What happened to MERCH?

[Heavyarms]

Today at my office it's "tailgate Friday" in anticipation of the big LSU/Alabama game and everyone was "encouraged" to wear their team apparel. Looks like I'm the lone Dawg in a sea of LSU, Southern, and Southeastern (and BAMA!!!???) gear.

I'm wearing one of my several generic "State T" blue shirts and was thinking how cool it would be to bearing a Bradshaw or Roaf jersey right now. Naturally, the only "official" jerseys I can find are on ebay. I swear several years ago I walked into the Tech book store and could find Bradshaw and Roaf jerseys on the racks. What's happened to all that stuff? Is it a Barnes & Noble thing? I notice that B&N is the official store for Tech and the two ULs. They have jerseys available on their website, but they're just generic, cookie-cutter jerseys that all have the same exact jersey pattern and don't look anything like what's actually on the field. Same stripes, same font on the front of the jersey, only available in black or white (although both ULs get a couple of other options that may or may not be a little more accurate to something they wear or used to wear, IDK.) You can customize the jersey number and NOB, but there is no player specific merch.

Tech jersey
ULM jersey
ULL jersey

The basketball jerseys are the same thing, same exact pattern, just the colors and the logos are changed. At least the ULL and Tech baseball jerseys are a litte more accurate.

Contrast that with the LSU team store (run by Fanatics, which runs every NFL, MLB, NHL, and NBA team store) where you can actually scroll down and find merch for specific players; Joe Burrow, OBJ, Fournette, Shaq, etc. Obviously LSU is going to move a little more fan gear than any of its little brothers, but why are we stuck with what we have? Seems like it would be fairly easy to set something up between big name players like Bradshaw and Roaf and some other prominent players to sell gear with their name on it. How hard would it be to come up with gear that is patterned correctly?

[sportdawg]

Fan Base has an Amik Jersey in Blue https://fanbaseruston.com/products/la-tech-adidas-replica-football-jersey-royal?variant=40947017351341
White: https://fanbaseruston.com/products/la-tech-adidas-replica-football-jersey-white

Generic Jerseys on Barnes & Noble https://latech.spirit.bncollege.com/...RLP:m-SIDE_NAV.

Fanatics has something? https://www.fanatics.com/jerseys/d-31779089+z-9154823-2286919689?query=Louisiana%20tech&_ref=p-SRP:m-SIDE_NAV


This site has the ACTUAL Basketball Jerseys (minus the 80s throwback) https://orscalina.us/page/1/?s=Louis...t_type=product

[sportdawg]

Lots of jerseys here. Looks like they are NIL type stuff / don’t see anything customizable https://athletesthread.com/collectio...y=best-selling

[Heavyarms]

I saw the Athletesthread.com ones. Problem is I don't know if those and the orscalina ones are officially licensed. The Athletes Thread ones say they are officially licensed, but I've never heard of that brand. When I click on the LSU logo, it takes me to their ULL landing page.

The ones at Fanatics are just the same generic templates on sale at B&N. So maybe B&N is just selling the generic Fanatics ones?