Will this be the year with the lowest State Cup Sweatshirt sales?

My 2004 hoodie is a Hanes beefy model, perhaps the warmest hoodie I own. I just washed it yesterday (looked like sunscreen stains around the collar) and I am wearing it now.
 
Both my girls wore their hoodies to school today. They don't care about the quality of the material or the graphic design. They just love the experience and the perceived hype of it all. Yeah they'll probably end up rotting in the closet in a few months, but maybe not, and the excitement and smiles on my kids' faces tells me its money well spent, every year. Heck my younger DD still wears her 2017 Blues Cup Champions hoodie all the time. They love this stuff and that's ultimately what I'm paying for.
 
My son has worn it three days in a row, reminds me of my first concert shirt-Depeche Mode. I also remember how heartbroken I was at 10 yrs old when I got my "All Stars Jacket" the plastic one from baseball in the 80's and I sat too close to the fireplace and it melted :eek:. Their kids that are just stoked for a sweatshirt that shows they went someplace, cant get mad at that.......enjoy the journey I say.
 
Interesting that most of us (me included) look at it like "the quality of this stuff is crap, why bother buying it?" but the kids have a completely different perspective; most of them love the stuff for the reasons explained by posters above.

I'm constantly battling with trying to see things from the kids' perspective, rather than my own. We all need to try and do that more often if we can.
 
They made no YS and always ran out of YM. Most of my 2010's went without and were very upset. Very shortsighted not having YS if you have a U9 division.
 
Anyone else have a sweatshirt that is already falling apart?
My 07 kid got hers in earl Feb and it looks like it is 5 years old. Bought at Silverlakes.

My 04 kid got hers in Oceanside 2 weeks ago. The iron on is already peeling off.

My wife wants to try and return it at dicks since they were the sponsor.

Crappy ass sweatshirts. And a crappy ass iron on.
What’s another $80 in the grand scheme of things?
 
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