2014 Branding Fiasco: UL-Lafayette or UL-L (SBC Reference Guide)

[Duggie35]

Jay has a firm grip on his end of the rope!

[ulforlife]

Not on BEV today....apparently an e-mail response was not good enough for him and he is out getting answers...Ryan says he will be calling in later...go get em Jay.

Jay said yesterday on his show that we would be out the rest of the week. He didn't say for what but I believe the basketball road schedule is picking up

[Lexhead]

Jay has a firm grip on his end of the rope!

The END of the rope? Chumps like me are at the end of the rope. Jay has worked his way to the middle of the rope and has one hand firmly wrapped around the rope and the other hand reaching for the throat of the guy trying to take the rope away ....

[Duggie35]

I agree with Jay. LA would have been the best choice as a two letter designation.

Especially since the SBC has accepted our official nickname as "Louisiana Ragin Cajun's"!!! LA seems like a no brainer to me. It meets all the SBC criteria and is simply the short version of Louisiana which the SBC and UL say is an acceptable reference.

[Turbine]

Especially since the SBC has accepted our official nickname as "Louisiana Ragin Cajun's"!!! LA seems like a no brainer to me. It meets all the SBC criteria and is simply the short version of Louisiana which the SBC and UL say is an acceptable reference.

Well put.

[fanof71]

If the person in charge of university branding, trademark licensing, public relations and web communications came up with this ... it is a fireable offense.

jmo

Like Trump says, "We'll be meeting in the board room tonight and somebody will be fired"....And my opinion is that this is why no one has heard anything out of El Presidente about this mess. Someones head will roll soon, then we'll hear from El Presidente, not before.

The University of Louisiana, Louisiana's university @ Lafayette

[wcd35]

Yeah, I assume he left with the basketball team this afternoon. If he did go to Martin Hall, I'd guess it was this morning.

[USL1970]

Dr. Savoie is taking his marching orders from the politicians and the regents ... he does have an opinion, but not the power to change the name ... after all, his path to the presidency was through politics & appointments and not teaching, research, and academics. He works behind the scenes and did not have anything to give or take.

[Just1More]

I'm really happy with Jay for writing this article. It's so difficult for us to get any representation as fans. I give Jay a hard time about some things, but for him to stand up for this issue makes me want to buy him a beer.

As much as I'm still irritated over this, 50% of the issue was a misrepresentation by the SBC. But the use of "UL-L" is a HUGE mistake in any capacity. That is strictly on UL. And T-Joe represents everyone at UL. He should take this personally, and handle it.

I'm not sure, if we do accomplish walking it back, that we won't leave the ugly footprints behind. There's a chance this can be walked back cleanly. I would like to think that T-Joe talks to a solid group of intelligent UL people as to how this should be handled, and get this straightened out personally with Benson, immediately.

[leeman]

Shouldn't the woman's team be Ana?

well there you go, problem solved

[I_Bleed_RED]

Even if they changed it now, the damage is done. If by some miracle they change it to ULA or LA, it will still take a long time to make up for that ____ that the SBC put out on Thursday. Personally, I say just change it to LA instead of ULA. It's consistent with our "Louisiana" brand. ULA is not and will receive a heavier resistance than LA IMO

[Just1More]

I don't think it's T-Joe's fault. He may have made a few missteps along the way (including this one) but he didn't start this mess, he inherited it.

It doesn't matter whose fault it is. T-Joe needs to personally handle cleaning this up.