2013 Staking a Claim for Louisiana

[moorecajun]

WTF is this Bill Decker?

Isn't he part of the law firm, Black & Decker?

[Turbine]

Opening paragraph "or whatever you call it"

A humongous dig trip.

Closing paragraph "let’s be honest — sticking it to LSU"

A humongous wig flip.

[moorecajun]

This is all good. We need to have this fight once and for all, and we need to have it out in public. It needs to grab the attention of people outside of Louisiana and have them ask questions about why a legislature is so interested in a name and why they are averse to healthy academic competition between LSU and other state universities. Flagship status is anti-competitive.

It is much harder to kill your neighbor's barking dog when the whole neighborhood is watching. If this fight is contained to Martin Hall and the state capitol, we will find ourselves under the boot again. If so, it may be time to pursue the UofA or AU idea. Put the confusion with ULM and the Lafayette Leopards out of its misery.

That's what I say ... let's show the world what stupid things happen in this state; maybe the stupid will then go away!

[cajunhawk]

Time to run this guy out of town on a rail. We need to flood the Advertiser with complaints on the guy.

With how the Advertiser is handling this stupid ____...I'm hoping John George's brings The Advocate to Lafayette to put a bullet in the Advertisers brain.

[moorecajun]

Opening paragraph "or whatever you call it"

A humongous dig trip.

Closing paragraph "let’s be honest — sticking it to LSU"

A humongous wig flip.

That's the problem with most of these people ... this has NOTHING to do with lsu and EVERYTHING to do with UL ... it is a mentality that is hard to overcome!

[zephyr]

Sticking it to LSU......Now that's journalism there. Complete ignorance is not always bliss

[Turbine]

Does Monroe Gannett still do the headlines?

I remember Josh saying something to that effect.

[cajunhawk]

Now that we are in an interconnected and always on media cycle...the legislature cannot disseminate the real message of how petty and under handed this is. We do need to open this can of worms...and let the country see it in all it's idiotic glory.

[CajunZ1]

People who claim to be "above the fray" in these situations usually end up having just as strong of an opinion as the side they're trying to discredit.

It's so simple. We are the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Call us Louisiana, or Ragin Cajuns, if you don't mind when refering to our athletic programs. If you do mind, then dont! There's no law issue with that request.

"University of" Louisiana is not allowed under the law unless the city tag is used afterwards.

This is not hard. Right?

[Boomer]

I really think that this is a Gannet scheme to drum up something to sell papers---I think they knew in Laf and MON what they were doing with the Tabby Cat and maybe Buckley and of course Pecker Decker---Sorry about the ad Homs but this does not have to be what they are making of it and can only hurt UL---Now they even bring back Dr RAY who is the equivalent of John McCain--just shut up!!!

[CajunZ1]

Time to run this guy out of town on a rail. We need to flood the Advertiser with complaints on the guy.

He would love that. When someone takes the "enough already" angle like Mr. Decker, angry reader letters only serve to bolster his POV.

It's a great journalism trick. Don't respond, I win. Respond, and now you look silly.

[billbeck451]

Most people know that both Tech and ULM were political favors doled out earlier politicians, especially the placing of the states pharm school in northern Louisiana. We also know that between the two schools you couldn't make a decent mid sized college. If Louisiana really wanted to make any headway in education it would demote some of these small 4 yr colleges to junior colleges, or satellite campuses of other colleges. There is no other state that I can think of that has colleges in every bump in the road across the state. An ideal picture would be a combining of La Tech and ULM, a combining of McNeese, Nicholls and UL into one college, combining of LSU and Southeastern, a combining of Grambling and Southern into one and UNO and any others that I missed would be folded into where ever they fit. This would result in a great savings for the state and all schools would benefit from the savings realized by not having so many useless salaries.

Pipe dreams probably yes, but in an economic reality that most states are facing a pipe dream that should be explored