On St. Patrick's Day, today is the day to wear green. But on a daily basis, CSUMB will always be green to me. Even though today their colors resemble that of the St. Louis Rams.
Out of curiosity I asked a long time university employee about this color change and he said one summer the administration decided to change the colors. Apparently this happened without any student or alumni input. (So what else is new?)
As one who is one of original pioneer students, it is permanently embedded in my mind that CSUMB's colors are green and gold. I have watched every single season of basketball since its inception in 1996. There were years when the only time I could see them was on the road because I lived nowhere near CSUMB. But I made a point of seeing at least one game every season.
As one can see, it is very much inbeeded in my mind to pull for the team in green and opposing other teams that sometimes wear blue. Today the sports world at CSUMB is flipped upside down. Whenever a visiting team that wears green like Cal Poly Pomona or Humboldt State comes to town, I find I have to remind myself they are NOT my team. This color disconnect has felt strange. To imagine what goes through my mind, just imagine if one day the San Francisco Giants colors were blue, and the L.A. Dodgers colors were orange and black. Giving up pulling for a team in green and suddenly pulling for another set of colors is like switchng from left handed to right handed.
Originally, back in 1994-5, the original concept was that the school colors be the colors that appear on CSU Monterey Bay Seal.. so those colors would have been the green, gold, as well as teal and red (or whatever the color of the dot is lol).. Apparently as time passed, so did this notion.. and the colors (at least for the sports teams) evolved as such.
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