UL/Louisiana Branding

[ulforlife]

I agree LU, Louisiana University at Lafayette would be better than ULL. Lets look at it from a different point of view. There is nothing in the law that states that if we did change our name to Louisiana University at Lafayette. That we would have to abbreviate it a certain way, and we would not have to get a second school to change with us.

Neither was there the first time around, they created that rule afterward and would most likely do the same in this situation.

Louisiana University at Lafayette? So LUL? Wow that would be comical, I don't know if the old guys are aware but "lul" is a sarcastic term used in place of "lol". It is also the Dutch word for "____", as in the male organ.

There is nothing wrong with being the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The problem has been inside the university with our administration not knowing what we want to be called.

[HoustonCajun]

If we were to change to LU, in the first year we would get misidentified as Louisiana College at least as many times as we are with the Leopards. Probably more as LC resides in in this state

There is no confusion with Boston College and Boston University. As Boston College is the well known school, the reverse would apply in our case. Louisiana College is Div. III, I think. It's scores are never shown on ESPN or any other network, except in basketball and only when they play a Div. I team.

[HoustonCajun]

I agree LU, Louisiana University at Lafayette would be better than ULL. Lets look at it from a different point of view. There is nothing in the law that states that if we did change our name to Louisiana University at Lafayette. That we would have to abbreviate it a certain way, and we would not have to get a second school to change with us.

The only thing that would worry me is ULM being the only University of Louisiana, but us being Louisiana University it should not be a
problem. I don't think they would make ULM change their name.

Lets look at it a different way, how about we keep the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, athletically we just go by Louisiana or LU. It is technically the same. There is nothing in the law stating how we abbreviate our name or what we can call ourselves, except for the UL abbreviation

The law as stated requires 2 universities for the University of name along with a city tag for each. If we went to the legislature and obtained the Louisiana University name, the same law would still apply to ULM. They would have to either find another school that wanted a name change like Southeastern to UL Hammond, they could keep ULM. If no other school came forward, they would have to change their name as they would NEVER be the University of Louisiana.

Do we have a delegation strong enough to get this passed in the legislature. Will any other school care if we are Louisiana University so long as we are not the University of Louisiana and perceived to be the flagship of the UL System?

If we are not willing to take it this far, then change our abbreviation. We can't use UL. We do use UL-L, but we all hate that. So, keep it all legal and go to LU and Louisiana athletically, even if we remain officially the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Get creative and do something to get this whole thing in allignment and focus more on the LOUISIANA than Ragin Cajuns.

[BlueDawg]

Please don't go postal on me....to you Cajun fans let me first say this "It's not your fault...........it's not your fault, ______!! This is a great topic cause Your admin needs a branding class. Let me see if I got this straight.......the official name for your school is the University of Louisiana @ Lafayette or "ULL". You don't want to be called this (I guess to get more separation from ULM) so y'all want to be called "Louisiana" or "LA" now for all sports right? Cool. But y'all also want to be referred to as "UL" (even though Louisville has that title)? Your official mascot is an evil flaming cayenne pepper (pretty unique if you ask me) but y'all don't want this anymore....you want something as generic as the fleur de Lis? Your admin needs to make up their minds & don't get so sensitive when people refer to y'all by your actual school name.

[Cajun_RH]

I don't understand all of this flag ship bull. LSU and UL are in completely different University Systems. LSU @BR is the largest school in the LSU system by a long shot and UL is also the largest school in the University of Louisiana system by a long shot. No school is designated a flagship of the state by any law or otherwise and UL never claimed to be even of it's own university system.

[ULGrad@HOU]

Please don't go postal on me....to you Cajun fans let me first say this "It's not your fault...........it's not your fault, ______!! This is a great topic cause Your admin needs a branding class. Let me see if I got this straight.......the official name for your school is the University of Louisiana @ Lafayette or "ULL". You don't want to be called this (I guess to get more separation from ULM) so y'all want to be called "Louisiana" or "LA" now for all sports right? Cool. But y'all also want to be referred to as "UL" (even though Louisville has that title)? Your official mascot is an evil flaming cayenne pepper (pretty unique if you ask me) but y'all don't want this anymore....you want something as generic as the fleur de Lis? Your admin needs to make up their minds & don't get so sensitive when people refer to y'all by your actual school name.

