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I copied this from the most recent UNT Insider email. I think this is a great idea and couldn't agree more. I hope everyone will do their part in it.

Exes strive to help you get your green easier

I hope you'll help the North Texas Exes in their important crusade to get

more UNT merchandise in stores so that you - and numerous other North Texas

fans - can more easily find and purchase UNT green. The Exes want each of

us - including you and me - to begin asking store managers and buyers to

carry UNT licensed products. This is an important first step in ensuring

our shade of green lines just as many store shelves as the all-too-familiar

burnt orange and maroon.

http://www.unt.onlinecommunity.com/cgi-any...pages3_news.htm

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The Exes want each of

us - including you and me - to begin asking store managers and buyers to

carry UNT licensed products. This is an important first step in ensuring

our shade of green lines just as many store shelves as the all-too-familiar

burnt orange and maroon.

http://www.unt.onlinecommunity.com/cgi-any...pages3_news.htm

Damn, what a novel concept? I wonder, just wonder where in the world I have read this suggestion before?????????????????????????????????????????????? :rolleyes:

Rick

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"The Exes want each of us - including you and me - to begin asking store managers and buyers to carry UNT licensed products."

I thought the problem was not the store managers but WAS the licensed products company (CLC) was too difficult to work with? There is a still a major problem when many stores in Denton have no UNT gear.

Edited by NT80
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"The Exes want each of us - including you and me - to begin asking store managers and buyers to carry UNT licensed products."

I thought the problem was not the store managers but WAS the licensed products company (CLC) was too difficult to work with? There is a still a major problem when many stores in Denton have no UNT gear.

I'd say a little of both. The CLC contract truly hamstrings North Texas' efforts to get it's name out there. As I've said a thousand times before, until we have a problem protecting our $1.5 Million in annual sales of copyrighted logos from counterfeiting manufacturers NATION WIDE we don't need CLC. They are doing us a disservice by constricting down opportunities for smaller, local manufacturers of getting involved, and who would have more interest in making NT products than the few major, out of state manufacturers that deal solely with them. They are not pushing NT products like they are suppose to be in local stores and they are not policing our products as our contract states they should be. They are not enforcing the proper color manufacturers are using in some products and they are not forcing the removal of non approved products for sale.

Rick

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If any of you do this, I will be interested in the response you get. I often hear that "UNT just won't release the logo to us" from smaller companies. I am sure that is hogwash but there are A LOT of people that say it.

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If any of you do this, I will be interested in the response you get. I often hear that "UNT just won't release the logo to us" from smaller companies. I am sure that is hogwash but there are A LOT of people that say it.

That's simply the easiest way for a retailer's employee, who more than likely knows nothing of the process in the first place, to get you out of their hair. Others may truly be getting this message from their supplier.

If I had GreenStock still up and running, and you emailed me about the AutoEmblems, or Silk Neck Ties, this is what you would get from me, well, not from me but lets say, from someone who isn't as emotionally driven to supply you, the NT alumnus with the product you deserve.

Mr Zeke,

I inquired about your North Texas AutoEmblem and the company does not offer one for your school at this time. Please inquire back at a later date about this product. Thanks again....blah blah blah

What this actually meant was, I called and asked them to make this for me. My cost for this $8 product is $3.75 per unit. But the lousy, CLC bed laying bastards are forcing a minimum order of 5,000 units on me. This minimum order was set long ago by their usual orders for Michigan, Texas, North Carolina and the other 14 or so schools that lead the national collegiate manufacturing industry. As much as I'd love to carry this product for you, as I have had possibly 50 others like yourself ask me for it, I can't justify spending $18,000 plus, knowing I'd have to sell over 2,000 of them to simply break even.

True story.

Rick

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I was in Sports Authority off Loop 288 the other day and they have 3 different, good looking hats as well as Green and Grey shirts made by Adidas that looked pretty sharp also.

Posted

You know whats really sad? When you walk into the local Alberstons/whatever other grocery store I walked into this year, and you may see one NT shirt, but you see 2,3,4, t-shirts of not just the requisite UT, A&M, and OU, but you see SMU? and TCU? What's with that?

On another note, we really need to make some more creative merchadise. T-shirts with sayings besides the University of North Texas (yes, I know we have to advertise)... maybe an SMU shirt that says "Trust fund babies"... something relating to their "privleged" status. (Even though Dallas is ooooo so much more pretentious then Denton) I dont know just more sayings on shirts.

I was in Sports Authority off Loop 288 the other day and they have 3 different, good looking hats as well as Green and Grey shirts made by Adidas that looked pretty sharp also.

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"On another note, we really need to make some more creative merchadise. T-shirts with sayings besides the University of North Texas (yes, I know we have to advertise)... maybe an SMU shirt that says "Trust fund babies"... something relating to their "privleged" status. (Even though Dallas is ooooo so much more pretentious then Denton) I dont know just more sayings on shirts"

Those can be fun! There is a great shirt around Chapel Hill which says:

The Good (UNC)

The Bad (NC State)

The Ugly (Duke)

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But the lousy, CLC bed laying bastards are forcing a minimum order of 5,000 units on me. This minimum order was set long ago by their usual orders for Michigan, Texas, North Carolina and the other 14 or so schools that lead the national collegiate manufacturing industry.

Rick, how do the smaller schools get their product out and on the market seemingly so much easier than NT?

Posted

Damn, what a novel concept? I wonder, just wonder where in the world I have read this suggestion before?????????????????????????????????????????????? :rolleyes:

Rick

Rick, just because you've tried things in the past and didn't get them to work doesn't mean you have to rag on people for trying to actually get them done.

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Rick, just because you've tried things in the past and didn't get them to work doesn't mean you have to rag on people for trying to actually get them done.

Not ragging on anyone but rather applaud the effort. Excuse the lack of a sarcasm alert button. Many of us here have discussed this in great depth over the years and have suggested it to our officials in the AD dept, URCM dept and the NT Exes to notify the Mean Green Nation to take action when you can. Don't simply walk into a retail outlet and walk out if they don't have what your looking for, ask for it.

Rick

Edited by FirefightnRick
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--I like irritating the stores with few or no NT "goods" by asking if they have any--- then follow it up by saying. "That is surprising since North Texas is larger than TCU, SMU and Baylor combined".....or even saying that we are larger than TxTech... in other words a rather larger market is being missed. It makes them think a bit about it. Many people have no idea we are that large.

---- One advantage of starting a season playing universities such as OU, UT etc. .... it makes people think about us as being a major university which we are. When we play "name" universities it upgrades our visibility to many people. It sure got a lot of locals attention when we defeated or gave Tech a tough time. Most people here don't realize that North Texas is as large as it is.

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Want to have some fun ? Go to your local supermarket or big box retailer. Find the area where the Texas, Texas A & M, OU, or Nebraska items are displayed. Then ask for store assistance. When the clerk asks you how they can help you, ask where the North Texas stuff is kept. Sometimes, they'll look all over the store because, "I know we stock fans items from area schools."

Then ask, politely, if they could get some NT stuff in stock, and that you'll be back to buy it. Then buy it.

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A bunch of us tried similar stuff a few years back. We got a lot of flak from a few people "high up" who were concerned about protecting our rights, thinking Wal-Mart and everybody else selling our stuff would be too hard to make sure we were getting our money because there would be too much of it out there, etc.

My thoughts were basically along the lines of...isn't that why we employ attorneys and accountants and such, to ensure that contracts are properly written and enforced and that all of the money goes where it's supposed to?

Changes in leadership have been very helpful in altering the previous, somewhat "isolationist", point of view.

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