2013 Staking a Claim for Louisiana

[CrazyCajun]

With our best player out...I know blah blah blah Gautier then Broadway...just saying...again with the budget the Cajuns have it should never be close...I'm a proud supporter of both schools...I hope both do well...most know you have to crawl before you walk...some just think the Cajuns can run by having 2 good to grat seasons...that creates high expectations that can come back and bite the school if we have down yrs and lose any momentum and those on the fence fans in lafayette

We have beaten you 5 times in a row, with your best player, without your best player, with our best player, without our best player... We beat you 1time without any players I think

[ULalum06]

sorry if this has been covered, but I went to the article in an attempt to see my comments. Jason Bourne put a link a few days ago to the older (first chronological) comments. that link is broken and loops you back to the original article. Later he comments that "Sorry folks, The News Star has removed that article".

gee...how convenient.

[Hammer58]

No BS here man...ULM know what we need to do and our lack of funds...and yes Cajuns have won the last 2 games closely vs a under budgeted team...so The Cajuns to me aren't over achieving here...SBC champs lately?...that's should be the goal in laffy since you are the best team right?...you are a clueless and hopeless fan...good for you pipe dreams..don't be D...I haven't been confrontational on this board...idiots like you that take it too seriously set lafayette apart for a bad reason...win the SB going forward (which could hopefully happen this yr) then talk about being the next best thing...have some perspective it's the Sun Belt...everyone is broke...some more than others

No, you haven't been confrontational just an annoying whiney troll. You claim ulm knows what needs to be done, then just do it it and Please with all this whining about UL. You do your thing and we'll do ours. That would be a refreshing change in this state.

[ZoomZoom]

----OK-we will start with a 5% drop in enrollment over the last 2 years--an endowment of very little that is not growing----A football program that has hit almost rock bottom---a coach not wanted that you can't shed---A 3 year delay in starting an end zone project---An economy that is struggling---a non-favorable demographic outlook for the area---a school down the block that can beat you--- a decrease if that was possible in attendance----lower than expected CUSA revenue---A recruiting nightmare from the Bowl screw up last year---A Shreveport City that is still ______ed about that---shall I continue???

No replacement dog? Skip Holtz?

[Just1More]

No BS here man...ULM know what we need to do and our lack of funds...and yes Cajuns have won the last 2 games closely vs a under budgeted team...so The Cajuns to me aren't over achieving here...SBC champs lately?...that's should be the goal in laffy since you are the best team right?...you are a clueless and hopeless fan...good for you pipe dreams..don't be D...I haven't been confrontational on this board...idiots like you that take it too seriously set lafayette apart for a bad reason...win the SB going forward (which could hopefully happen this yr) then talk about being the next best thing...have some perspective it's the Sun Belt...everyone is broke...some more than others

It seems odd that you tell us to settle down... and win the SBC title... before "we" brag about anything... considering we've dominated your program... that you earlier bragged had gotten way more recognition last year than we've ever gotten... in the same year we smacked your program... in your house... and went on to our second straight bowl... that we won... again... and are on course to both secure another bowl bid and highly likely take the conference championship.

You're not being a D... but you need to stop understating UL's recent accomplishments, our university's current growth, and our obviously higher trajectory. ULM is flat-lining right now and doesn't really need more enemies in this state. You and others need to realize that Tabby butters her bread sucking up to you guys. The state reps from your area butter their bread sucking up to your locals. But when state business transpires, ULM does not need us to work deliberately to cut you off from your limited sunshine.

If you actually thought about this latest spew from the whiners about our name, you'd see that the only thing that could happen is our university administration "might" have to toss a "Lafayette" in here and there. It will not change the UL fan branding name use. In fact it will embolden us to slam it in your face. I guarantee you that all you've done or will do is to create a much more impassioned UL fan base.

[Just1More]

We have beaten you 5 times in a row, with your best player, without your best player, with our best player, without our best player... We beat you 1time without any players I think

I think they just rushed our QB and we scored again!