Why do you spend so much time on the UL forum? You try to be sly with your disingenuous comments. Louisville does not have or own the title of UL, and it's not even a title. The Ragin Cajuns can and do want UL and there is nothing you can do about it. You are just going to have to live with it. Louisville can use whatever they want, it has no bearing on what we do. UT is referred to as both Tenn & Texas. You LoTech guys probably can't handle that kind of mind blowing info. You guys try this every chance you get on more than this forum, but you just look stupid doing it.

[RaginDave]

Please don't go postal on me....to you Cajun fans let me first say this "It's not your fault...........it's not your fault, ______!! This is a great topic cause Your admin needs a branding class. Let me see if I got this straight.......the official name for your school is the University of Louisiana @ Lafayette or "ULL". You don't want to be called this (I guess to get more separation from ULM) so y'all want to be called "Louisiana" or "LA" now for all sports right? Cool. But y'all also want to be referred to as "UL" (even though Louisville has that title)? Your official mascot is an evil flaming cayenne pepper (pretty unique if you ask me) but y'all don't want this anymore....you want something as generic as the fleur de Lis? Your admin needs to make up their minds & don't get so sensitive when people refer to y'all by your actual school name.

DueBlawg, this has been discussed at naseum. Louisville is UofL and who cares if there would be two UL's. There are plenty of schools that have this problem and no one gets them confused.

UT--Texas and Tennessee, Tulsa
UA--Akron, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona
ASU--Arkansas State, Alabama State, Arizona State
TSU--Texas State, Tennessee State
RU--Rutgers, Radford
UW--Washington, Wisconsin
OSU--Oregon State, Ohio State, Oklahoma State
WSU--Witchita State, Washington State
TU--Tulane, Towson
CSU--Cleveland State, Chicago State
MSU--McNeese State, Michigan State, Mississippi State, Missouri State
FSU--Fresno State, Florida State
Tech--La Tech, Ga Tech, Va Tech

I could go on forever, but I think you get the point.

[Hammer58]

Please don't go postal on me....to you Cajun fans let me first say this "It's not your fault...........it's not your fault, ______!! This is a great topic cause Your admin needs a branding class. Let me see if I got this straight.......the official name for your school is the University of Louisiana @ Lafayette or "ULL". You don't want to be called this (I guess to get more separation from ULM) so y'all want to be called "Louisiana" or "LA" now for all sports right? Cool. But y'all also want to be referred to as "UL" (even though Louisville has that title)? Your official mascot is an evil flaming cayenne pepper (pretty unique if you ask me) but y'all don't want this anymore....you want something as generic as the fleur de Lis? Your admin needs to make up their minds & don't get so sensitive when people refer to y'all by your actual school name.

Louisville owns "UL" about as much as Georgia Tech owns "Tech". So I guess you rednecks have to fond another brand. I know it originated on this forum but I don't think anyone would mind you appropriating "LowTech" to ease the confusion with Tech.

[Ragin9221]

If we are able to just get Louisiana University approved I say go for it.

[BlueDawg]

Why do you spend so much time on the UL forum? You try to be sly with your disingenuous comments. Louisville does not have or own the title of UL, and it's not even a title. The Ragin Cajuns can and do want UL and there is nothing you can do about it. You are just going to have to live with it. Louisville can use whatever they want, it has no bearing on what we do. UT is referred to as both Tenn & Texas. You LoTech guys probably can't handle that kind of mind blowing info. You guys try this every chance you get on more than this forum, but you just look stupid doing it.

You can call me anything you want but y'all are the ones that can't come to a consensus with your "branding". Next time conference realignment rolls around hopefully y'all will have figured it out.