2013 Staking a Claim for Louisiana

[SlappyCajun]

LoL bro. You sir are WAAaaay too uptight & need to chill the ____ out. I never said y'all should know your place. I also didn't blame y'all for the name change, just curious the reason why it happened in the first place.

To answer the orignial question. Our president at the time thought the double directional schools sounded like community colleges. And, he proved to be correct. Off the top of my head, I know Southwest Texas State became Texas State and Southwest Missouri State became Missouri State. We tried to drop the Southwest and become Louisiana and were denied.

[Hammer58]

A very simple and straight forward question: On April 17, 1984 it was voted by a margin of 17-1 to change the name from "University of Southwest Louisiana" to "university of Louisiana". That same year the diploma's read "University of Louisiana". On May 22, 1984 some P-OFF usla&m alumni and district judge Brown (alumni) decided to take up the issue and have the name changed back to USL. The La. Supreme court refuse to take up the matter....Then the state legislators decided to have a law implemented that they would be the body to say what the names of our university could be....the law was after the facts....so how can they say to this university what you can be called.....mainly after the name had already been voted on and passed....am I making an sense here? How can you make a law years or even days later after something was voted on and passed legally?

In addition, the procedure the University used to change the name was the same that every other school, including Louisiana Tech, used to change theirs. To void our name change the judge used twisted logic that would have made a pretzel and Justice John Roberts proud. He reasoned that the constitution gave the power to create a new university only yo the legislature (ulm was not created by the legislature) and changing a name in effect created a new university so therefore by his logic the Board of a Trustees (prior name of ULS Board) could not grant the name change and "create" a new university.

[Bankruptcyman]

So to support the authors premise in the article, the author quotes fans. What kind of support is that. I am sure there will soon be a poll in Monroe about what we should be called and the author will use that to further support her claim.

[nuke dawg]

Here is the one thing I have always honestly wondered. How would you guys feel if it was mutually (it won't happen legislatively, I realize this is an hypothesis) agreed that your university can legally be called the University of Louisiana but the system name is change to the Louisiana Tech University System. What would your opposition be, if any?

[Hammer58]

Yeah, pretty much this.

But it was the emotion that got me.

The Advertiser has historically been pretty non-existent and even useless when it comes to the Cajusn.

To hear Foote, who has been pretty detached from the program, go off like he did was really refreshing.

His argument was pretty matter-of-fact and the only rebuttal to it can be "I don't care what the facts are, SLI should know its place."

You have to give somebody his props when its due.

Agreed. I have been critical of Foote in the past but he deserves kudos on this score.

[SlappyCajun]

Here is the one thing I have always honestly wondered. How would you guys feel if it was mutually (it won't happen legislatively, I realize this is an hypothesis) agreed that your university can legally be called the University of Louisiana but the system name is change to the Louisiana Tech University System. What would your opposition be, if any?

Interesting hypothetical. At first glance, I wouldn't like it. But, at the same time, if flagship status wasn't conferred on La Tech. I'm not sure I would really care. The system does neither one of us either favors.

[MelRock]

Here is the one thing I have always honestly wondered. How would you guys feel if it was mutually (it won't happen legislatively, I realize this is an hypothesis) agreed that your university can legally be called the University of Louisiana but the system name is change to the Louisiana Tech University System. What would your opposition be, if any?

You can call it BFU system if you want to I do not give a rats azzzz. You don't like our name do not come on our board.

#WeAreLouisiana

[Bankruptcyman]

I am really having a hard time understanding how Louisiana Ragin Cajuns creates a false image or impression of anything. Any image of one program over another can and should be decided on the field, court, diamond, pitch, course, track, etc. Who cares what you call yourself. The scoreboard will decide the only image that matters . . . Winner.

[Hammer58]

Here is the one thing I have always honestly wondered. How would you guys feel if it was mutually (it won't happen legislatively, I realize this is an hypothesis) agreed that your university can legally be called the University of Louisiana but the system name is change to the Louisiana Tech University System. What would your opposition be, if any?

How about we legally change our name to University of Louisiana and the System goes back to being the Board of Trustees? That way you don't have to worry about us being perceived as the "flagship" of the system and the reverse holds true for Tech. Keep in mind in our original quest for the name we did not ask for the a Board's name to be changed. And, unlike your administration, ours never proclaimed to be or aspired to be the "flagship".

[Turner]

Here is the one thing I have always honestly wondered. How would you guys feel if it was mutually (it won't happen legislatively, I realize this is an hypothesis) agreed that your university can legally be called the University of Louisiana but the system name is change to the Louisiana Tech University System. What would your opposition be, if any?

I wouldn't have a problem as long as pupil funding was identical.

[BamaCajun]

Here is the one thing I have always honestly wondered. How would you guys feel if it was mutually (it won't happen legislatively, I realize this is an hypothesis) agreed that your university can legally be called the University of Louisiana but the system name is change to the Louisiana Tech University System. What would your opposition be, if any?

"Hypothetically" if your university had shown the leadership our university did to move this issue along we may very well be having this argument right now. But I think it's very obvious your university would rather be followers than leaders. Thus, the "hypothetical" is not what is happening. Get on board puppy, the train has left the station.

[RedCajun]

Yeah, pretty much this.

But it was the emotion that got me.

The Advertiser has historically been pretty non-existent and even useless when it comes to the Cajusn.

To hear Foote, who has been pretty detached from the program, go off like he did was really refreshing.

His argument was pretty matter-of-fact and the only rebuttal to it can be "I don't care what the facts are, SLI should know its place."

You have to give somebody his props when its due.

Kyle and Foote was good radio. Kyle basically said we need bold leadership that is not scared to rock the boat.

[CajunJack55]

I'll leave that to you and your buddies.

Tabby and I have an agreement we don't talk about the name issue.

My admiration for Tabby and how she's handled her health issues surpasses even the name issue.

Jay, I hope you talk about this a bit on your show today. Just because you have respect for Tabby personally does not mean you can't rebut the trash that is coming out of her mouth. She should not get a pass and they should be called out for this. Obviously it doesn't have to be as "classy" as us forum posters lol.

[Turner]

I just wish that he would talk more about the skull dragging that the cajuns just put on instead of this...and ULM should be talking about trying to right the ship and get to .500...this is getting to be a crazy issue thats taking up a lot of attention

If there was a game saturday you wouldn't see this.

[CajunJack55]

If there was a game saturday you wouldn't see this.

True, but what is Monroe's excuse?