2013 Staking a Claim for Louisiana

[billbeck451]

Dr A presided over the first name change if my memory is correct, and it got screwed up, plus he was a horrible college president. If he had not held the campus in the dark ages for so many years with his refusal to spend money on the basics such as lodging and parking there is no telling where UL would be today

[Boomer]

To be fair in Dr Ray's comments--positive is that we should be UL and that it is legal for our athletic teams to be called Louisiana---negative is that we have to be careful and although he probably is correct some things should just be left out!!!

[zephyr]

They know we have won the name battle when ESPN announced they would use Louisiana. ULM in the beginning thought they would steal the name.

I saw the maroon version of this helmet on twitter. Jeff Horchak, a local sportscaster was retweeting this photo from a ULM loser. Its hard to get anywhere on this issue when the local media is not in support

[Boomer]

Add LSUE and LSUA to the feeding system of UL!!! BTW--just saw where there will be thousands of jobs being added to plants in the S'West Louisiana area like Cameron Parish all the way to Jeff Davis Parish---ergo increased enrollment---and meanwhile along !-20 a dwindling demographic outlook continues!!

[RaginScotsman]

At what point in the article did ol' Ray say we "may have gone too far?"

[RaginCajun23]

This Post on the Universities Facebook Page.....

[Boomer]

OK--so this is solved by the following:::::: It has come to our attention that there is a battle brewing between 2 schools in the Louisiana system about name calling and the current law on the names of the 2 schools and their use ---so in all aspects we now demand that the name of the city location be added to avoid future confrontations---hell the ___ holes might even force us to go back to USL and N'EAST!!!! So frustrating!!! Never enhance the situation by a more prestigious name in this case for UL but lets see how we can stop their growth , recognition, and future research funding!!!

[Cajunrunner]

Ray A. and Ray B. Both stayed too damn long. Both cared about playing politics and being liked in the community than being aggressive to help our athletics stay competitive. To hell with both of them.

[Turbine]

Send that link to Chris Cox at 103.7 The Game....oops that should be Christopher since that is what the law says his name is via that legal document known as his birth certificate. I sure don't want to do anything illegal like call him Chris.

I doubt her parents named he Tabby either.

[tdncz]

As I mentioned yesterday, RIGHT NOW IT IS NOT ILLEGAL to make these references.
My concern is that the coalition of Norther LA, NOLA, and BR Legislators come to recognize this fact and move to plug these "not illegal" references we are trying to legitimately promote with a "clarifying" piece of legislation that only legislators in South LA (and even then not all) would oppose.
Then we are boxed in.
We need to come up with strategy quickly -- this story is getting legs.......

[Turbine]

If any legislative action is taken, we will lose.

We need to hope this whole thing blows over. Because every legislator from BR, Lake Charles, Shreveport and Monroe will vote to against us.

You can't make anyone (even Martin Hall) use their full legal name, every utterance.

Even the very law that started all this stated "University of Louisiana System" hereby referred to as "System"

There's ideal world and real world usages. Using "System" was the real world.

The legislature would never dream of making the stenographer type "University of Louisiana System" every utterance.

ps but somehow La Louisiane thinks every utterance is required.

[Zeebart21]

Wont happen.

Z