SID - Use of LOUISIANA

[CajunNation]

Besides last night I am seeing more Lafayette branding than ever before.

I think Dr. Savoie may have quietly decided "we are lafayette" .

I knew back in 1998 that this name change would be great for Academics and horrible for Athletics.


We really have reached the point that if the school is not going to push Louisiana Ragin Cajuns, we need to push the letters(U-L-L) just like ULM.

[CajunZ1]

Maybe it's the back to back national television beatdowns, but I'm ready to let go of the rope on the name issue. go ull.

[CajunFan83]

Now, after last night with ESPN on our turf and our commissioner attending, all we get is Louisiana Lafayette, Lafayette, UL Lafayette, U La La, and even called UL Monroe. When does all of this crap end? When does this university take a stand and when is Dr. Savoie going to put out his branding initiative that he promised over a year ago?

It really is disrespectful the way ESPN treats us. If we have any pride left the administration needs to do something and they need to do it yesterday. Just imagine if you were in charge of an organization and someone was at your place calling you by the wrong name and laughing. I would kick some a** to the burb immediately. Over the course of the game I probably heard 5 different references (not including the Monroe one). And by the way, it's not a guy in Bristol calling us Monroe, it's the guy that's physically in Lafayette who has been there for 2 days!! There's no way to mess that up unless it's on purpose.

[Hooj_Cajun_Fan]

I hate being called "ULL" and hate being called "Lafayette." I'd rather change our name to University of Acadiana and go by "Acadiana" than just give up and be cool with being called Lafayette or ULL.


...boy it sure feels like the sky is falling. The loss last night really blew.

[CajunRebel]

If I've learned anything in life it's that it's extremely hard to get someone to do something they don't want to do. We can't just force ESPN to call us Louisiana if they don't want to. I know for a fact that ESPN knows we want to be called Louisiana and that our administration tries to convince them to call us UL to no avail. I don't know what else the administration can do here. How do we "take a stand" against ESPN?

[Turbine]

It's obvious what happened here.

The announcers did all their pregame research on the fan websites of UL's opponents and grabbed every reference in the book.

Either that or they read Kathleen Thames La Louisiane

[CajunFan83]

If I've learned anything in life it's that it's extremely hard to get someone to do something they don't want to do. We can't just force ESPN to call us Louisiana if they don't want to. I know for a fact that ESPN knows we want to be called Louisiana and that our administration tries to convince them to call us UL to no avail. I don't know what else the administration can do here. How do we "take a stand" against ESPN?

Legal Action.

[HoustonCajun]

If I've learned anything in life it's that it's extremely hard to get someone to do something they don't want to do. We can't just force ESPN to call us Louisiana if they don't want to. I know for a fact that ESPN knows we want to be called Louisiana and that our administration tries to convince them to call us UL to no avail. I don't know what else the administration can do here. How do we "take a stand" against ESPN?

What is so confounding is when Hud was on ESPN, they called us Louisiana. They just named a mid-year All American team and named Brett Baer - Louisiana on first team. Yet, they televise our games and report our scores and we get the multiple name references. I would really like to know just what our AD and SID discuss with them in that regard and why they are so oblivious to our requests.

[CajunFan83]

It's just the arrogance of their network. ESPN is essentially a monopoly since there isn't a true 24/7 sports competitor so they do what they want. The truth is they probably will never have a competitor since it would take billions to compete at that level. Not to metion the decade long contracts they have in almost every sport conbined with the financial backing and access that Disney has. The attitude is that they are doing us a favor by putting us on TV. They know we aren't a revenue generator like the big conferences so they don't care how they treat us.

[LOUISIANA RAGIN]

It's just the arrogance of their network. ESPN is essentially a monopoly since there isn't a true 24/7 sports competitor so they do what they want. The truth is they probably will never have a competitor since it would take billions to compete at that level. Not to metion the decade long contracts they have in almost every sport conbined with the financial backing and access that Disney has. The attitude is that they are doing us a favor by putting us on TV. They know we aren't a revenue generator like the big conferences so they don't care how they treat us.

I saw 3 idiot students painted their bodies with U-L-L painted on their bodies????? Whats the deal when the students cant get it right - they must have accepted the ull BS also..... very disappointing