[CajunAmos]

True, but I keep thinking if he had left earlier would we have Hud or would we have followed the same old model and gone for another old coordinator. I'm just glad the timing worked out and we have Hud.

Probably not Hud, but probably an RCAF further along and have already have finished updated facilities.

[Turner]

Everytime a fence riding fan shows up you guys shove them off the fence.

[CajunEXPRESS]

The "root of the problem" is Dr. Authement's compromise that made Lafayette and Monroe equals on the use of the University of Louisiana.

The issue now is more about marketing/branding which can operate on the fringes of the law.

Can you imagine what would be happening if other schools in the UL System also decided to change their name to the University of Louisiana. (University of Louisiana at Natchitoches, University of Louisiana at Grambling, University of Louisiana at Hammond ...)

Neither university had the majority support from their alumni base to change their names, and the issue was essentially decided by their presidents.

This issue may eventually be settled in the legislature or the courts - what a mess - only in Louisiana.

Who is stopping them SLU, LTUR, and the rest? It is a mess because politicians insert themselves where they should not. What if SLU decided to market itself as Louisiana Lions, and shorten to Louisiana. It is not a problem except for the participants, and therefore is not a problem, because it is absolutely self limiting.

Now you are seem to be unhappy with UL? Well I graduated at USL as well, but that was then this is now.

[USL1970]

Who is stopping them SLU, LTUR, and the rest? It is a mess because politicians insert themselves where they should not. What if SLU decided to market itself as Louisiana Lions, and shorten to Louisiana. It is not a problem except for the participants, and therefore is not a problem, because it is absolutely self limiting.

Now you are seem to be unhappy with UL? Well I graduated at USL as well, but that was then this is now.

The point is that the Authement compromise is the seed of the current issues. Instead of the compromise "preventing problems" in the future, we are now in a "problem solving" situation.

Most anybody, can solve a problem, given enough time, but the really great leaders/managers are problem preventers, with good long range planning skills. (That's why most smart parents give their kids vaccines.)

Second, if other universities follow the UL and ULM lead (although unlikely now), it would make it even more difficult for UL to be the sole "Louisiana." In the athletic polls or conference standings, you could not list Louisiana, Louisiana, Louisiana, etc. without the differentiating "at xxx". Check out the Sun Belt standings and see how our name is listed.

Why would anyone else want to be UL at xxx given the current situation? It would be a circular firing squad of all the universities in the ULS system going at each other.

Glad you graduated from USL. I am both SLI and USL.

And based on where we stand today, I am not sure that the compromise "UL name" has achieved better name recognition in athletics than if we had remained USL - but of course that is debatable, and not really relevant since we will not go back.



I sorta like the old ring of "Southwestern and Ragin Cajuns," from the Faulkinberry era. Although not likely, I am hopeful Dr. Savoie can somehow dig us out of this hole and achieve our original goal - University of Louisiana - period.

[RCAJUN90]

The "root of the problem" is Dr. Authement's compromise that made Lafayette and Monroe equals on the use of the University of Louisiana.

The issue now is more about marketing/branding which can operate on the fringes of the law.

Can you imagine what would be happening if other schools in the UL System also decided to change their name to the University of Louisiana. (University of Louisiana at Natchitoches, University of Louisiana at Grambling, University of Louisiana at Hammond ...)

Neither university had the majority support from their alumni base to change their names, and the issue was essentially decided by their presidents.

This issue may eventually be settled in the legislature or the courts - what a mess - only in Louisiana.

Northwestern uses it to an extent. About ten years ago I was in Natchitoches and there were signs something to the effect "University of Louisiana Northwestern State". It will be interesting to see how this plays out. It's not the 80's anymore. I went to the McNeese board and there's not much talk about it. It's mostly the older guys that want to turn the clock back to the 1970's. I lived in Lake Charles and sort of attended McNeese for a year. I never understood the small town mentality there. They are more than happy to pull for LSU and McNeese at the 1-AA level forever.

[Redgineer]

I think the story needed MORE pub, so the editing "error" was intentional.....

Just an opinion

Yep. The title was a blatant lie to drum up readers.