Authentic game used Mustang jerseys on ebay

[South Bay Mustang]

I'm assuming the NCAA requires the athletes to buy them back at cost? How much did you have to pay for something you sweated blood in?

[SMU Football Blog]

Yes, SMU is very stingy when it comes to merchandising outside of the SMU stores on campus.

I am going to level with you.

This ain't half as true as people want to believe it to be. This perpetuates itself because every once and a while somebody gets bent out of shape about all the Texas stuff at some store and goes and complains. The poor b@$t@rd that gets griped at says "Hey, don't blame me. SMU doesn't license its stuff out to anybody." And, like always, the words of some guy he barely knows are taken as the gospel truth and then get put on here and he tells all his buddies that the reason he can't get an SMU hat at Academy is because of some braindead marketing person at SMU.

What that poor b@$t@rd didn't say is the real reason he didn't have any SMU stuff is the lack of demand. He didn't want to insult your alma mater to your face.

The fact is that in most cases, SMU licenses its name and logos through the same companies as everyone else. It applies to hats, shoes, shirts, rugs, flags and shot glasses. Sure, you can get a Nebraska Cornhuskers Casket and maybe SMU won't allow a license on that. However, the truth is that if you wanted to, you could call up the SMU bookstore's suppliers and order 500,000 hats and t-shirts if you'd like and sell them at all the truck stops, flea markets and gun shows you wanted. You'd go broke doing it, but you could try.

The braindead marketing people are braindead because they can't get any value out of their brand, not because they won't sell it.

Oh, and I was at Academy last week by Willw Bend and they didn't have any TCU stuff, either.

[SMU Football Blog]

They made us buy the jerseys, but if you were smart you would simply not turn it back in after the game. That goes for the helmet, shoes, gloves, ect.

What, after the last game, you'd just walk to your car wearing your uniform, pads and everything?

"Welp, see ya later!"

[35straight]

I'm assuming the NCAA requires the athletes to buy them back at cost? How much did you have to pay for something you sweated blood in?

Dont remember how much they wanted for it. Didnt care.

[mrydel]

The only thing I would dispute in your statement is that when I went into a sporting goods store in Dallas and asked why they did not carry any SMU items they point blank told me "because no one ever wants any". They did not try to hold back any insult, and I had nothing to do but nod and leave.

[BornRed&Blue]

It really gets to me that we are in the third largest metropolitan area in the United States, and you can only find SMU gear in about 4 places.

My mother used to say "Penny wise and Pound foolish". I don't really know what this means, but learned that when she said it, it meant that saving money one place was keeping you from making more money in another place. This is what SMU is doing. They are trying to control the merchandising completely, and as a result, they are not making the money they would on higher volume, not to mention the publicity and public awareness of lots of SMU stuff circulating.

[docabel]

I've bought SMU merchandise many times not on campus. In fact just recently I was at the new Steve and Barry's store in Grapevine and they had about 4-5 different SMU t-shirts, and even a couple of different hats as well.

[SMU_is_bowling]

With two of those being on campus . . . the 3rd Steve and Barry's . . . the 4th EBay (and in limited supply)

[35straight]

Just make your own.

[expony18]

I'm assuming the NCAA requires the athletes to buy them back at cost? How much did you have to pay for something you sweated blood in?

Dont remember how much they wanted for it. Didnt care.

i think it was something like $25 per jersey.... somewhere around there though

[Peruna2001]

You can find lots of SMU hats at Lids in any mall. I've even found some in San Antonio when I go down there. They have pretty much the same styles that they have for every other school and have for years.

Also, has anybody noticed all of the college stuff at Lowe's recently? They have SMU trashcans, clocks, and a couple of other things. They offer the same for all of the Texas schools. My dad was in SA and bought me a clock. He thought it was cool that they had the clock at a Lowe's in SA. They also have gift cards and keys with the schools' logos on them. However, I haven't found those with the SMU logo on it.

However, I am still wearing my shirts that I got for free while at SMU. I can't seem to find any shirts that I like in the bookstore, and apparently they've closed down most of the remaining competition around SMU.

[SMU_is_bowling]

Yeah, you just throw the jersey, helmet in your travel bag . . . and don't bring it back . . . not like anyone was going to our stuff for us!!

Although Ed would have you a*% if he caught you!!!!

[South Bay Mustang]

I've also wondered how trading card companies get a hold of game used jerseys that they cut up into thousands of little swatches and insert onto the memorabilia cards. Guess you gotta know someone on the inside.

[Dutch]

in regards to the ebay jerseys, did any of you think that since we changed unis a couple years ago, that the obsolete jerseys were of no use and could be sold to someone like this?

on merch. supply v. demand. to say that SMU doesn't license is the dumbest thing i've heard in a long time. if there's one thing SMU can do, it's business.

[South Bay Mustang]

Don't know how the merchandising deal works with the suppliers, but I was told that even schools like USC sometimes have to use some of their older or outdated uniforms at least as practice jerseys because they only receive a litmited supply every year.