I was as the Grapevine Mills mall this weekend and went into FANZZ. It was a very nice store. I talked to the manager and asked, like I do when I go to any other sports store between Shreveport and Dallas, if they had any Louisiana Tech stuff. I thought they might have a hat or something. The guy looked at me and said, "Man you are the first person in 5 years to ask me if we had anything for there." We got to talking about why LA TECH does not have anything out in stores except in the Ruston/Shreveport/Monroe areas. He said that since we have signed with Nike it might be easier soon to get some stuff.
He told me that they are looking at putting a store in one of the malls or the boardwalk in Shreveport but did not know when. He just said that the company was looking at it.
He also said that FANZZ was owned by the Utah Jazz. It would be great if we could get Karl to talk with someone in the company to get them to start carrying LA TECH stuff. We all know that Karl has ties with both places so maybe sometime in the near future we can start getting nice looking stuff with Louisiana Tech on it.
Just wanted to let you in Shreveport know there maybe a new store coming and maybe if we had enough people go in and ask for our schools stuff we might could get them to start carrying some.