2023 USF Our Shirts Now on Sale

[Mike Stuben]

10 hours ago, Friscobull said:

I am offended with our as I identify as they them and who dat, stopped buying cheap **** once I got a job but thanks Mike.  I wonder if you turn green after breaking a sweat?

I can assure you "our" includes: they, them and who dat. 

In all seriousness, they become a bond for students and really help put a lot more USF gear on campus. 

Quality of the shirt is solid. All name brands (Haynes, Gildan, Fruit of the Loom)

[Mike Stuben]

16 hours ago, hm101 said:

i love the notoriously tacky/simple designs, low price point, and the annual tradition around them. i have an 07 Our Shirt with Grothe on it, even though I am 2010 - I have my 2010 one too. 2010 is particularly bad

So, as the "money" person involved in the Our Shirts the last 6 or 7 years, I can tell you there are razor thin margins, as the shirt really isn't designed with profit in mind. We ask students to submit a design for front and back, we add the Our Shirt logo to the sleeve (one year it was on the chest, but most years on the sleeve). One of the things I do is make sure we don't use too many colors in the print, to be able to keep the cost low. The sleeve is always a 1 color imprint, and I try to keep the front to 3 colors and the back to 2. But the dark green shirt can act as an extra color by having spaces where the shirt shows through in the design. 

The bookstore sells them for no profit, they simply return the money to SG. They do this to drive business in their doors, as most people buy other stuff too. 

SG does give some away. so when the price point was $5, I tried to keep the cost under $4.50. This year the cost crept over $5, so we bumped to $6, with the hope we can leave it at $6 for a while before having to bump it again. The goal is for the program to pay for itself, but profit really isn't a concern. It is meant to build school spirit on campus and be a service to students. 

[hm101]

2 hours ago, Mike Stuben said:

So, as the "money" person involved in the Our Shirts the last 6 or 7 years, I can tell you there are razor thin margins, as the shirt really isn't designed with profit in mind. We ask students to submit a design for front and back, we add the Our Shirt logo to the sleeve (one year it was on the chest, but most years on the sleeve). One of the things I do is make sure we don't use too many colors in the print, to be able to keep the cost low. The sleeve is always a 1 color imprint, and I try to keep the front to 3 colors and the back to 2. But the dark green shirt can act as an extra color by having spaces where the shirt shows through in the design. 

The bookstore sells them for no profit, they simply return the money to SG. They do this to drive business in their doors, as most people buy other stuff too. 

SG does give some away. so when the price point was $5, I tried to keep the cost under $4.50. This year the cost crept over $5, so we bumped to $6, with the hope we can leave it at $6 for a while before having to bump it again. The goal is for the program to pay for itself, but profit really isn't a concern. It is meant to build school spirit on campus and be a service to students. 

thou doth protest too much. as I mentioned before, I like that they're student-led, simple, and kind of off sometimes. it keeps it real. it's OUR shirt, not a $35 shirt where we're paying some design firm to tell us what we want to be this year. 

[Mike Stuben]

18 minutes ago, hm101 said:

thou doth protest too much. as I mentioned before, I like that they're student-led, simple, and kind of off sometimes. it keeps it real. it's OUR shirt, not a $35 shirt where we're paying some design firm to tell us what we want to be this year. 

Wasn't meant as rebuttal, just more info for anyone curious. My bad if the tone was not properly expressed. 

[hm101]

[Mike Stuben]

7 minutes ago, hm101 said:

The one on the right might be the very first one, if not it is close. I need to look up what year Greg Morgan was SG Pres, it started in his term. 

[JoeB]

That's a great $6 shirt

[bull2saintleo]

Was the 2008 shirt the one that had the three athletes (baseball, basketball, and football i think) on the back (including Grothe) and the players numbers were 20, 0, and 8?

Edited July 13, 2023 by bull2saintleo