NORTH LEWISBURG — An athletic booster meeting scheduled for 45 minutes lasted two hours after members opened a catalog and discovered that Cardinal red is not one color but a lifestyle conflict.
“If we go too light, we look like a travel ball team from the suburbs,” one parent warned in a room full of Triad gear. “If we go too dark, we look like a funeral.”
A motion to table the decision until someone prints samples failed 6–6, which was interpreted as both a tie and a personal betrayal.
Players said they would wear whatever as long as it arrived before the season on the Brush Lake Road campus, a level of pragmatism adults found unhelpful.