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

[Cajunsmike]

I have a question for Jay. Will he inform Commissioner Benson that alumni, students, fans, our coaches in many instances will continue to use Louisiana or UL when referring to our university. Will he also tell him that the ultimate goal is to be widely known by those terms. He probably does not need to tell him that as he likely already knows. Of course we need to leave the league to advance that goal and Jay said yesterday on his show we are working on improving our conference situation. I suggest our leaders make a more public admission we are doing that to the fan base (similar to what La Tech did). If that bothers the other Sun Belt members, so be it.

[Turbine]

Los Angeles is L.A.

Postal Service for Louisiana is LA

[Cajunologist]

ULA violates the law? ok, What if LSU-Alexandria one day becomes UL-Alexandria, Would ULA not be allowed for them? Could the current law ever be changed so that the city tag or region be acceptable? That would make it possible for us to be ULA. I'm just so tired of all this crap. This school is over 100 years old and we are still trying to figure out what its called. Just pick something and be done with it already! What is worse about this 'new' abbrevation is that I've never seen 'UL-L' written like that before. Has anyone? This is a totally new way of writing it to add to more confusion.

[KajunKrazy]

my wife recently learned where Auburn is located because of their football success.

And your point is? Thats not comparing apples to apples. Next time UL is in the SEC and competing for a national championship we will compare ourselves to AU. Having said that you cannot compare Auburn to Acadiana. Last I checked Auburn Al is a city in Al. Acadiana is not a city. If you want to be called Lafayette like Auburn, Louisville, Memphis... thats a whole different argument. But as I originally stated no one outside of La knows that we have a geographical area called Acadiana. That would be a branding nightmare.

[CajunEXPRESS]

The A would stand for Alexandria just like the M for MoanROW, and the L for Lafayette.

The university knows exactly what it wants, the state keeps throwing up roadblocks. Sometimes we hit the damned things.

[Cajunsmike]

One more note, let's hope the Cajun basketball team does well in the conference tournament. If we are lucky enough to be in the finals it would be great if our fan base had a multitude of signs simply saying University of Louisiana or just Louisiana. We would need to have enough so as the ESPN cameras could not miss them. Now the university may not feel it is legal to help with the distribution of those but they would likely not object to fans taking the lead on the effort. Anyone have printing connections were they could work to making that happen?

[Cajunrunner]

well lets not forget how T-Joe was crowned. We so said had a nation wide search ( yea right) and the best candidate just happen to be from the Raymond Blanco tree . Remember how we ended up with the preacher who sucked so bad ? Ultimate interest at Martin Hall is self preservation. Scott Farmer is simply a lackey to take the heat.

Careful! I believe I said the same thing on this board several years ago when Savoie was first named President...and some didn't like it.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Mike that will be seen, but unseen by the TV audience. Not going to make a blip on anything. What fans signs say do not register for more than the amount of time it takes to read the damned signs. I like the idea though for a different reason than I think you are suggesting.

[fpc4life99]

Jay for President(of the University that is) or AD when Farmer is fired later this year!!

[Cajunsmike]

Mike that will be seen, but unseen by the TV audience. Not going to make a blip on anything. What fans signs say do not register for more than the amount of time it takes to read the damned signs. I like the idea though for a different reason than I think you are suggesting.

The conference officials and likely fans of the other schools in the league would see the signs and get the message. Of course the basketball team would have to make the finals for that to occur. That would mean playing better on the road than we have the last couple of games in order to garner a good seed.