2013 Staking a Claim for Louisiana

[Hammer58]

Because both sides are pretty damn unhappy with the current arrangement, and have an incentive to work together to change things for the better.

I don't know what the answer is but I think we can come up with something better than what we have today.

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.

[BirdofParadise]

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.

[CajunFun]

She just wrote her team's death sentence. HUD is going to make them say our name.

I hope our kids at the ULM game start a chant or cheer based on "Make them say our name," or just "Say our name," or something like that.

[timlan2057]

The name game between the University of Louisiana at Monroe and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette was originally intended to benefit both schools.

But now, it appears one of the schools seeks to establish itself as "the University of Louisiana" by dropping any reference to Lafayette in apparent violation of the state law that established the University of Louisiana system.

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I see the Alexandria Clown Talk also carried this article.

Not surprising--the two towns with the most redneck idiots in the state ... and that's saying something.

[CajunRebel]

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.

[cajunhawk]

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.

Get some rest Jaybird...double Tuesday night traveling has got to wear on you. Got a long weekend and a home stretch.

[Turbine]

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.

Good game Jay.

[CajunFun]

I really don't care much about the whole name thing.

But F____ Monroe. Sit home while we're bowling, you bunch of sour-pusses. Same for the Technecks.

You mispelled 'Teckneck'.



Poor ULM, they really are the victims here. We started this whole thing, and they have taken the high road all along.

[CajunRebel]

Rebel is a bad name, should be CajunAppeasement

See above.

I don't want us to be called the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Something needs to change. We don't have to bow down to ULM, we just have to come up with a solution that they can live with so we can peruse our own goals.

[tdncz]

I think this is my final post on this issue.

In MY opinion:
we have two choices:
1. Carry on the way we have in all regards and continue to ask and influence media outlets to call us "Louisiana" or "UL". This, I think will eventually come back to haunt us because I honestly believe we will face an eventual amendment to the 1998 law initiated by a coalition of Northern LA, BR, and NOLA legislators for the reasons previously discussed.


2. Double down and full-court press this issue even harder (if that is at all possible) to speed up this transformation where it gets to a point (quickly) where ESPN, Fox Sports, CBS, etc are calling us Louisiana for ALL sports. This would make it much more difficult in the court of public opinion (the most important thing to any politician since this = votes) to change us back.
Again, as a lifetime supporter of UL and Louisiana, I am concerned

[Duggie35]

We need to get together with them and come up with a solution we can both agree on, because as things stand today neither school is happy.

We are happy! They are the ones that seem to have a problem.

[CajunNation]

Is it just me?

Am I the only one who thinks we should have one branding initiative above all others. WE ARE LOUISIANA.

There should be T-shirts available in every outlet we can think of which have in big, bold, block lettering, WE ARE LOUISIANA.

The shirts most worn at football games should read WE ARE LOUISIANA.

There should be signage everywhere around the athletic complex which reads WE ARE LOUISIANA.

The athletic buses should read WE ARE LOUISIANA.

The equipment trailers should read WE ARE LOUISIANA.

There should be a WE ARE LOUISIANA chant by the cheerleaders and the fans many times during all sporting events.

etc. etc. etc.