has a serious color problem. GT, gray, C, black and white, SH, blue, V, Blue, P, brown and ?, B, dark blue, DP, blue, X, black and gray.So the only teams with color are MU and St.J. No more Orange, or Rutgers Red, not even a green. These schools need to add some color, the BE brand is drab.
The baby blue also works well, but would probably require a shirt giveaway (would MU be willing to hand out 16,000 shirts for arriving fans?) and making sure that Wojo knows we call it "Valour Blue" so he can see past any UNC similarities
For starters, I wish Marquette would offer more selections of gold gear. Go to the spirit shop and 90+% of the items are navy. I have a plethora of Marquette gear as I make an annual pilgrimage to the spirit shop to outfit the whole family in new gear every season (especially now that the online site sucks) and most of the nike jumpman or performance stuff is navy or valour blue. I have some gold cotton t's and longsleeves but all the performance gear is blue other than the gold shooting shirt they rocked a few years back. Don't even get me started about the gray warmups this year. So bland and gray is not even a secondary school color.
Not sure how wearing one color shirt or another color shirt would inform whether one is a "true fan" or not. Seriously, that's just a unnatural carnal knowledgeing stupid notion.