What do strangers see when the read UL-Lafayette

[Turbine]

Early this morning another example of mistaking UL for Lafayette has popped up. They had the wrong story altogether and the revised story is now found in this LINK.

State teams to meet in Indy
Conseco Fieldhouse to host Notre Dame, IU and Butler in preseason NIT

By Terry Hutchens
terry.hutchens@indystar.com
Indiana, Butler and Notre Dame basketball fans will be converging upon Indianapolis in November to see their teams square off in the preseason National Invitation Tournament.

Under a new format, teams no longer will play first- and second-round games on campus sites. Instead, four teams will play in each of four geographical regions, with winners advancing to the final four at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 22-24.

IU, Butler and Notre Dame will be joined by UL-Lafayette in the Midwest Regional at Conseco Fieldhouse. IU will face UL and Notre Dame will play Butler on Nov. 13. Game times will be announced later. On Nov. 14, the two winners and two losers will play.

The East Regional will be played in Charlotte, N.C., and feature North Carolina. The South Regional in Nashville showcases Tennessee, and the West in Spokane, Wash., includes Gonzaga.

"We've been examining this for the past eight months and the importance of giving our teams an opportunity to play at least two games in regional sites showed itself as a priority early in the process," NIT committee chairman C.M. Newton said in a news release. "Going to regional sites and guaranteeing teams two games levels the playing field and just makes good basketball sense."

Butler and Notre Dame met regularly through 1995, after which the series was discontinued. Butler won the last five meetings in the series, while Notre Dame holds a 71-30 edge all time.

This will be the first meeting between IU and Lafayette. The Ragin' Cajuns were 13-16 last season and 7-8 in the Sun Belt Conference.

Call Star reporter Terry Hutchens at (317) 444-6469.

[CajunNation]

No offense but I also never heard of the Babtist University or Sackville, NS. Many more have heard of Louisiana than Acadiana, and I must agree with UL just staying the course. If you look at any of the name change history, "eventually" we got what we started out fighting for.

Once it is official that we are "by Law" able to as a University use University of Louisiana or Louisiana people will for get the Lafayette like they have forgotten Austin.

DaddyCajun

That's a nice thought, but do you honestly ever see a time when the evil empire will let that happen?

In the meantime, we lose more of our identity every day.

[AstroCajun]

Early this morning another example of mistaking UL for Lafayette has popped up. They had the wrong story altogether and the revised story is now found in this LINK.

The enemy is not LSU, the enemy is the University of Lafayette.

They must be stopped.

[jay bee]

I think the best thing we have going for us is "Ragin' Cajuns"--it is universally recognized. If we could get more of our sports jersey's to read "Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns," (I think some of the baseball jersey's are this way and it is the way T.D. announces the team) this might help people understand. Maybe the media guides can put this as a designated manner of referring to our athletic teams (i.e., "Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns" instead of "the Ragin' Cajuns of the University of Louisiana-Lafayette").

[Turbine]

I think the best thing we have going for us is "Ragin' Cajuns"--it is universally recognized. If we could get more of our sports jersey's to read "Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns," (I think some of the baseball jersey's are this way and it is the way T.D. announces the team) this might help people understand. Maybe the media guides can put this as a designated manner of referring to our athletic teams (i.e., "Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns" instead of "the Ragin' Cajuns of the University of Louisiana-Lafayette").

Louisiana's Ragin Cajuns is good, very good.

"Ragin' Cajuns of Louisiana" is better.

[BonCajun]

The enemy is not LSU, the enemy is the University of Lafayette.

They must be stopped.

Who had the dumb idea we were better off as Lafayette? This writer did no research at all to include us in the NIT

[Turbine]

This writer did no research at all to include us in the NIT

I believe the writer did do his research. I contend he received a press release that had Lafayette and in his "Lafayette" research he came up with a mis-marketed school located in Louisiana.

I was reading the fall 2005 issue of La Louisiane and in the opening salvo of 8 paragraphs when many of the paragraphs were only a single sentence and none were more than 3 sentences long; there were 5 UL Lafayette references.

It is unfortunate and undeniable; this school is being marketed as Lafayette.

[CajunNation]

I believe the writer did do his research. I contend he received a press release that had Lafayette and in his "Lafayette" research he came up with a mis-marketed school located in Louisiana.

I was reading the fall 2005 issue of La Louisiane and in the opening salvo of 8 paragraphs when many of the paragraphs were only a single sentence and none were more than 3 sentences long; there were 5 UL Lafayette references.

It is unfortunate and undeniable; this school is being marketed as Lafayette.

Yep.

I also find it quite humorous that the main objection I hear from certain people against puting UL on the football helmet like the baseball hats is that, "They are going to think the L stands for Lafayette".

How stupid does that stance look now.

We ARE Lafayette, unless something drastic happens.