For a school that prides itself with its marketing program......................

[Turbine]

Whether ANYONE likes it or NOT, the name of the university is...get ready....University of Louisiana at Lafayette...get over what YOU want it to be called for once...and this includes everyone! Stop beating a dead horse......

My 2nd favorite team has the official name; University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

You may know them as Nebraska.

[AirBill]

http://www.utexas.edu/ ... University of Texas at Austin
http://www.wisc.edu/ ... University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.unc.edu/ ... The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://www.louisiana.edu/ ... The University of Louisiana at Lafayette

This is a tempest in a teapot.

[CajunFan83]

I think we may be missing the point. Let's not argue what the law says. We are to the point where drastic change needs to happen. Go to the legislature and make your best pitch on why law needs to be CHANGED. Let's cut the grey area out and become THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA. No matter how pointless it may be to try. For that matter, try every year or multiple times a year. Introduce it into every bill you can. It's now or never as far as I'm concered.

[pasbon]

I think we may be missing the point. Let's not argue what the law says. We are to the point where drastic change needs to happen. Go to the legislature and make your best pitch on why law needs to be CHANGED. Let's cut the grey area out and become THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA. No matter how pointless it may be to try. For that matter, try every year or multiple times a year. Introduce it into every bill you can. It's now or never as far as I'm concered.

Good idea but it won't happen. To many more important things for the legislature to worry about. Would be interesting to know, how many of the current legislators are LSwho grads. Just curious is all

[CajunSaint]

Good idea but it won't happen. To many more important things for the legislature to worry about. Would be interesting to know, how many of the current legislators are LSwho grads. Just curious is all

oh, yeah. good point. too bad they didn't have "to[sic] many more important things to worry about" back in the early '80's instead of getting involved with our name change.

[pasbon]

oh, yeah. good point. too bad they didn't have "to[sic] many more important things to worry about" back in the early '80's instead of getting involved with our name change.

oh..you mean more important things than say loss of money due to the oilfield tanking, thus costing the state million of dollars in royalty payments...people of out jobs, people leaving the state, homes being given up to foreclosure...yeah, you know, the unimportant things beside a name change.....guess you weren't old enough.....

[BrockMeaux]

oh..you mean more important things than say loss of money due to the oilfield tanking, thus costing the state million of dollars in royalty payments...people of out jobs, people leaving the state, homes being given up to foreclosure...yeah, you know, the unimportant things beside a name change.....guess you weren't old enough.....

I think you missed his point. But I might be wrong.

[epiccajun]

I think you missed his point. But I might be wrong.

Yea - he definitely missed the point. But should that surprise, considering some the insane drivel he posts here.

BWK said it nicely... If there is a public servant monitoring this stuff, and drawing a salary, then they should be terminated with cause immediately.

And likewise, civilians that constantly monitor it, should remove the tin foil helmet from their heads, get a life, or check into the nearest mental institution an get help.


Go Cajuns! Whip some FAU azz!

[ULtimateCajun]

Although I agree with the original post. And that marketing and name issues are a problem. Nobody will call us UL or Louisiana and we get Lafayette-ed in every mention.....not to be confused by the Lafayette Leopards. Damned if we do, damned if we don't. Someone will always have 2 cents on our name and someone won't be happy about it.

[Membertou]

I can tell you that I canceled my subscription to the Advertiser (again) for going back to the tag on non-sports articles. They also call us ULL in the obituaries. How many of you Advertiser subscribers have cancelled your subscriptions?

You have to support people who honor our wishes and not support people who don't. It's that simple.

We're probably never going to have the kind of marketing at the university we'd like. I've seen this go on 40 years. Do what is within your control to further the cause.

The masses (of which each of you are a member) determine what UL is called. You empower others. It's hard to stop a train.

Believe me, I don't want to sing the DA's praises here, but to be fair--the newspaper doesn't write things like obituaries or wedding announcements. They are written by the families and submitted. At least in the case of obituaries, the family has to pay for the space.