Moving Backwards UL-Lafayette

[Bankruptcyman]

And...you love him?

I have known Bobby for years. He is a good guy and loves sports. We have had many debates over the years (most of them when UL was a terrible football team). He is taking notice as are all the sportswriters in the State. He likes to stir the pot and will not pass up an opportunity to do so.

[Boomer]

I have known Bobby for years. He is a good guy and loves sports. We have had many debates over the years (most of them when UL was a terrible football team). He is taking notice as are all the sportswriters in the State. He likes to stir the pot and will not pass up an opportunity to do so.

---Oh yea I like him too and talked with him for about 20 years at OHS---But we all know what we don't like and that is his sneaky put downs of UL as he stirs the pot!!!!

[donallen]

Well Don...waiting for your rebuttal.

It's not a debate. I want the same thing you do but it won't happen by demand. You can't demand respect - which is what this is about - it has to be given. Threats don't work well when you have little or no stroke to back it up. I don't think the rest of the state outside of Baton Rouge cares much about this issue so maybe it makes sense not to go out of our way to alienate everyone else - Tulane, Tech, McNeese, ULM - needlessly.

Any name change will have to go through the legislature, right? The legislature is made up of mostly lawyers and the majority of them graduated from - wait for it - LSU. You see the problem. The only way to make this happen is to convince the purple and gold we're not a threat...which we're not. They will always have more legal stroke, more money and by association with the SEC, more prestige. Fine. We don't want what they have. Convince them.

[Hammer58]

It's not a debate. I want the same thing you do but it won't happen by demand. You can't demand respect - which is what this is about - it has to be given. Threats don't work well when you have little or no stroke to back it up. I don't think the rest of the state outside of Baton Rouge cares much about this issue so maybe it makes sense not to go out of our way to alienate everyone else - Tulane, Tech, McNeese, ULM - needlessly.

Any name change will have to go through the legislature, right? The legislature is made up of mostly lawyers and the majority of them graduated from - wait for it - LSU. You see the problem. The only way to make this happen is to convince the purple and gold we're not a threat...which we're not. They will always have more legal stroke, more money and by association with the SEC, more prestige. Fine. We don't want what they have. Convince them.

You, like everyone else (moanroe, kvetch, northwestern, everyone in Lake Cucked), have missed the point all of us and the University have been making. This is not about changing the name of the University. Nor does it have anything to do with a flagship status ( a claim or goal never made by THIS University ). It is simply about how we would like to be referred to for athletics.

As far as alienating kvetch, moanroe and Lake Cucked those _______s have been hating us for decades, long before the name issue so ____ 'em.

[CajunRage]

It's not a debate. I want the same thing you do but it won't happen by demand. You can't demand respect - which is what this is about - it has to be given. Threats don't work well when you have little or no stroke to back it up. I don't think the rest of the state outside of Baton Rouge cares much about this issue so maybe it makes sense not to go out of our way to alienate everyone else - Tulane, Tech, McNeese, ULM - needlessly.

Any name change will have to go through the legislature, right? The legislature is made up of mostly lawyers and the majority of them graduated from - wait for it - LSU. You see the problem. The only way to make this happen is to convince the purple and gold we're not a threat...which we're not. They will always have more legal stroke, more money and by association with the SEC, more prestige. Fine. We don't want what they have. Convince them.

You sir, are an idiot.

[VObserver]

You, like everyone else (moanroe, kvetch, northwestern, everyone in Lake Cucked), have missed the point all of us and the University have been making. This is not about changing the name of the University. Nor does it have anything to do with a flagship status ( a claim or goal never made by THIS University ). It is simply about how we would like to be referred to for athletics.

But Hammer, this is Louisiana. Don't you know that the university with the best football team is the de facto flagship of the UL system? Especially if that school is also called by a non-regional name, Like Louisiana or maybe Louisiana Tech?

[Turbine]

You sir, are an idiot.

No he isn't, he has a viewpoint and expressed it.

[Hammer58]

But Hammer, this is Louisiana. Don't you know that the university with the best football team is the de facto flagship of the UL system? Especially if that school is also called by a non-regional name, Like Louisiana or maybe Louisiana Tech?

Well, there certainly is documented evidence of Kvetch staking claim to being the flagship

[donallen]

You sir, are an idiot.

Only for taking part in this thread. Absolutely.

But if it's in the sports section, only Louisiana or UL is acceptable? And if it's in the business section or on the front page, Louisiana-Lafayette or ULL is appropriate? Athletics only, that's your point? You think that'll fly?

[VObserver]

Only for taking part in this thread. Absolutely.

But if it's in the sports section, only Louisiana or UL is acceptable? And if it's in the business section or on the front page, Louisiana-Lafayette or ULL is appropriate? Athletics only, that's your point? You think that'll fly?

Except for the "UL" [which the University has never requested] that is exactly what has been requested, and it is also exactly what has received approval from the UL System Board. So in that sense, it has already "flown". As to what appears in the media, what they call us on the Business page or the front page is entirely up to them and is constitutionally protected, as you well know; the University has made no request in that regard.

[johnnyusa3000]

It's not a debate. I want the same thing you do but it won't happen by demand. You can't demand respect - which is what this is about - it has to be given. Threats don't work well when you have little or no stroke to back it up. I don't think the rest of the state outside of Baton Rouge cares much about this issue so maybe it makes sense not to go out of our way to alienate everyone else - Tulane, Tech, McNeese, ULM - needlessly.

Any name change will have to go through the legislature, right? The legislature is made up of mostly lawyers and the majority of them graduated from - wait for it - LSU. You see the problem. The only way to make this happen is to convince the purple and gold we're not a threat...which we're not. They will always have more legal stroke, more money and by association with the SEC, more prestige. Fine. We don't want what they have. Convince them.

Convince them that we are not a threat? How pathetic! Threatening what they have is exactly what we want to do. They have fans that we want to pull over to our side. That is the only way we will grow. You may prefer to live on your knees and try not to offend their fragile ego, but I would like to show them that we will not "know our place". Keep pushing and don't bow down to them. That is how you get respect!

[johnnyusa3000]

I can even speak about this topic from my personal experiences. I work in Houma. When I came to work here a couple of years ago, most of the people here had never really seen a "radical" Ragin' Cajun. I did not hide my feeling about UBR (The University of Baton Rouge). This is what I call them in response to us being called Lafayette. A few UBR fans even took shots at UL and I did not lay down, but threw even more back in their faces about UBR. They respected that and now a few people here have come to games and even more talk about how they watch our games on TV. Fans can be won if we show them we have something to offer. The rest will follow in time.