Acadiana Advocate named official news partner for Cajun athletics

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Originally Posted by ZoomZoom

Somebody obviously explained to the Advocate this would never happen with "Lafayette" forced into articles.

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There were told by Dr Maggard and Patrick Crawford that was the case, and now they have agreed to our Brand Name of Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns, or Ragin' Cajuns. The news division will still refer to us as The University of Louisiana @Lafayette as the Advertiser does as well.

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Originally Posted by cajun_lannister

I tip my hat to foote for his work on this

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This was going on before Foote was hired, he pushed them once he started submitting articles. The conversations started with Maggard and Crawford, commitments had to be made before it moved forward. The Advocate made it clear they were ready to work with UL after the hired Foote and a number of other media staff from the Daily Advertiser.

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Originally Posted by CajunT

There were told by Dr Maggard and Patrick Crawford that was the case, and now they have agreed to our Brand Name of Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns, or Ragin' Cajuns. The news division will still refer to us as The University of Louisiana @Lafayette as the Advertiser does as well.

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Originally Posted by CajunT

There were told by Dr Maggard and Patrick Crawford that was the case, and now they have agreed to our Brand Name of Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns, or Ragin' Cajuns. The news division will still refer to us as The University of Louisiana @Lafayette as the Advertiser does as well.

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That is great news. Even replacing the UL Lafayette headers with UL Ragin Cajuns would be a major improvement. Louisiana would be even better. And, I hope they add a header for UL in the New Orleans edition.

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Originally Posted by HoustonCajun

That is great news. Even replacing the UL Lafayette headers with UL Ragin Cajuns would be a major improvement. Louisiana would be even better. And, I hope they add a header for UL in the New Orleans edition.

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I don't know what the agreement is for Baton Rouge, Northshore or New Orleans markets. I do know that it will be as requested in the Acadiana addition.

So the Cajuns beat writer is going to write the article for the Lafayette Advocate and if it is going to appear in the Baton Rouge, Northshore or NO editions, some little minion will go in the piece and add a couple of additional L's and Lafayette's?

Don’t be so negative

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Originally Posted by CajunEXPRESS

Don’t be so negative

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That is positive - adding stuff 🤔

After many years of refusing to subscribe or even pick up the advocate, looks like I will subscribe to the online app version. I always said if they refer to our university in a way in which the school wished I would consider.

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Originally Posted by CajunT

There were told by Dr Maggard and Patrick Crawford that was the case, and now they have agreed to our Brand Name of Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns, or Ragin' Cajuns. The news division will still refer to us as The University of Louisiana @Lafayette as the Advertiser does as well.

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Can live with that. Didn’t T-Joe say athletics is our front porch? Just got to have Leerfield clean up the petty Lafayette references.

Timing is right if legislators are looking at redoing higher ed. Another validation for the Rustonians to add to their “lawsuit”. That ship done sailed and offloaded already.

I will go on record as not being a fan of this deal.

As bad as the Advertiser has been (recently) with a negative going through the motion writer, they have covered Louisiana Athletics for 119 years. No agreement needed.

This agreement with the Advocate will lead to less and less coverage by the Advertiser, and regarless of how, much their distribution has slipped, they are still by far the largest newspaper in Lafayette.

This is NOT how you grow a fan base, its how you shrink it.

Forging agreements that will lead to less coverage overall is a bad move.

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Originally Posted by KajunKrazy

After many years of refusing to subscribe or even pick up the advocate, looks like I will subscribe to the online app version. I always said if they refer to our university in a way in which the school wished I would consider.

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No need for subscription to on line version. That’s gonna cost ya zilch.