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[Hail Our Panthers]

Heard the seats are going to be painted purple in the dome this summer. Hope this one turns out to be true

[panther-state]

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This. Would. Be. AWESOME!!! Hopefully purple and yellow? I guess I could careless as long as they relate to the school colors

[casbern]

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Man.. I hope some of those seats are painted black too... wait.

[achrist70]

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It really doesn't matter what color they are as long as they are filled.

In my opinion a new scoreboard is more needed than painting the seats.

[casbern]

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It really doesn't matter what color they are as long as they are filled.

In my opinion a new scoreboard is more needed than painting the seats.

This...

Maybe the BOR will let us jack ISU's new one... we'll have to construct a huge monstrosity to support it, but man.. will it be big.

[06panther10]

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This has been needed since the day those seats were put in. Purple would look fantastic, and really make the whole place look a lot better.

[JayJ79]

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This. Would. Be. AWESOME!!! Hopefully purple and yellow? I guess I could careless as long as they relate to the school colors

yellow isn't a school color

[UNI83]

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It really doesn't matter what color they are as long as they are filled.

In my opinion a new scoreboard is more needed than painting the seats.

Painting, or changing, the color of seat backs is probably tens of thousands of dollars cheaper than 2 new scoreboards.

It also adds a very nice look to the dome, re: no more red corners on TV broadcasts.

[panther-state]

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yellow isn't a school color

Really gonna be that guy Jay? Really.

[panther-state]

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Does everyone realize how lame and ugly Red, Blue and yellow seats look in the UNI-Dome?? People ask me on tours all the time if there is a reason the seats are that color and not purple and GOLD (better dooshnozzel79)

[UNI83]

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Does everyone realize how lame and ugly Red, Blue and yellow seats look in the UNI-Dome?? People ask me on tours all the time if there is a reason the seats are that color and not purple and GOLD (better dooshnozzel79)

To be fair to JayJ79, I'd prefer to go back to the Old Gold and ditch the yellow....maybe that's just me though.

[UNI83]

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From UNI's trademarking site


However, here are UNI's PMS colors
Purple: PMS 2617
Gold: PMS 124

A manufacturer cannot use only black and gold or red and gold.
These colors represent the University of Iowa or Iowa State University.

The official font of the University of Northern Iowa
Berthold Imago extra bold

Official Marks
The usage of `Northern Iowa' is now acceptable, but only when accompanied by the current UNI logo on the item or garment.

Panther Athletic Logo
The new Panther mascot logo (UNI Panther head) can not be used alone.
The Panther head can appear without the wording above however somewhere on the article/ garment must include:
'University of Northern Iowa' or 'UNI'

[JayJ79]

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the unwritten part of that licensing agreement is that no two items may use the same shade of purple. each one must have a slightly different tint.

[achrist70]

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Painting, or changing, the color of seat backs is probably tens of thousands of dollars cheaper than 2 new scoreboards.

It also adds a very nice look to the dome, re: no more red corners on TV broadcasts.

I'll admit that I don't know the price of scoreboard but the price tag on doing this project is probably a couple 100k

[casbern]

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I'll admit that I don't know the price of scoreboard but the price tag on doing this project is probably a couple 100k

Honestly? So, if we assume that maximum capacity as listed on the UNI-Dome promoter website listed under football as 16,324 is all chairs, which it's probable that they are including standing room. Still then it'd be anywhere from $6.13-$12.26 per seat.

You honestly can't be serious saying that this project is costing a couple 100k. FAU is putting in a new 30x50' video/scoreboard right now that's slated to cost $1.7 million, so even if your estimates were correct at 6-12 per seat it still wouldn't come close to a new scoreboard.