The Name Issue discussed on WWL today

[Zeebart21]

It has been talked about ad nauseam for thirty years. It is what it is, and it will never be what we want it to be. Constantly making an issue of our name has reached the point of absurdity, as well as embarrassment. The casual fan in Louisiana, outside of Acadiana, is an LSU fan. We simply do not have the needed statewide support to win the name issue battle. If what happened at the ULM game didn't open your eyes as to just how hopeless a cause the name issue is, then nothing will.

An embarrassment to who?

Z

[Hammer58]

An embarrassment to who?

Z

So I guess we should just know our place?

[jllanclos]

It has been talked about ad nauseam for thirty years. It is what it is, and it will never be what we want it to be. Constantly making an issue of our name has reached the point of absurdity, as well as embarrassment. The casual fan in Louisiana, outside of Acadiana, is an LSU fan. We simply do not have the needed statewide support to win the name issue battle. If what happened at the ULM game didn't open your eyes as to just how hopeless a cause the name issue is, then nothing will.

It seems CBS and FOX Sports disagree with you. From the looks of it, this could matter a lot in March.

[billbeck451]

It seems CBS and FOX Sports disagree with you. From the looks of it, this could matter a lot in March.

what happens in March?

[CrazyCajun]

March madness which is on cbs... Not espn, if we make the tournament, should be listed as Louisiana.

[Turbine]

It has been talked about ad nauseam for thirty years. It is what it is, and it will never be what we want it to be. Constantly making an issue of our name has reached the point of absurdity, as well as embarrassment. The casual fan in Louisiana, outside of Acadiana, is an LSU fan. We simply do not have the needed statewide support to win the name issue battle. If what happened at the ULM game didn't open your eyes as to just how hopeless a cause the name issue is, then nothing will.

I respect your opinion, but and however, except for the timeline and the ULM game situation being an eye opener, I simply disagree with everything you said.

Besides sports, a better frontal lobe marketing opportunity hasn't been invented. I equate dropping the name issue with those who said UL should drop down to D1aa when the team was losing.

jmo

[Hammer58]

I respect your opinion, but and however, except for the timeline and the ULM game situation being an eye opener, I simply disagree with everything you said.

Besides sports, a better frontal lobe marketing opportunity hasn't been invented. I equate dropping the name issue with those who said UL should drop down to D1aa when the team was losing.

jmo

Well put, Turb. Just think where we would be had we listened to those sages back then. Rather than looking forward to Hud taking us to our third straight Bowl, we would be getting giddy at the possibility of Matt Viator putting his name in the hat for our Head Coaching vacancy.

[fanof71]

ok Oiler, look at it this way, just for laughs....Name: Oiler, Big O, Oiley, Oiler@Raginpagin, Raginpagin-oiler, O.IL.-raginpagin....now, you need to have one to represent your business side and one to represent your warm and fuzzy side. You can only have 2, one formal and one not so formal, so that people will recognize what you represent. You pick the 2 you like....Oiler for your business brand and Oiley to use as a brand for your fun side. However, the neighborhood calls you Big O....you hate Big O. It says nothing about who or what you are. Years pass with much confussion, now the whole oil field calls you the Big O. You can only get a few friends to call you Oiley as they see the value and respect your fun, warm and fuzzy side. What would you do to correct the city from calling you Big O? Same thing.....with the University's name.
I heard Oiler@raginpagin just won the lottery.....who?
I heard Big O was arrested for starting a peaceful riot....who is that?
Oiler@Raginpagin won the office BBQ competition....great, never heard of them...Oh, you mean Big O?
Get It?

[fanof71]

ok Oiler, look at it this way, just for laughs....Name: Oiler, Big O, Oiley, Oiler@Raginpagin, Raginpagin-oiler, O.IL.-raginpagin....now, you need to have one to represent your business side and one to represent your warm and fuzzy side. You can only have 2, one formal and one not so formal, so that people will recognize what you represent. You pick the 2 you like....Oiler for your business brand and Oiley to use as a brand for your fun side. However, the neighborhood calls you Big O....you hate Big O. It says nothing about who or what you are. Years pass with much confussion, now the whole oil field calls you the Big O. You can only get a few friends to call you Oiley as they see the value and respect your fun, warm and fuzzy side. What would you do to correct the city from calling you Big O? Same thing.....with the University's name.
I heard Oiler@raginpagin just won the lottery.....who?
I heard Big O was arrested for starting a peaceful riot....who is that?
Oiler@Raginpagin won the office BBQ competition....great, never heard of them...Oh, you mean Big O?
Get It?

[Oiler]

An embarrassment to who?

Z

To anyone who thinks that if we haven't succeeded with the name change in thirty years, we are not going to. The majority of the people in our state simply do not want us to become known as Louisiana. Nothing we have done has put a dent in their opposition to it. I just think that there are more productive ways to spend one's energy in support of UL than beating this dead horse.