South Florida makes purple homecoming shirts; homecoming game is against East Carolina
While purple may be an approved accent color for South Florida, it wasn't a good choice for the school's 2014 homecoming shirts.
Homecoming is this week for the Bulls and purple shirts promoting the week's activities were printed. There's just one problem. The opponent in Saturday's homecoming game is East Carolina, a team whose primary colors are purple and gold.
“It’s a student committee,” USF Center for Student Involvement Director Monica Miranda told the USF Oracle about who made the decision for the shirts. “They didn’t realize purple was the color of the opposing school.”
Oops. Its the teams' first meeting as members of the American Athletic Conference. East Carolina was a member of Conference USA in 2013.
Because of the mixup, students are now being encouraged not to wear the shirts to the game. According to the Oracle, 1,200 shirts were distributed and the color conflict was noticed Friday after 200 were given out. A replacement order of green shirts was made and received Tuesday.
Now the school has to figure out what to do with the remaining purple shirts that haven't been given out.
“It is Homecoming, come on; we should root for the right team,” sophomore band member Claudia Garrett told the Oracle. “Next time, we should look at what team we’re playing.”
ECU is a 15-point favorite. The game kicks off at 7 p.m. ET Saturday.
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