Dan is a company man no matter the company and he toes the line on the safe side
I've heard (and have recordings of) ESPN broadcasters mixing it up and using "Louisiana" (while covering Sun Belt contracted games) so I know there is leeway.
Besides Karl Benson "said" UL could do what it wanted and the Sun Belt would follow suit. So whoever Dan is getting his marching orders from must have missed the memo.
ps Not Dan's fault, seems that no one in the Sun Belt got the message from Karl. Probably related to or brought on by the self inflicted illegal hyphen debacle that happened earlier this year.
jmo