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
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T-shirts a hot sell: Brown says Y students have 'lost at life'
Published: Friday, October 3, 2008
Updated: Friday, October 3, 2008
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Rivalry shirts for Friday’s BYU-USU game sold out in just 11 hours, according to USU Athletics VP Lance Brown. More shirts will be available for the Dec. 6 men’s basketball game between USU and BYU.
17 comments
DUDE!
To all you people on here. PULL YOUR HEAD OUT! BYU fans are horrible, but Aggie fans are 10 times worse.
Dave
What a bunch of losers up at Utah State! I hate BYU as much, if not more that you do, but you are a bunch of losers. This shirt degrading BYU is just saying I need attention. You Logan guys are just looking for something to do because there is nothing to do but eat Aggie ice cream or go down and eat pizza at the factory.
ha ha ha
This shirt is so funny.. but lets put it all in its proper perspective. School spirit is fun. But rmemeber, you are in LOGAN! ha ha ha!
Die-hard
Sister Aggie, I really really hope you aren't trying to speak on behalf of Aggie fans when you say, "BTW we still cheer for BYU football."You would be very very wrong in the statement, and misrepresenting true Aggies everywhere. I hate BYU with a fiery passion, as do quite a good number of people as evidenced by the rapid sale of so many anti-BYU shirts.
Sister Aggie
Amazing...I attended both schools, and graduated from USU after my mission. I received a much better education at USU. Smaller classes, well-rounded faculty, beautiful campus, closer wards, "real" people. I'm not even from Utah, so I could care less about the different cities. I think it is funny the coug fans are so uptight, that they can't even laugh at this. You know it's true! BTW we still cheer for BYU football. Always glad to see the Mormon boys play well.
