Now that we've gotten the personal ____ out of the way tell me what makes you think they will agree to our use of Louisiana and what we will have to or be willing to give up? Given all of their past history in this struggle what makes you believe you can achieve peace for our time? It's a serious question, Mr. Chamberlin.
Rebel is a bad name, should be CajunAppeasement
Remember, Ray already made a deal with them. He helped or at least did not oppose conference membership for them in exchange for the name change. We made no secret of our ultimate goal regarding the name. They immediately tried to seize the name themselves with Smoke Laval using it initially for baseball and then their football team using it on helmets. It didn't catch on for them especially when the NCAA forced them to drop the Indians mascot. So they are being hypocrites today. And even if an accommodation could be reached, a million to one shot, I wouldn't trust any deal made with them.
Just to clarify the Joe Davis thing and his tweet this week.
Davis, you may or may not remember, was part of the Sun Belt Network. At the time, WW was commissioner and he was very vocal in making sure we were not called anything we wanted to be called.
Like everyone else (including most of you,) Davis is going to listen to whoever writes the check.
He (incorrectly) assumed the policy still held true, which was why he used it exclusively. The conference this week clarified its stance.
So Davis wasn't (intentionally) throwing anyone under the bus. ESPN will use whatever a school is known by on a national basis.
UAB used to be called Alabama at Birmingham. But they pounded UAB to where that's how they're known as. And, ESPN uses it.
That's the best example that comes to my incredibly tired mind.
Let's get something straight here. Right now, the official name of our university is the Univeristy of Louisiana at Lafayette. This is what we call ourselves everywhere that doesn't involve football. And when it does involve football most people still call us Louisiana-Lafayette anyway. Are you really happy with this?????? Do you think this is somehow going to magically change one day????? Do you think the LSUs and ULMs of the world are going to stop caring about this????? The situation we're in today is completely unacceptable and I don't know why people like you are okay with it.
It's about trying to get our rightful name with a solution that will get our opponents on our side. I don't know what the answer is but we've got to shoot for something better than the status quo. What we're doing is not working and we've got to come up with a different strategy.
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