Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Ah, the good ol’ University of Kansas football spring scrimmage, where the tackling isn’t too hard and the T-shirts are free of charge. But are they too large?
Seriously, good luck fitting into one of the complimentary T-shirts you get from the Athletics Department. Fans who stood in the fairly long T-shirt line had two options: large or extra large.
What about people like me, the victims in this case? My metabolism is abnormally fast. I stay skinny no matter what I eat. The weight-gaining impaired should be able to wear a free T-shirt that fits. After all, this is the United States.
“We’ve found most people want shirts that are a little bigger,” Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, said. “That’s what we stuck with.”
How hard would it be to make some mediums, or smalls for the kiddos? It’s not about the money, Marchiony said, but that too many options may slow down entrance to an event, with people taking more time to choose a shirt size.
Marchiony is right to an extent. Some people I talked to love the shirt sizes, but they were all males.
“My preference is large,” Richie Schlozman, Overland Park freshman, said. “I can imagine there are people who they wouldn’t fit, though.”
Yeah, people like Breanne Russell.
“I use them as night shirts, or give them away to my dad,” the Topeka senior said. “They are even too big for him.”
Of the seven T-shirts I’ve collected at University sporting events, five are folded up somewhere in the back of my closet, while the other two are decorative pillow cases for my living-room couch (thanks for the tip, Mom). For me, wearing one makes me look like a ten-year old playing dress up with big-people clothes.
“We want to make everyone happy, but sometimes that’s not possble,” Marchiony said. “Most people are just happy to receive a free shirt.”
But if the sizes were more diverse, I guarantee you’d see those free T-shirts more often around campus.
“If they’d fit, I’d wear them more,” Russell said. “I’m not angry, just kind of like ‘ugh.’ ”
Robinett is an Austin, Texas senior in journalism.
— Edited by Joe Caponio
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Robinett: T-shirts go to waste
Agreed 100%. I have probably been given 20-25 shirts in my time at KU, and not a single one has been smaller than XL. Even after doing my best to shrink them, they are worthless for anything other than a nightshirt. Come on KU, I love free stuff, but at least make it functional!
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