T-shirts a hot sell: Brown says Y students have ‘lost at life’
Students that have taken a stroll through the USU campus this week have probably seen at least several people wearing shirts with a modified BYU logo on front that reads, “yBu” to go along with the back of the shirt that says, “Win or Lose, you still live in Provo.”
Those who haven’t bought a shirt yet may be waiting a while to purchase one of these shirts, said ASUSU Athletics VP Lance Brown.
ASUSU had 500 rivalry shirts printed to be available for purchase this week at the ASUSU information desk in the TSC.
“We got them on Friday, started selling them by Monday and by Tuesday morning we’d already sold out of the 500,” Brown said.
After selling out of the first order of shirts, Brown said he put in an emergency order to the printing shop that had supplied the first batch and asked for another 500 T-shirts to be made. That second order arrived Thursday at approximately 9 a.m., and the shirts were back on sale about 30 minutes after that.
“By 1:30 the other 500 were gone,” Brown said. “We’d sold out.”
Brown estimated the total amount of time the shirts were available for sale was just under 11 hours.
Three weeks ago, ASUSU made similar rivalry shirts themed for the football game against the University of Utah. Brown said that of the 250 shirts made for the Utah game, all but 20 or so were sold during the week leading up to the game.
When asked to speculate as to why so many more shirts bashing on BYU were sold, Brown was blunt.
“BYU has this aura about it that a lot of people don’t appreciate,” he said. “Some people say that BYU fans are a little more stuck-up or self-righteous.”
Brown said he hopes the response to the T-shirts will generate a different kind of attitude among the USU student body in their support for the football team.
“I’m kind of glad it’s taken off so much, because hopefully it will really just generate win-or-lose kinds of attitudes,” Brown said. “We may lose the game, but really that doesn’t matter to us because we really still think you lost at life by moving to Provo.”
For those hoping to still purchase one of the rivalry shirts, Brown said another batch of the same shirts will be ordered and available in the days leading up to Dec. 6, when USU plays BYU in men’s basketball.
–matt.sonn@aggiemail.usu.edu