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

[cajunhawk]

Let's all take a deep breath...and calm the ____ down.

[cajungrad00]

Here is some wishful thinking:

Maybe T-Joe doesn't care what the Sunbelt's media guide may say because he knows that we won't be in it next year!!

[Turbine]

Here is some wishful thinking:

Maybe T-Joe doesn't care what the Sunbelt's media guide may say because he knows that we won't be in it next year!!

A get out of jail free card for sure.

[CajunAmos]

Read the law, Hyphens are illegal for any full blown representation of the school. They gave one single exception included the full blown representation of the name using initials.

Louisiana-Lafayette is illegal as well.

The way it is written "at" is the most important aspect of the law.

Actually, we're not calling ourselves the University of Louisiana, we're using UL.

Maybe we should have told the conference UoL.

[CrazyCajun]

Or may we should have told them to use LOL

[fanof71]

Were the orders given when the SBC needed , the various name abbreviations and school preferences. (a side question, did both Arky State and App State go with ASU?) At least that's the impression I'm getting from looking at these emails from the C&M department leader. It's "we" did this, "we" requested that, "The University" asked, etc. Who is this "we" ? Does that include El Presidente? Or is the "we" designating his department only? Because, other than El Presidente signing off on these items and giving approval to other schools name preferences, I believe it all went down without his approval or input until it was too late to react. I think C&M got caught playing around between the NO Bowl and the holidays and the assignment, which Joe had handed off to them, was forgotten about until it was too late to change anything (Hence the UL-L requested footnote, the unlawful use of ULL, and their assumption that the SBC would well, just include Louisiana along with Ragin Cajuns when the word Mascot was uttered. Obviously Louisiana Ragin Cajuns was not submitted if it was not recognized as the chosen mascot. Someone had to F that up pretty good for it not to be recognized. I guess "we" is to blame here too.

El Presidente gets request, sends request on to C&M, C&M drops the ball, making mistake after mistake, after oversight and assumptions, SBC says where's your stuff, we're ready for approvals....El Presidente panics, says let me see what you have, we'll have to go with this and learn a lesson, C&M sends in the needed information to SBC, Everything is approved by other university prezidents, Boom, Done Deal.

While I agree there needed to be some sort of name continuity with all of the SBC schools, it screams that the school with the biggest name challenge is the school who made the biggest blunders. In news gathering, this is known as a style book.

I took the first PR 101 class offered years ago at USL. Virginia Cromwell taught the class. She had an expression, that Great Public Relations is simply the truth, well told. Seems we're getting neither....the truth or the information being well told.

El Presidente will live to fight another day. The scam C&M office will rightfully fall on the sword this time.

[ULalum06]

if somehow, someway we could

(SunBelt sucks + CUSA spotted on campus + Black isn't a school color + Let's go independent + I hate scott farmer + WeAreLouisiana + Benson sucks + corndogs + Terry Bradshaw is a racist + adidas sucks + suckitHoax) / 0 = _____________________________

[apb]

Turbine, the reason the name issue stuff doesn't move Martin Hall the way it does us is that the Academic side is perfectly happy with the status quo.

However, the one name change that could get traction within the Academic corridors is Universite' des Acadiens.

Dr. Ancelet would lead the charge with me right behind him.

My vote goes 1000% behind this one. Why we tried for the other name and not this from the beginning shows the lack of vision from leadership. We have a unique region that exist no where else and we let it go to waste.

[Turbine]

Interesting questions.

The only thing I would add is ULL is unwanted, not unlawful.

UL-L is unlawful

[Frenchie35]

@Frenchie, probably an error on your part. Only Turbine has that power, or some really cleaver hacker.

Well after all this crap I guess my fingers were a little excited on the key-board......but I did mean to say "Louisiana Lafayette"....

[fanof71]

You are, as always, correct sir...

[Hammer58]

Were the orders given when the SBC needed , the various name abbreviations and school preferences. (a side question, did both Arky State and App State go with ASU?) At least that's the impression I'm getting from looking at these emails from the C&M department leader. It's "we" did this, "we" requested that, "The University" asked, etc. Who is this "we" ? Does that include El Presidente? Or is the "we" designating his department only? Because, other than El Presidente signing off on these items and giving approval to other schools name preferences, I believe it all went down without his approval or input until it was too late to react. I think C&M got caught playing around between the NO Bowl and the holidays and the assignment, which Joe had handed off to them, was forgotten about until it was too late to change anything (Hence the UL-L requested footnote, the unlawful use of ULL, and their assumption that the SBC would well, just include Louisiana along with Ragin Cajuns when the word Mascot was uttered. Obviously Louisiana Ragin Cajuns was not submitted if it was not recognized as the chosen mascot. Someone had to F that up pretty good for it not to be recognized. I guess "we" is to blame here too.

El Presidente gets request, sends request on to C&M, C&M drops the ball, making mistake after mistake, after oversight and assumptions, SBC says where's your stuff, we're ready for approvals....El Presidente panics, says let me see what you have, we'll have to go with this and learn a lesson, C&M sends in the needed information to SBC, Everything is approved by other university prezidents, Boom, Done Deal.

While I agree there needed to be some sort of name continuity with all of the SBC schools, it screams that the school with the biggest name challenge is the school who made the biggest blunders. In news gathering, this is known as a style book.

I took the first PR 101 class offered years ago at USL. Virginia Cromwell taught the class. She had an expression, that Great Public Relations is simply the truth, well told. Seems we're getting neither....the truth or the information being well told.

El Presidente will live to fight another day. The scam C&M office will rightfully fall on the sword this time.

Karl Benson has been laying the conferences use of UL Lafayette and ULL at the feet of T-Joe for several months now in correspondence with several of us on this board