2013 Staking a Claim for Louisiana

[Turbine]

Winning and promoting Lafayette College at the same time is not an option.

[Turbine]

I don't know with whom you have been speaking, but the ones with whom I've been speaking, while sounding cordial, have not given any inkling that they are receptive to changing their stance.

Let them soak in the new SBC stance.

I have what I think to be justified confidence in the UL SID to distribute the message properly.

I am not saying 100% desired results will occur on such short notice tonight, but combined with the fan effort over the last week, I think the Midas touch from the SID would be most effective tonight.

jmo

[VObserver]

I spoke to my friend who is the associate director of the Sun Belt conference and he just about echoes everything said here. He swears that the Sun Belt has always said ...."it's cool, call them what they want." But ESPN has their own agendas and when word got out on Twitter, they just wanted to make it abudantly clear.

He also said....dont hold your breath in thinking ESPN will suddenly roll over, they will still do what they want.

Am I the only one who sees "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" after the bolded quote? If the Conference was REALLY ok with Louisiana for us, they would have changed their website long ago, and sent out memos to all media outlets that the only acceptable branding is "Louisiana".

This little leak today is just to shut us up for a while.

[Cajunrunner]

The only name that matters is being called winner when the night is over. I don't care if they ULL us all night long as long as we win. Being called Louisiana is meaningless if we do not win the game and in fact will cause us to look foolish if we do not win as our focus will have been misplaced. Fortunately, I am sure Coach Hud and the team are not worried about this issue, but are zeroed in on what it takes to defeat the Red Wolves. That should also be where we as a a fanbase should put our energy for the next few hours.

Bingo.

[Hammer58]

I spoke to my friend who is the associate director of the Sun Belt conference and he just about echoes everything said here. He swears that the Sun Belt has always said ...."it's cool, call them what they want." But ESPN has their own agendas and when word got out on Twitter, they just wanted to make it abudantly clear.

He also said....dont hold your breath in thinking ESPN will suddenly roll over, they will still do what they want.

True, but they wont be able to hide behind "the conference made us do it" excuse.

And their "we dont want anyone to be confused because of two schools in the same region or conference" flies in the face of their use of UNLV and Nevada. I don't think too many folks are confused about the diffeence between the Running Rebels and the Wolfpack. I wonder if Joe Davis called any Nevada games?

[VObserver]

Shouldn't it be "rein"? or "reins"? Just sayin'.

No. 'Reign", meaning "Sovereignty" or "Authority" is correct.

[Hammer58]

Am I the only one who sees "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" after the bolded quote? If the Conference was REALLY ok with Louisiana for us, they would have changed their website long ago, and sent out memos to all media outlets that the only acceptable branding is "Louisiana".

This little leak today is just to shut us up for a while.

Actually the quote from Karl was "Its cool, call them what they want. Whatever. Now I'm late for my tee time."

[Go_UL]

Am I the only one who sees "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" after the bolded quote? If the Conference was REALLY ok with Louisiana for us, they would have changed their website long ago, and sent out memos to all media outlets that the only acceptable branding is "Louisiana".

This little leak today is just to shut us up for a while.

The announcer for the game tonight...Davis is the last name i think was interviewed on 103.7 this morning and stated he will use Ragin Cajuns mostly and would not have a problem using Louisiana also becuase Louisiana-Lafayette is a mouthful. We shall see.

[tetragrammaton]

No. 'Reign", meaning "Sovereignty" or "Authority" is correct.

I figured that works as well. Just wasn't sure. No biggie.

[basinbear]

I wonder if the thread started on the Sun Belt fan board has been sent to smack yet....VO's 1 day old record for being sent to smack in record time could be smashed...lol